Unique Food Recipes & Dinner Ideas
Wild About Mushrooms for Thanksgiving
The colonists at the first Thanksgiving definitively had venison, and the fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today. The wild birds (Heritage Turkeys are similar domestic birds) are firmer, and have a rich, intense flavor since they are mostly dark meat. If you decide to go wild here, why not add the produce of the forest floor to the Thanksgiving table? Foragers have been out gathering wild mushrooms and the flavors are perfect for your Thanksgiving Feast.
Food and Wine Recipe for Short Ribs with Mushrooms and Spring Vegetables
Here is Rory Herrmann's recipe, published in Food and Wine in May of 2011, for Braised short ribs using spring vegetables and mushrooms. Within the...