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Filed under: Hors D’oeuvres, Meat, Feast Your Eyes, Summer

Lamb medallions. Photo: Pham Fatale

Gazing upon Pham Fatale’s perfect peppercorn-encrusted medallions of lamb on rounds of onion-flecked baguette, it’s easy to imagine them being devoured in a shady spot following an afternoon in the summer sun with friends.

Seared, roasted and dolloped with “Dijonnaise” (mustard, lemon juice and creme fraiche) and a sprinkle of crisp garlic chives, these colorful, two-bite-size hors d’oeuvres would make a wonderful dinner alongside a mixed green salad and a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon or Rioja. Pham Fatale’s recipe is right on the page, so a reader might — irrespective of whether her name is Mary — have a little lamb.

[Via Pham Fatale]

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The hamburger is a many splendored and spangled dish. And nowhere, perhaps, is the burger more spangled than in Salt Lake City, where it can be found topped with a quarter pound of pastrami.

The good news: You’re going to dinner with Nora Ephron. The bad news: You’re cooking.

Filed under: Beef, How To, Meat, Guilty Pleasures, Head to Tail

Cow head in banana leaves at Hill Country. Photo: Kat Kinsman

There comes a time in every girl’s life — when she’s ripping open the long-braised skull of a short-lived calf in order to better wobble out its beer-marinated brain — that she smiles contentedly and realizes she loves her life an awful lot. Then she goes for the eyes.

Well OK, not every girl’s life — but at least those of a troika of squeam-free dames including Hill Country’s executive chef and cookbook author Elizabeth Karmel, Homesick Texan writer Lisa Fain and lucky, lucky me. And it all happened because of Twitter.

See a step-by-step barbacoa making slideshow and read a description after the jump. Warning — it’s not for vegetarians or the faint of stomach.

Continue reading How to Cook a Cow Head in New York City

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Silver Fern Farms hopes to raise $80 million but could potentially raise $128 million through its proposed capital restructuring.

Chief executive Keith Cooper said the money would be used to reduce debt, including the $75 million…

Thursday's vote by Silver Fern Farms shareholders on a new capital structure for the company, is more than a poll on whether they are happy to inject new capital into the co-operative.

As with the vote last September in favour…

The good news: You’re going to dinner with Nora Ephron. The bad news: You’re cooking.

The good news: You’re going to dinner with Nora Ephron. The bad news: You’re cooking.

The good news: You’re going to dinner with Nora Ephron. The bad news: You’re cooking.

The good news: You’re going to dinner with Nora Ephron. The bad news: You’re cooking.