Here I’ve applied the confit method to chicken hearts, instead of the traditional duck legs.Trimmed, cleaned chicken hearts seasoned and cooked slowly in fat until soft and tender are good in lots of things. Chopped up, gently browned and tossed with buttered noodles, or other pasta based dishes are some of my favorites. They’re also…
Charcuterie
Turkey Hunter’s Morel Rillettes
I find that a lot of times, experiences give me ideas of things to make in the kitchen. A couple springs ago, I was hunting morels in Iowa with my friend, we had found plenty of ramps, but left them be to hunt out our real quarry: morels. Eventually we got to a park where…
How To Cook with Caul Fat / Lace Fat
Ever since I discovered what caul was, I’d been dying to cook with it, and it took me a number of years to finally get to work with this stuff. Reading old french cook books has always had me coming across it being used in various ways. The trick is….where to find it? What…