Category Archives: kidneys

The Sugar Mountain Farm Butcher Shop Project launches!

Posted on March 30, 2012 by mosaica

Pull on your galoshes and hurry on over to Kickstarter to back a really fantastic project: Walter, Holly, and their family are building an on-farm butcher shop at Sugar Mountain Farm! This really is good news, not just for those … Continue reading →

Posted in alternatively sourced meat, bacon, charcuterie, curing, extremities, kidneys, liver, nose-to-tail, offal, pig's ears, pork, sausage, tongue, trotter | Tagged butcher shop, humanely raised, pigs, pork, sugar mountain farm, Vermont, walter jeffries | 5 Comments

Pudding Time

Posted on January 13, 2012 by mosaica

From the Oxford English Dictionary: † ˈpudding-time Obs. The time when pudding or puddings are to be had; hence fig., a time when one is in luck; a favourable or useful time. 1667 Dryden & Dk. Newcastle Sir M. Mar-all … Continue reading →

Posted in beef, extremities, kidneys, nose-to-tail, offal, recipe | Tagged beef, heston, kidney, oxtail, pudding, pudding basin, steak and kidney, steamed pudding | 18 Comments

Lamb Kidneys

Posted on November 9, 2011 by mosaica

The butchering season is upon us here in New England, and I’ve been out a lot with my farm-butcher mentor Chet and his son Nick. Yesterday we slaughtered 9 lambs and one beef, and I came home with a bucket … Continue reading →

Posted in kidneys, lamb, nose-to-tail, offal, recipe, Uncategorized | Tagged biksemad, confit, hash, kidney, lamb, yummy | 10 Comments

Devilled Pig Kidneys

Posted on February 2, 2011 by mosaica

On Sunday I had the great good fortune to attend Cochon 555, a rock-concert-like celebration of heritage pigs. Five amazing chefs, five different heritage pigs, a butchery competition, really great oysters, lots of fantastic people, and my favorite St. Germaine … Continue reading →