Probably a zillion dollars have been made off of chicken soup proper—and that’s before we even start talking about the concept of chicken soup or…read more
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Meat Shop Charcuterie
Pork Rillettes: An enduring food preparation in more ways than one, rillettes began as a preservation method but acquired legendary stature as a delicious dish…read more
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Roasts Part III
The rules of the game for roast pork or lamb are similar to those with roast beef, though each have their idiosyncracies. Pork Sirloin Roast:…read more
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Roasts Part 2
Pot Roast definitionally involves liquid, so it is necessarily a braise. This might seem like a semantic distinction, but since the word roast is already…read more
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Roasts Part 1
The fact of the matter is, when you are cooking a Roast Beef Dinner (capital letters fully intended), you are either going to cook your…read more
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Easter Preorder
Make sure you have everything you need for a beautiful holiday meal. Starting now, you can preorder whole house-smoked hams, and cuts of lamb to…read more
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Olympic Worthy Steak: The Picanha
When we first opened the shop we had this steak called the coulotte. A delicious steak, to be sure, but it required some explaining because…read more
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Peterson Limousin Beef
Last week a group of us had the privilege of visiting the Peterson Family farm in Osceola, Wisconsin. Farm visits are one…read more
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Bacon
It feels superfluous to write anything about bacon. Is bacon over? Are we past our obsession with cured pork belly? For a while it seemed…read more
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The French Onion Brat
Scott, our head butcher, had one request (okay he had way more than 1) when he agreed to mastermind this whole meat shop project. He…read more
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Wine & Grill Guide
This is a guest post by France 44 wine specialist, Karina Roe. Road Construction and Winter. Mosquito Season and Winter. Too Hot and Too Cold….read more
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Ground Beef Nirvana
Ground beef is a food that can easily be taken for granted. It’s not quite in the boneless, skinless chicken breast of the meat world…read more