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A silky smooth white wine sauce with a hint of lemon--serve it with seafood, poultry, or vegetables.
Our barley risotto, served with duck sausages, is hearty enough for a one-dish main course on the coldest night of the year. Double the recipe to serve eight. You'll all be enchanted.
Belgians are famous for cooking with beer. They also use dried fruits, especially cherries and prunes, in stews. This sweet, rich, and satisfying dish is a splendid example of how cherry beer and dried cherries marry with rabbit or other game meats. The final splash of balsamic really makes the tastes sparkle. Serve it over spaetzle or with boiled potatoes.
These beautifully seasoned, fork-tender shoulder lamb chops are simmered in a heady sauce redolent of vermouth, apricots, sage, tomatoes, and cinnamon. It was inspired by a dish from Spain's Mediterranean coast. The aromatic combination of ingredients harkens back to the Moorish culture that imparted many lush flavors to the international stew pot. Serve the chops on a bed of wide noodles or mashed potatoes.
This wine-enriched sauce is traditionally served over beef steaks or beef tenderloin, but it will also add a luscious finish to veal, pork, or lamb.
Braised lamb shanks are wonderfully succulent and versatile, as this mildly-spicy curry dish shows. If you like, once the shanks are tender, cut the meat in chunks off the bone. To keep the theme: serve the meat over red lentils simmered in diluted Glace d'Agneau Gold and mixed with a little butter and some dried currants.
A rich, decadent sauce spiked with cognac and the sweet tang of dried cherries--marvelous over your best beef or veal roast.
Chunks of wild boar are marinated in gin and vermouth with juniper berries and then braised in a rich broth to make a hearty stew. Sour cream and olives are stirred in at the end to make this soul-satisfying cold-weather dish--serve it with your favorite bold red wine.
If you think sausages are only everyday fare, you haven’t tasted this over-the-top combination. Creamy polenta has to be just this side of heaven. Topped with succulent game sausages and a tangy-sweet balsamic vinegar sauce, the results are sublime.
The duck in this fanciful and flavorful salad is poached in stock without skin, making it succulent and low fat. The same stock adds flavor to the creamy dressing. Those crispy bits of skin, or "cracklings," add a heavenly if not exactly dietetic crunch to the salad. Use as many as you dare!
Never again will left-over turkey be thought of as mundane once you feast on this delectable risotto. Sautéed white mushrooms and onions along with Arborio rice become creamy yet al dente as turkey stock is slowly stirred into this traditional Italian dish. Then add splash of white wine, diced turkey, and Parmigiano. If you're in a flamboyant mood, you might shave on fresh white truffles. For the rest of us mortals, this is already a heavenly celebration that must be served immediately.
Our fragrant, saffron-scented soup is nice and garlicky. It will transport you to southern France with your first spoonful. We take a shortcut for the aïoli garnish, using a ready-made mayonnaise. Stir it into the soup before serving.
This silky, luxurious sauce with fresh tarragon and the subtle tang of mustard will make a masterpiece of your roasted or sautéed chicken.
Take it from us: there's nothing more tempting than a luscious steak with a French wine-butter sauce. But butter sauces often have mounds of butter. We find that if the wine and stock are well reduced, you'll only need about a tablespoon of butter per serving. Because everything counts in this minimalist preparation, choose fine wine, butter, meat, and, of course, stock.
Juicy venison chops with a crunchy, cracked pepper crust played against the taste of sweet venison meat and woodsy morels are definitely worth celebrating. With our Glace de Gibier, this heady sauce is ultra simple! Sautéed carrots and steamed broccoli florets, or Brussels sprouts, would nicely complement this luxurious dish.
This magical blend of caramelized balsamic vinegar and Glace de Veau Gold makes a contemporary drizzle of sauce that is clean and enticing to the palate.
Frankly, it almost doesn't matter what you put underneath this ambrosial sauce… Even if it won't make a silk purse of a sow's ear, the full-flavored combination of dried cherries, port, and Jus de Poulet Lié Gold certainly transforms mundane pork cutlets into celebrity fare. Serve this sauce with turkey, chicken, veal, or duck, as well.
The sunny flavors of Provence come to mind in this fragrant veal stew simmered with fennel, sweet bell peppers, olives, and orange zest. Serve it over wide pasta noodles, boiled potatoes, or couscous.
Rabbit braised in red wine is a classic. Here we add the subtle flavor of rosé and balsamic vinegar to the gently simmering liquid. Fond de Poulet seamlessly melts into all of the liquids to impart a rich, perfectly balanced taste to complement the rabbit. A final flourish of crème fraîche creates a deliciously complex sauce with pearl onions, mushrooms, and dried currants.
This luscious sauce is the perfect complement to any grilled or roasted cut of beef, pork, veal or game, including flavorful birds like squab. Serve it on a grilled steak, roasted tenderloin of pork, seared venison cutlets or pan-roasted veal chops. Your guests will be dazzled and you’ll celebrate how simple it is to prepare.
This classic white wine sauce accented with mustard is excellent with pork or any grilled or roasted meat.
An elegant blend of rich tomato flavor with shrimp, mussels, and fresh herbs makes this risotto one to remember. Savor it with a glass of crisp Sauvignon Blanc or Albarino.
Heady aromas emanate from this satisfying, rustic, one-dish pasta meal inspired by southern Italy. White fish filets brushed with sun-dried tomato pesto simmer over aromatics in a wine-scented fish stock. Finally they almost melt into a sauce, and spaghetti, olives, capers, and fresh basil are stirred in. Add grated Parmesan if you like. (We do.)
The painted desert of America's southwest will beckon with these meaty, fork-tender shanks of lamb braised in a chipotle chili, tomato, and beer sauce. You'll be licking your fingers for every last bite. Serve over smashed potatoes.
Try this complex, Asian-inspired sauce over steamed fish, chicken, or vegetables.
This one-dish main course has the glamorous style of today's top chefs: succulent scallops, ribbons of baby spinach, and rice chosen from a rainbow of possible choices in a truly extraordinary sauce.
We get raves every time we serve these crunchy, lightly-battered leaves. They're incomparable!
Be as wild as you dare with your choice of wild game sausage. We like wild boar, but duck, rabbit, or even traditional pork sausages will be mighty fine, too. Nestled atop cheesy grits along with the zestiest sauce this side of Santa Fe, they're a treat!
One of our favorite simple game dishes is pan-fried pheasant breasts served with this tangy sauce. It is also excellent with pan-fried venison cutlets and roast partridge.
For pure comfort food, risotto has few peers. Our elegant version is rich in mushroom flavor. Don't stint on the ingredients: real Parmesan, plenty of wild mushrooms, and a mushroom stock made with Essence de Champignon Gold make it stellar.
Studded with wild mushrooms and enriched with cream and our Demi-Glace Gold, this sauce complements grilled or roasted beef, veal, chicken, or other meats or poultry.
