March & April 2010
Happy New Year everyone! And because I’m writing this before the Super Bowl I can wish you all luck with the team you want to win. Since the holidays are just over you’ve probably had all the food you can eat and don’t even want to think about it but…..I want to bring a few recipes to your attention that you might want to put on your “to do” list.
First I want to tell you about a company that I just found out about recently. Christy from TRIBAL MOOSE contacted me to let me know about their company and their products. She was nice enough to send me a bottle of their Cranberry Barbeque sauce so I could try it. I used their recipe for chicken wings and put it out for one of the family gatherings at Christmas time. I had many requests for “that wonderful sauce on the chicken.” The company was originally started in Seward, Alaska, and is now currently located in Stayton, Oregon. The products are carried in at least 30 Safeways all over Alaska and in various markets in Oregon. Their products include several variations of their original cranberry-based sauce, including a spicy barbecue sauce, a cranberry steak sauce, and even a cranberry ketchup, of which 100 percent of the proceeds go to the Salvation Army. The company is built around a philanthropic backbone: “committed to changing the world one bottle of sauce at a time.” I’m introducing you to TRIBAL MOOSE so you can visit them online at http://www.tribalmoose.net/ and read about the company yourself, see the products they offer, look at their wonderful recipes, and perhaps taste their products for yourself. I’m the lucky one in that I can pick up what I need in both Valdez and Homer when I’m in Alaska as well as in Corvallis, Oregon, when I go to visit my nephew. Here in Tucson, I just go online and order.
Since this page is supposed to be filled with recipes let me be presumptuous and include one of theirs so you can see how good it looks:
Darcey’s Cheesy TRIBAL MOOSE Meat Loaf
3 lbs. hamburger
1 tablespoon salt
¼ cup soy sauce
½ cup TRIBAL MOOSE all natural cranberry steak sauce
½ cup chopped onions
3 eggs
3 slices of bread broken into small pieces
4 slices of bacon chopped into small pieces
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
In a large mixing bowl mix hamburger and all ingredients except bacon and cheddar cheese.
Divide hamburger mixture into two equal rolls and flatten so that they are about 1 inch thick.
Sprinkle cheese and bacon chunks onto the surface of each portion. Roll and shape each portion and place them into two bread pans.
Cover the tops of each meat loaf roll with a thin layer of TRIBAL MOOSE all natural cranberry steak sauce.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Let stand for 20 minutes before serving.
Now, readers, if you’ll remember, I introduced you to Kyan Kirby a couple of issues ago with her recipe for Banana Pudding. She‘s a retired teacher from Texas and was visiting friends in McCarthy this summer. She emailed me a month or so ago with her recipe for SUMMER SAUSAGE. Bonnie and Rick have tried it already using moose meat and plan to make it again when they get home from Florida. Here it is for all you sausage eaters:
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