Tag Archives: North Union Farmers Markets

Dinner with Pardus

 

Chef Pardus and Michael sharing a tasting moment. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

My Dinner with Pardus

Originally posted July 31, 2008 Do you have any veal hearts?” Pardus asked. The vendor, with happiness and surprise, said, “I do!” He pulled it out of the cooler and said, “How about five bucks?” “Sold!” What happens when a chef visits for the weekend? My old instructor and now close friend Mike Pardus (pronounced PAR-dus—some people think because he’s a chef, it’s pronounced par-DOO) visited recently. The main fact about Michael is that he is a cook in every fiber of his body, meaning, in part, that when he’s away from his work as a chef instructor at the CIA, when he can do anything he wants because he’s on holiday, he chooses to cook all day. Which ...

Click to Continue Reading

DiggShare
Posted in Appetizers, Beef, Books, chefs, Elements of Cooking, Memories | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments closed

Buying Local Lamb

A while ago I wrote about Aaron Miller (above, photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman) and his grassfed beef, which I've found to be astonishingly succulent for 100% grassfed (it's all in how you treat the grass, he says; you are what you eat, even if you're a cow). We cooked his turkey at Thanksgiving.  He also raises excellent pigs. And now he's started a lamb program,  available by order from their site.  I cooked some for Jonathon Sawyer, chef at The Greenhouse Tavern, and he took one smell and said, "You can smell it's grass-fed!" Aaron and his wife Melissa are part of growing number of small farmers raising animals on grass. I'd love for more bloggers to post links to livestock farmers in their area raising animals for food, sustainably and well. If ...

Click to Continue Reading

DiggShare
Posted in Beef, Chicken, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Lamb | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed
  • Welcome to Ruhlman.com where I blog about food, cooking, recipes and technique, because the world is better when we cook for ourselves. Thanks for visiting and I hope you’ll join the conversation.

    Follow Me on Pinterest

     

     

     

     

     
     

     

     

     

  • Kitchen Tools

    Click here to see my favorite kitchen tools.
    Go to my Open Sky store.


  • Recipes

  • Category Archive

watch full movies online for free on watch-funny-movies.com