It's just an ad lib: reduced beef stock, red wine and thyme and let it simmer while everything else was cooking. Then I added soy sauce and red wine vinegar until it tasted right and mounted it with butter. As Anthony Bourdain said, "An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins."

Sauteed pheasant breast with oyster mushrooms, paired with roasted Brussel sprouts and topped with a bit of arugula. A coworker is an avid hunter and he recently gave me a full pheasant breast, but it was skinned and in multiple pieces so I couldn't follow the recipe exactly. I ended up...

I have to go visit Swallow Hill Farms! I just looked at their website and now I'm hungry!!

Roasted cream of parsnip and potato soup, with spicy venison sausage, dried cranberries, Italian parsley, and parmesan cheese. I took inspiration from a couple of different recopies and basically did my own thing. I had to work at it a bit to get the soup base right as far as texture and...

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For Christmas we decided to take on two different cooking challenges. The first was to recreate a menu from La Bernardin. We decided to go for the four course Prix Fixe with items previously on the menu. First course: Salmon-Caviar Croque-Monsieur. I bought the best smokes salmon I could...

Sweet potato gnocchi with brown butter and fried sage, green beans with bacon, and seared pork chop. Less than 30 mins from start to finish.

I smoked a venison tenderloin for Thanksgiving. A smidge overcooked but it was yummy!

That looks awesome!!

Using a sous vide is like cheating, but I'll take it! ;)

Venison round roast cooked sous vide with roasted veggies and Turkish flat bread. I don't make bread very often, but every time I do I wonder why I don't make it more.

Absolutely! A raw oyster is nothing compared to some of the strange things we ate in Japan.

I used a little clamato juice, a shot of vodka, some diced cucumber, grated ginger, and an oyster. I thought it could have used a dash of Tabasco, but I was afraid of overpowering the delicateness of the oyster. My wife loved them, so that's all that mattered.

A friend at work brought me a few dozen oysters, since I had to work all weekend and I missed the oyster festival in his hometown. I made a couple of oyster shooters and an oyster gumbo. The recipe described it as a thin gumbo, but it sparked dinner conversation about the essential elements of...

Looks great John! I'm going to have to check out Swallow Farms.

He only bought them so he could hand them out to trick-or-treaters. I know because I went to his house 9 times on Sunday!

A friend at work shot too many deer last year and gave me a couple of them, and I've been working my way through the freezer on weekends. Venison loin with demi-glace, celery root puree, orange glazed carrots, roasted brussle sprouts, pumpkin gnocchi, roasted garlic with blood orange segments...

How a person drinks coffee is often a good indicator of the type of cigars they like as the two seem to correlate. Look for a dark wrapper, something like a maduro or ligero. Padron makes a variety of great cigars that might satisfy your tastes.

I smoked some chicken leg quarters yesterday. I smoked them for 90 minutes and finished them in the air fryer for about 10 mins to crisp the skin. It's ridiculous how cheap and easy it is to make something that is so tasty. I paired it with some grilled onions and zucchini and rice topped...