Popette di Tachino

I was looking at post from a year ago and the Turkey Meatballs came up. Got a hankering and went to work. turned out that KB needed something for a potluck. THESE came out very well indeed. browned em which I usually don't do. Deglazed with a little red wine (thank you mister Gallo) and slow cooked them in a red sauce for about 35-40 minutes.

Next night I had the leftover sauce and 5 uncooked meatballs. did the same thing but put them in a clay pot this time and let them cook in the oven for 35 minutes at 375. Small batch of penne, sized for the amount of sauce in the clay pot. mixed em all together, some pecorino on top and back into the oven (which is off now) to stay warm until KB got home.

Damn fine pasta and meatballs.

Elk with Red wine reduction

Elk from Wyoming. Red wine grilled pears. This was incredibly good! The marinade was a wine reduction as KB made the poached pears a few days back. Reuse. Score. A rosemary twig or two was also in the juice. KB added a little salt and the leftover pears and the whole gig did it's thing for about 2 hours.
I took the pears out and tossed them around in a little olive oil and then to the grill. The meat got the Dutch oven. A little butter....cooked to order (I had one well and one medium rare ; both were excellent and not gamey at all. We've read that Elk can get chewy because it's so lean. Not here. They were as tender as any good cut)
Last step was to use the remaining wine marinate (Reuse again.....score!), deglazed the pot and reduced to a syrup. THAT was a nice touch to bring the two together (the Wine did it's thing with fresh plum and black pepper) Missing a touch of green...but that was a 22$ plate at Canyon Chop house.

Pommes de Terre au Romanie

Rosemary potates. These were very good but I had higher expectation. Maybe it was just a little too late with the Elk; a little too dry. (hey....That's what was missing on the whole dish was a bit of snap.)

Lasagne Bolognese

in various stages of production.

pears poaching in redwine

Corona alle Pere

KB made this beaut from the silver spoon book. Crown shaped cake, red wine poached pears and whipped cream. Who wouldn't love that! (pictures pending)