Roasted Squash Salad with Turkey and Wild Rice

This recipe was adapted from a Faro and Black Rice dish featured in Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home cookbook. We’ve adapted a number of Keller’s recipes to our Great Lakes tradition (see here and here) and we continue that approach with this recipe that features wild rice and roasted turkey. We are replacing the [...]

Beer “Cheese” Soup – Vegan with Roasted Squash

I have always enjoyed a good beer cheese soup; rich, creamy, satisfying deep in the belly. A traditional German soup prepared since medieval times, it’s simply a combination of stock, beer, and cheese thickened with a starch (such as flour, stale bread, or potato). Here in Wisconsin, with our substantial German heritage, the soup is [...]

Whitefish Bratwurst

As I’m watching season 7 of Chef’s Table, episode 3 covers Angel Leon and his quest to promote seafood charcuterie. His restaurant, Aponiente in Cadiz, Spain, has now been awarded 3 Michelin stars and Chef Leon is passionately committed to taking local ingredients and transforming Spanish cuisine. One of the big innovations was to make [...]

Restaurants Updated

The Restaurants page has been updated; always a bittersweet process. There is a bitter taste with the closing of a restaurant and some were real favorites. On a much sweeter note, a number of new restaurants have been added to our lists of Great Lakes representative restaurants, inspired in part by the recent James Beard [...]

Rye-crusted Walleye with Horseradish Sauce

A recent trip to Harvey House in Madison featured a walleye entree with a horseradish sabayon which was revelatory. The texture of the sabayon was souffle-light and the horseradish created a sensation of enhanced aroma for the entire dish. Paired with rye crusted walleye and spaetzle, it provided a hint to answer a question posed [...]