Cooking Our Grass-fed Beef Short Ribs

Not just for braising in the oven, our beautiful, grass-fed short ribs are the ultimate cut for smoking. The process helps break down the collagen in this nutrient-dense cut and will lead to tender fall-off-the-bone beef that melts in your mouth. Check out the method and try it in your backyard soon.

A Simple Venison Chili You’ll Love

For many people, their first venison experience is with ground meat. That’s because most venison is hunted and ground up, frozen, and enjoyed over the winter. Not so with our premium New Zealand venison. Farm raised in nearly wild conditions, the red deer get a diet of nutritious grasses and roam vast, pristine pastures. This…

4 Fresh and Easy Recipes You’ll Love to Make with Summer Corn

Does your farmers market have corn yet? After the initial excitement and first few meals of boiled, steamed, or grilled corn on the cob, it’s time to find some fresh ways to cook with it. Read on for our favorite corn recipes that are certain to become summer classics in your home.

12 New Fall Cookbooks to Inspire You in the Kitchen

Fall is a good time to get back to the kitchen and cook. To make it even more fun, a slew of new cookbooks are coming out this season. Read on for a selection of the books we most want to add to our (already packed) shelves. 

10 Ways to Cook Short Ribs that will Make You Happy this Winter

Are you craving comfort food? We nominate short ribs for the most satisfying of winter meals. These braise-worthy ribs are perfect in a slow cooker or an enamel cast iron pot, where low temps and long cooking time transform tough, sinewy cuts into meltingly tender tidbits. Read on for 10 ways to enjoy short ribs, and fire up the oven.

A Holiday Lunch Tradition: Behind the Scenes at D’Artagnan

Before the holidays our warehouse is humming. We have 3 shifts working around the clock to get all the orders picked, packed and loaded onto trucks so they can make their way to restaurants, retailers and home cooks across the country. So many Thanksgiving meals depend on us! During the final weekend before Thanksgiving is…

Cook Your Best on Thanksgiving with this Chef Advice

We asked some of our chef clients for advice on Thanksgiving cooking … and we got some good tips for you! This big holiday meal is often the most complicated and challenging one that a home cook undertakes all year. Read on to see what the pros do and how you can cook like a…

What to Cook in November on the Days that are Not Thanksgiving

With so much attention focused on one Thursday in November, it’s as though the other 29 days of the month don’t matter. But there are plenty of other meals – that are not on Thanksgiving – to eat in November. Read on for 10 easy recipes perfect for meals before the holiday, and even afterward….

Behind-the-Scenes Dinner with Ariane and Les Marmitons

Have you ever wanted to cook with a whole group of friends? If so, you might be interested in Les Marmitons. The members of this gentlemen’s social club share an interest in fine food, wine, and the culinary arts, and they gather monthly to cook multi-course meals under the tutelage of a professional chef. Of course, they eat…