It was a very special dinner. It was Christmas, but it wasn’t a Christmas dinner. Also, this was not a reindeer. The special part was that it was the feast of winter, which goes by many names all over the world, but which is always observed at around the time of the winter solstice. The …
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oysters; seared venison; sweet potato frites; baby brassica
It would have been a pretty interesting menu for any important meal: Lots of oysters, venison chops, sweet potato frites, a baby brassica mix. It was also, in spite of the absence of turkey (and many of the other fetish items associated with everyone’s very proprietary holiday), very much in tune with the occasion we …
pork mousse; venison chops, sautéed mushrooms; collards
It was a meaty dinner. The first course was a do-it-yourself project constructed around a wonderful pork mousse that had been made on a Columbia County farm, Raven & Boar, installed at the Union Square Greenmarket for the first time ever on Wednesday. where it was selling its very singular produce, farm-made pork charcuterie. a …
pepper venison; herb-roasted potatoes; red cabbage; tilsit
It was a holiday. And there was game. Although venison is hardly what comes to mind on the day when the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. is especially abroad in the land, last night we celebrated the birthday of the great man partly with this very good meal. It was especially good, especially on an …
smoked trout; venison steak; celeriac fries; leaved broccoli
Farmed game. Well, it’s not entirely an oxymoron. It was December 25th, Christmas, so the meal had to be at least a little special. Two forms of wild game would definitely fill the bill, I thought, and that’s what I went for, although without the “wild” part. Unless you fish for trout and hunt deer …
venison; watercress; roasted fingerlings; brussels sprouts
I wasn’t looking for game when I went to the Greenmarket last Saturday. I already had plans for our entrée that evening, but I stopped to say hello to the people at Quattro’s Poultry & Game Farm. I went home with some venison. While at the stand I had noticed a single venison steak at the bottom of one of their …
peppered venison, brandy; roasted turnips; red cabbage
This was at least the third dinner of venison we’ve enjoyed this winter, and preparing it this time was even easier than usual because of some leftovers and a very easy-going root vegetable purchased in the Greenmarket over a month before. eight ounces of a D’Artagnan New Zealand venison ‘shortloin’, from Frank at O. Ottomanelli & Sons, that had been cut from …
venison, brandy sauce; quince chutney; parsnips; collards
I could easily get used to this. Venison has always been one of my favorite entrées, but I’m becoming more and more comfortable with preparing it at home, and I’m really enjoying the process of selecting it from some of my favorite butchers. This time I picked a fresh venison ‘shortloin’ from Frank (the game specialist brother) …
venison; quince chutney; camote chipotle gratin; lacinato
with no hint of the richness of the entrée, a light cabbage sauté (‘butter’ still melting) the empty space in the middle? reserved for quince chutney ..and here it is (I had taken the second picture before serving the chutney) tiny cheese, big toast, but the toast was very thin we decided to call pecan pie a Venezuelan …
venison, sauce poivrade; roasted carrots; brussels sprouts
very happy with this meal Holidays and weekends shouldn’t be the only occasions for special meals, and besides, what’s ‘special’ when you’re trying to do your best all the time? Still, I have to admit that this was pretty special, and while I served it on an ‘ordinary’ Monday, that wasn’t my original intention. …