When it comes to preparing Thanksgiving turkeys, there are two camps: the briners and the anti-briners. What is brining? At its most basic, brining is submerging meat in a solution of salt and water for many hours before cooking. The purpose is to enhance the meat’s ability to retain moisture and tenderness while seasoning it….
Category: Holidays
Pre-Order Your Organic Turkey for Thanksgiving
By far the most popular choice at Thanksgiving, our USDA-certified organic turkeys are bursting with superb flavor, and roast up nice and crispy on the outside, with tender, meaty and moist center. The turkeys are raised free-range and fed a 100% organic, all vegetarian, non-GMO diet with no antibiotics or hormones. Treat yourself—and your family—to…
Make Savory Halloween Treats for Grownups
We’ve got recipes that combine the savory and the sweet for stupendous Halloween treats!
Roast a Second Entrée this Thanksgiving
At Thanksgiving it’s all about the turkey … or is it? Some people don’t care to eat turkey, and others don’t have the oven space to roast the 28-pound turkey that the assembled crowd would require. Why not serve a smaller turkey alongside a slow-roasted pork shoulder? Or a roasted leg of lamb? Make it a special…
Cook Your Best With These Holiday Helpers
What every cook wants is a little help in the kitchen this time of year. The best we can offer are these holiday workhorses which will make every recipe better. This collection consists of pantry staples like truffle butter, fresh and dried mushrooms, demi-glace, duck fat, fully-cooked chestnuts, French olive oil, and more. Here are…
Fall In Love with Potatoes & Duck Fat on National Potato Day
October 27th is National Potato Day according to our calendar. So today we will celebrate the love affair between duck fat and potatoes with 3 easy recipes. The combination of duck fat and potatoes is a match made in food heaven. Duck fat enhances the earthy potato flavor and imparts a golden crust. Use duck…
Fall In Love with Potatoes & Duck Fat on National Potato Day
You’ll love these 3 easy recipes for duck fat and potatoes!
Gobble It Up: Heritage Turkey for Thanksgiving
Long before the Pilgrims landed and had time to prepare a Thanksgiving feast, the turkey was a bird well known and appreciated in the Americas. Native to the continent, it was brought back to Europe by Spanish Conquistadors, became a popular barnyard bird there, then returned to New England with the Pilgrims. Sometime later it…
Turkey Pre-Order Begins Today!
That’s right, it’s time to start planning Thanksgiving. The early bird gets the turkey of their choice … and today is the first day to pre-order and reserve your turkey for the feast on November 23rd. Because we work with small farms, we have limited supply and the most popular sizes often sell out quickly….
Try Wild Boar on National Taco Day!
National Taco Day comes but once a year, and today is that day! Try something different in your taco: wild boar, duck (as in Cosme’s famous version), chicken confit, pork shoulder, flank or hanger steak. Any cut of meat that is shreddable is fair game. Start with our slow-cooked wild boar shoulder recipe, then shred a…
6 Recipes: Labor Day with a Side of Bacon
We’ve come to the conclusion that bacon is the secret ingredient to happiness. So as you send off summer this Labor Day, be sure to add a little bacon to the menu. Whatever you are serving – burgers and dogs, BBQ ribs, whole roasted pig – there’s room for bacon on the table. Here are…
Happy Chicken Wing Day 2017
We are in pre-season warm-up. Now is the time to perfect your chicken wing game, so you can win at tailgating in the coming football season. Perhaps that’s why National Chicken Wing Day falls on July 29th … Start with the best ingredients. Order Organic Chicken Wings here and begin practicing. Here are some statistics about…
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