Beef Tallow
I’m going to show you how to make “Liquid Gold” today otherwise known as beef tallow. If you’re the type of person who has ever saved your leftover bacon grease (or at least remember your mom and grandma doing that) and know how much flavor that adds when you cook with it – you’re going…
Pumpkin Butter
Last fall my friend Ami, sent me a jar of pumpkin butter from Trader Joes’. Apparently she didn’t think I’d actually go to the Trader Joe’s that’s less than a block away from my bus stop and buy myself a jar after hearing her rave about it. That and she’s just really nice. It was…
Duck with Cornbread Apple Dressing
We just wrapped up an entire week up in North Dakota duck hunting. There is nothing better than disconnecting for an entire week – and I mean really disconnecting, we barely get cell phone service – watching the sun rise and the sun set every day, riding around North Dakota in the beautiful Sheyenne river…
Glazed Maple Apple Blondies
Although it’s fall and apple season, one thing I like about apples is that they are available all year long without a substantial difference in quality or sweetness – unlike trying to buy strawberries in MN in the winter. That means this doesn’t have to be a seasonal treat. That said, when I’m planning treats…
Carnitas Tamale Casserole
There is this Mexican restaurant my friend Dan took me to in Phoenix and the first time he told me to get the Green Corn Tamale’s with baja sauce which was his wife’s favorite. Wow – were they good. It was my first experience with tamales and I loved them. In fact, he and other…
Slow Cooker Carnitas
Carnitas were never top of my list of things to order at Mexican restaurants until a few years ago, when I was traveling to Charlotte to facilitate new hire training. My co-trainer and I took our new class of associates out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant one night. She had been to this particular…
Slow Cooker Mango Peach Goose Rice Bowls
We had a fun year hunting early goose this year up in North Dakota. Over the summer we made our own A-frame blinds where you can sit up on comfy chairs while hunting geese, it was fun anticipating how it would go and customizing the blinds to how we like to hunt and the number…
