Wild Bites #70: a 6-minute read that makes you smarter about wild food and tells you what's to come on the website,
YouTube, or To The Bone. ~ Hank Preserved garlic is absolutely amazing. Here's what's trending on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: - Garlic is coming ripe everywhere, and if you find yourself with lots, I have an incredible recipe for preserved garlic. You need a pressure canner, but man is this worth it!
- Pickled
nopales, the pads of the prickly pears cactus, are fantastic as a side dish for tacos or beans and rice. You can buy fresh paddles in any Latin market.
- A simple wiener schnitzel, a German cutlet normally made with veal, is a great summer summer. Use any white meat here, from pork to chicken, pheasant, grouse, you name it.
- We made Mexican sopes at a recent Borderlands cookbook event, and they were a huge hit. Here's how to make sopes, which don't need any special equipment.
- Southern fish and grits is a classic. You can make it with pretty much any fish,
too.
- If you're looking to make some fun grilling sausages, try my garlic sausages. Pork or venison are your meats of choice here.
- Got crabs? [snicker] Make
you some deviled crabs then. It's one of the crab dishes I grew up with, and it's amazing.
Moving up the list: A borderlands favorite, pork chile verde! Super good as the filling for burritos on tacos, or with beans and rice. Love these or any of my recipes? Please rate them while you're there so people searching for recipes know they're worth clicking on! 2. Salmon and Trout Recipes This is the best sauce for salmon or trout in summertime. Summer is a great time for salmon and trout fishing, and I have lots and lots of recipes for them. Salmon and trout are interchangeable in these recipes. Here are a few of my faves: - Salmon risotto is a fantastic, easy dish to impress your friends with. Great with trout, too.
- Looking for a perfect summer recipe for salmon or trout? Make my salmon with cucumber sauce. It's a New Nordic style dish that will knock your socks off -- even if you don't like cucumber.
- Trout or salmon chowder is a great dish for when the nights cool. This is a Pacific Northwest style chowder.
- Smoked salmon tacos is definitely something that should be on your to-make list. They're not a traditional Mexican taco, but they sure are
good!
- Trout or salmon rillettes are basically a fancy "fish dip," perfect for summer parties. You will love it.
Summer chanterelles are here! Chanties are a summer mushroom in most of North America, and they've finally mader their appearance here in Minnesota. West Coast folks, save this for your season in fall and winter. Look for them around oaks in the Midwest, and
definitely test them for bugs. You do this by gently pressing in the center of the cap: If it's soft and spongy, they wee beasties have gotten to it first. Hat tip to my friend Jaime over at Chick of the Woods for that bit of intel! Start with this primer on how to cook chanterelles, then browse around my favorite chanterelle recipes: - A simple chanterelle sauce, great for fish -- like walleye -- or poultry or even just pasta.
- Chanterelles don't dry well; they lose all their flavor. Better to make pickled chanterelles to enjoy them all winter!
- Make this sexy chanterelle soup for your next date night. You won't be sad.
- A bowl of gold! This is a simple chanterelle pasta with golden cherry tomatoes, yellow bell peppers and lots of fresh chanties.
- Or go the risotto route with a lush chanterelle
risotto. Another good date night option that's easy enough to make on a work night.
4. Book Tour Behind the Scenes Ceviche tostada, red chile chicken sope, and the Deathbed Taco. Want to know what it's like behind the scenes on a book tour dinner? It's probably not what you think. I
wrote about it all over at To the Bone. The story is what it's like to be the author at a book dinner, about striving for perfection, but realizing that
reaching it is impossible -- about growing from missteps and reveling in the joy of connection. I hope you like it, and if you do, that you'll subscribe. It helps me out a lot. On the road... I need your help. What I am learning is that with all the uncertainty in the world right now, people are less
eager to go out at all, let alone go to a cookbook event. While you are reading this, there are still seats open for my event tomorrow, July 12, in Sonoma California. (If you want to go, get a ticket here.) There are still open seats to many of my events, which is reflecting everyone's uncertainty. So I am asking you to please consider coming to an event to help support me and this book, or if you can't, share the info to those you think might be interested in coming. Here are the
links to my upcoming events: - July 17 in Tysons, Virginia (Washington DC area), at Ometeo. This will be a fantastic book dinner with Top Chef winner Gabe
Erales.
- July 19 in St. Leonard, Maryland, where I will be cooking from the book for a Coastal Conservation Assn. fundraiser.
- July 23 in Boston at The Smoke Shop BBQ for a barbecue dinner with James Beard Award-nominated Chef Andy Husbands.
- July 24 in Freeport, Maine, at the Maine Beer Co. for a special beer party with food specials from the book.
- July 27 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at Vida Cantina for a special northern Mexican dinner with ames Beard Award-nominated Chef David Vargas.
- August 1 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin (Milwaukee area) at the Fermentorium for a beer party with a special Hatch chile kolsch and food
specials.
- August 2 in Paoli, Wisconsin (Madison area) at Seven Acres Dairy for a patio party fiesta with all kinds of borderlands foods available.
- August 12 in Phoenix, Oregon (Ashland area) at Clyde's Corner for
a very special dinner featuring several award-winning chefs.
After that, I will be in the Pacific Northwest, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Atlanta, Texas and New Mexico. I am trying to add more stops, too. Head over to my Book Tour Page to get the details. I have one more question for you, and you can answer in the comments below: Would you rather I do simple book signings, or cooking demos, or events less elaborate than a book dinner? Let me
know. I want to see you out there, but book tours are incredibly expensive in terms of hotels, gas, airfare, book shipping costs, etc. I want to serve you as best I can. Let me know how. Thanks in advance for your help! ~ Hank Comments?Let us know what you think about Wild Bites by using our anonymous comment form - we love to hear from you, and we read every single comment. If you have a question, fire away and be sure to share your email address so we can respond. |
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