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Sun, Feb 03, 2008

Game

Posted at 6:47 pm MST to Technology

Not that kind of game. I mean the kind of game you buy in the butcher department.

Wild Oats is now almost completely transformed into a Whole Foods. Yay. Maybe their produce will be more trustworthy. I've been buying their organic bananas for the past couple of weeks, and haven't encountered any weird badness, which is encouraging. I bought some celery and carrots and mushrooms today. We'll see how it goes.

I bought some ground venison, which is thawing now: I'll make venison burgers for supper. What I really want is venison stew chunks, but to get that, I need to encourage them to stock venison at all.

I also bought some buffalo stew chunks. I was impressed. They weren't frozen and prepacked in the specialty meat section, with the Ostrich and venison. The buffalo was just in the butcher's case: ground buffalo, stew chunks, steak and some roasts, just sitting there between the grass-fed beef and the New Zealand lamb. The celery, carrots, and mushrooms are going to be in the buffalo stew in the crock pot tomorrow -- I already have potatoes in the house, and onions and shallots and garlic.

I also have a package of sun-dried tomatoes in the house, and dried blueberries. And raisins, of course. I wonder what would be most interesting in a buffalo stew. Maybe some raisins if I use a red wine to deglaze the browning skillet, or blueberries with mead...

Since I have all those new spices in the little tins, I should do something interesting with them. I don't want to do a curry as such, I don't think. I need to check my medieval cookbooks for interesting spice combinations. (And the web, of course.)

I'll put together a preliminary mise en place tonight and grind whatever spices I decide to use. Then brown things and peel and chop vegetables in the morning, and put everything into the crockpot for the day.

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