Buffalo What?
The die has been cast. The bison has been purchased. Tonight will mark two firsts: my first bourguigon and my first Bison Bourguignon.
After conjuring "lambalaya" recipes for days, I've decided to cap my Musical Meats column with some bison cubes. After all, it's the new red meat. Or perhaps this slogan: "Buffalo--don't feel guilty, there's plenty now."
It wasn't hard to find the meat. I had heard of someone getting buffalo burgers from Whole Foods, so I called their deli department. With some advance notice, they cubed some bison instead of grinding it. I enjoyed a few free orange slices and graham bear thingies and checked out, earning brownie points for not taking a plastic bag.
So what do we call this protein anyway, buffalo or bison? Apparently real buffalo are what you and I call water buffalo. Bison are what we've always called buffalo. So we'll just go with bison meat. At least that way there won't be any confusion with buffalo wings. There will be no blue cheese or celery involved.
Names aside, I face a harder question: Do I use Julia Child's beef bourguignon recipe and trade bison for beef? Or do I go with Bison Centre's "Bison Bourguignon" recipe (which I saw only after thinking up the idea. Honest.)? I'm leaning towards J.C. because I already bought the bacon and the Bison Centre is in Alberta, Canada. Then again, what the Albertans may lack in fine dining, they may make up for in buffalo, er, bison know-how.
Either way, wish me luck. I'm a bourginner.
Labels: bison, bourguignon, musical meats
9 Comments:
Hey, us Canadians raise excellent bison, eh!
You have a good chance of success with your meal even if you follow a beef recipe. The buffalo you bought at Whole Foods is almost certainly a grain/corn finished animal and since you're using chunks of meat, which are usually cooked in a liquid, you won't have any problem with the meat drying out. This can easily occur with bison steaks and roasts because of the lower fat content of bison, particularly if they are pastured or grass-fed.
If you want more recipe ideas check out Toronto based Peter Duffin's bison recipes at Bison Basics (www.bisonbasics.com)
I recommend using his Bison Pot Pie recipe with or without the pastry.
Hey Al,
I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see an "eh" on my blog. I had seen Peter Duffin's site and his abundance of recipes--the Bison Back Ribs was my favorite.
Thanks for your insight, there. The bison was pretty good and lean as heck. One question: any idea what part of the animal I just ate? All I can tell you is that, like the picture says, they were called "Bison Cubes."
Did you use the Julia Child recipe?
Most likely the cubes were from the back legs....top or bottom round is my bet.
I hope to read about your adventures with elk next, cooked in Canadian beer, eh!
Yep, used the Julia Child recipe, partly because I didn't see one for Bison Bourguignon on Peter Duffin's site. I'll have a full roundup on it soon, but let's just say that it took a while. A bit elaborate for my taste, but oh well.
As for elk...I need a break from meat for a bit. Maybe I'll just watch that masterpiece of Canadian film "Strange Brew" instead.
After your experience, Peter is working on a Bison Bourguignon recipe. But he agrees with you that it's elaborate. In his words "this one goes beyond 'basic', it's a helluva lot of work". I recently made a bison lasagna, and that's about as complicated as I want to get.
Thanks Al, I'll keep an eye out for Peter's Bison Bourguignon recipe. Could have used it last Friday--I wouldn't have been blanching bacon and all that mess. I'd say "helluva lot of work" is about right.
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