Red Wine Compound Butter
YIELD: Approximately ¼ Cup 1 Cup Red Wine, your favorite to pair with Strip steak 4 oz/1 Stick Butter, unsalted, room temperature 1 Tsp. Thyme, fresh, picked 1 Tsp. Rosemary, fresh, chopped 1 Tsp. Sea Salt ¼ Tsp. Black Pepper, coarse ground DIRECTIONS In a heavy bottomed pan reduce wine by half over [...]
Pear Bacon Chutney
YIELD: Approximately 1.5 Cups ¼ Lb. Bacon, diced 3 Each Bartlett Pear, cored, medium dice 1 Each Shallot, minced 2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar, light, packed 3 Tbsp. Apple Cider Vinegar 1 Tsp. Ginger, ground ½ Tsp. Cinnamon, ground 2 Tbsp. Cilantro, fresh, chopped 1 Tsp Salt, kosher ¼ Tsp Black Pepper, coarse ground [...]
Bourbon Bacon Jam
YIELD: Approximately 1.5 Cups 12 oz. Double Smoked Bacon, diced 1 Each Yellow Onion, large, diced ¼ Cup Bourbon ¼ Cup Brown Sugar, light, packed 1 Tbsp. Sherry or Balsamic Vinegar 2 Tsp. Thyme, fresh, picked 1 Tsp. Salt, kosher ¼ Tsp. Black Pepper, coarse ground DIRECTIONS In Dutch oven or heavy bottomed [...]
Spicy Berkshire Pork Bulgogi Midwestern Tacos
Berkshire Pork Bulgogi-Midwestern Style It's Cinco de Mayo today! Therefore we have an obligatory recipe post. Typically mixing an English heritage pork breed with a Korean style recipe would be weird enough. Yet we take it two steps further. How about an English heritage pork breed, Korean marinated, with [...]
Remember When We Had a Quarantine BBQ?
Why a quarantine bbq? Spring was early this year in 2020. It doesn’t seem that way with what feels like the world completely shutting down, but it did. Spring. A time of allergies, rain, and for some a muddy lawn from snow melt. But have faith! Spring also means, for all of [...]
Husband and Wife Owned and Operated
How do you start a business with $20 in an unfinished basement with two young children? Tim and Jamie Haas, co-founders and husband and wife team of Premier Proteins and its brand, Red Top Farms®, boil it down to hard work, industry knowledge, and faith. In 2005 the couple, then in their mid-thirties, [...]