Food, Recipes and Cooking Stories
Drums of the Castle – Timballo di LaCasella
The following is a recent variation on an ancient recipe, created originally in Valenzano á Bari, by the family of my grandfather, Alfonso. Because the people of his village did not use surnames the way we do now, and because his family had lived within the protected domain of the local castle in Valenzano, when he,…
Read MoreRecipe: Italian Country Bread with Cannellini, Escarole and Olive Oil
Over the past few months it has been my treat to bring together in cooking classes a variety of friends, college, medical school and high school classmates, fellow writers, physicians and long-lost cousins. We remodeled an already beautiful home on Capitol Hill in Seattle by ripping out a small kitchen and creating a huge, modern…
Read MoreAnother Wild Game Recipe for Cold Winter Days – Wild Goose – 15 Bean Stew
The hunting trips in Canada during the winter are memorable because of the abundance of wild game that moves south. The geese should be harvested during their winter migration, preferably from grain fields, as they will have stored a lot of fat in preparation for their long journey. We hunted in freezing weather from…
Read MoreAnother Wild Game Recipe for Cold Winter Days – "Elk Sugo for Pasta or Bread"
Elk roast is lean and sweet and imparts a much different texture and flavor than beef. That’s why I hunt for it. Ingredients: 3-5 lbs Elk Loin Roast – you can substitute with lean beef, caribou or buffalo 4-6 Italian hot or fennel sausage, or bratwurst 1 half sweet onion, minced 20 slices of dried…
Read MoreA Wild Game Recipe for Cold Winter Days – Wild Boar (Cinghiale) Blue Corn Posole Soup with Sausage
As dangerous as a wild boar can be in the wild, I dislike hunting for them in modern “hunts” which involve the use of dogs, GPS locators and motorized vehicles that keep the hunter far away and high above the tusks of the angry animal. That was the way I experienced it at least in…
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