Christmas Cookies D’Artagnan Style! Duck Fat Biscochitos

Duck fat is not only an indispensable cooking fat, it’s also excellent for baking. It can be substituted 1:1 for lard in any old fashioned recipe, you just need to keep it well-chilled while you work with it. Duck fat adds depth of flavor to baked goods, makes an especially tender pie crust, lofty Viennoiseries, and flaky cookies….

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The Game Goes Gourmet

Today’s game is going gourmet, courtesy of Ariane and D’Artagnan President, Andy Wertheim. They’re at Giants stadium to cheer on the home team while cooking D’Artagnan Duck Tenders with Foie Gras and Truffle Sauce. Now that’s winning!

Celebrating Hanukkah D’Artagnan Style

For eight days and nights, in the dark of winter, Jewish families around the world will celebrate the Festival of Lights, better known as Hanukkah. And each of those nights will be filled with traditional rituals and foods. For those of you looking for something beyond matzoh ball soup, potato latkes and brisket, we have a few…

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Good Cause: City Harvest Mobile Holiday Market

We are pleased to participate in the 2011 City Harvest Brooklyn Mobile Holiday Market. The Mobile Market is City Harvest’s direct distribution initiative to fight hunger in New York City’s most underserved communities through the distribution of free produce at farmers’ market-style events in the South Bronx, North Shore of Staten Island, and Central Brooklyn….

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How-to: Foie Gras Butter

Oh do we ever relish simple pleasures. Take our latest addiction – equal parts sweet butter and foie gras, beautifully blended into a silken spread. Tasty alchemy that makes an easy holiday hors d’oeuvre. This recipe is adapted from Jennifer McLagan’s excellent cookbook, Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes. Which by the…

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Featured Recipe: Truffled Hasselback Potatoes with Ham Crisps

Here’s an easy recipe for those chilly nights when cravings run carb heavy. While tasty on their own, Swedish-style Hasselback potatoes are equally delicious alongside roasted meats, such as rack of lamb, venison medallions or beef tenderloin. Of course our version is slathered in black truffle butter before baking, which lends a subtle earthiness and…

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More mushroom love!

Chantal Martineau from (one of our favorite sites) Food Republic, interviewed Ariane during the wild mushroom harvest dinner at North Square Restaurant. Here’s what she learned…   In Season Right Now: Wild Mushrooms Nov 29, 2011 9:01 am Fungi and games with D’Artagnan’s Ariane Daguin   Hedgehog, fried chicken, cauliflower, canary, lobster. An odd menu,…

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Mushroom Mania!

vibrant bluefoot mushrooms, like otherworldly delights There are hundreds of products that come in and out of D’Artagnan that the general public never gets the chance to see. Our catalogue of chef-only items is expansive and runs the gamut, from specialty game like ostrich and goat to large primal cuts of beef, exotic eggs and…

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D’Artagnan Thanksgiving Survival Guide: Day 16

If you are laboring to figure out which is the best wine to serve with your roasted turkey and looking for a little direction, let us help you with a few simple and less dogmatic pointers about what to consider and what not to worry about before you delve into the world of ratings, scores and blog…

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D’Artagnan Thanksgiving Survival Guide: Day 15

We love turkey. We also love chicken. And, naturally, our love for all things duck is hardly in question. If you love these beautiful, bountiful birds as much as we do, why not have all three at once? That’s right, we’re talking about turducken, that gorgeous – and some say egregious – Cajun concoction made from a stuffed, deboned…

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