Sunday, October 17, 2010

Tasiwoo Ho!

 I've always wanted to try buffalo. Being part Native, I spent a good portion of my youth reading about my ancestors and wishing that I too could live in a teepee, following the buffalo herds. As I've gotten older, the teepee part has diminshed, but wanting to try buffalo hasn't. After eyeing the package of ground buffalo in the sote for several years, I finally decided to take the plunge and buy it.

 The meat is a bit darker red than the standard ground moo, and there is a very low fat percentage. I shaped up some patties and cooked them in a skillet, since I had been craving a juicy, greasy flat griddle burger for a couple of weeks.

 After cooking, I put the medium rare burgers on some artisan buns with some lovely uncured bacon, queso blanco cheese, blue cheese, red onion, Buttercrunch lettuce and mayo.



 The taste of the burger was everything I had hoped for; juicy, not at all greasy with a full rich beef flavor, more like a good Porterhouse steak than hamburger. We both loved it, and while it's a little pricey to be feeding the kiddies or eating daily ($6.99/lb), it will be replacing steak as a fancy date night dinner. Altho, they DO have a buffalo steak now at HEB.............

Monday, October 11, 2010

Get your b****h ass back in the kitchen, and make me some pie!

As I'm cleaning out the fridge, I noticed a jar of mincemeat in the back. Mincemeat, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is a blend of chopped applesa and dried fruit, sugar and spices. Up until recent times, mincemeat actually contained meat, as a way to use up meat scraps that would otherwise spoil and go to waste. I had never had it, but was willing to try it when I saw it on the clearance rack at Randall's.
  Since we had opened the jar to taste it, I figured I'd better use it, or the chickens would be getting it. So I dug around in the freezer, found some pie shells (Pie crust is one of the few things I never can make worth a damn), filled one, slapped the other on top, and in the oven. And what came out was this:




Since mincemeat is traditionally served with hard sauce, I made some to go with it. Hard sauce is butter mixed with vanilla and powdered sugar, kind of a really sweet butter spread. Good tho!


If you like really sweet desserts, then I would recommend mince pie, sweet and tasty!