Hot Sauced Shad Roe with Green Chile & Cheese Eggs

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You can actually use any fish roe in this recipe, so ask your local fishmonger what is available. If you’re in Richmond in April, you’ll find this breakfast shad recipe in restaurants. Of course, you won’t find the green chile eggs, as we do that here in New Mexico. This recipe will not win any awards from the Food Police.

Ingredients

  • 4 shad roes

  • 1/4 cup bacon drippings, melted

  • 1 tablespoon butter

  • 6 eggs, beaten with a little milk

  • 1/4 cup chopped green chile

  • 1/4 cup grated pepper jack cheese

  • Hot sauce of choice

Instructions

In a skillet, combine the shad roes and the bacon drippings and fry the roes for about 10 minutes, turning several times. When the roes are half-done, in another skillet melt the butter, add the eggs and scramble with a fork. When the eggs are nearly done, add the green chile and cheese. To serve, sprinkle the roes with your favorite hot sauce and place next to the eggs.

Spicy Morel Sauce for Meat and Poultry

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The odd-looking morel does not have a cap but rather a fruit body about four inches long that is pittted and resembles a honeycomb. Since the darker the mushroom, the stronger the flavor, the morel is prized as one of the strongest mushrooms with its earthy and smoky flavor. It is related to truffles, but far more common. They are spring mushrooms, available fresh from April through June, although specialty markets will have them all year long in the dried form. They are easily rehydrated. Morels are particularly common in the midwest, and a festival is devoted to them in Boyne, Michigan. Since morels have never been successfully cultivated, mushroom lovers depend upon foragers. A word of caution: never eat morels raw, as they contain toxic helvellic acid, which is destroyed by cooking.

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup water

  • 1/4 cup sugar

  • 1/4 cup red-wine vinegar

  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar plus additional to taste

  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter

  • 24 fresh morels (about 1 pound),cleaned and trimmed (or 1 ounce dried morels, soaked, reserving 1/2 cup soaking liquid)

  • 1/3 cup finely chopped shallots

  • 1 teaspoon cayenne

  • 2 cups dry red wine

  • 2 cups chicken stock

 

Instructions

In a small heavy saucepan, boil the water with the sugar, without stirring, until a golden caramel color results. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully add the vinegar and balsamic vinegar down the side of the pan. Stir the mixture over moderate heat until the caramel is dissolved, about 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.

In a heavy saucepan cook the morels in butter, stirring, over moderate heat until liquid from morels is evaporated, about 5 minutes. Transfer the morels with a slotted spoon to a bowl and reserve. Add the shallots and the cayenne to the pan and cook, stirring, until golden. Stir in the wine and boil until reduced to about 1 cup, about 15 minutes.

Add the stock and reserved morel soaking liquid (if using dried morels) and reduce to about 1 1/4 cups, about 15 minutes. Remove the pan from heat and stir in caramel mixture. Add the morels to sauce with salt and pepper to taste. You can serve the sauce as is or processed in a blender or food processor.

Award Winning Barbeque Sauce

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To the members of the Madd Momma and The Kid barbecue team, sauce should be a finishing touch and only used during the final stages of barbecuing. In this recipe, they use honey to get the sweet heat they like.

This recipe and others can be found in the following article:

The Heat of Competition: The Jack Daniels’ Championship

 

Ingredients

  • 1 32-ounce bottle ketchup

  • 3/4 cup brown sugar

  • 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce

  • 1 teaspoon black pepper

  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 3/4 cup white vinegar

  • 3/4 cup honey

Instructions

Combine all the ingredients in a sauce pan. Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Do not let the mixture boil. Allow sauce to cool; then store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

 

 

The Prime Minister’s Hot Sauce

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Here is the hot recipe of the famous Errol W. Barrow, who was Prime Minister of Barbados from1961-76 and again from 1986 until his death in 1987. He was also an accomplished cook, and published Privilege: Cooking in the Caribbean (Macmillan Caribbean) in 1988. He noted: “Pepper sauce recipes can be adjusted to suit individual tastes: green papaya, green mango may also be used.” We have modified this recipe slightly for the food processor-enhanced kitchen.

Ingredients

  • 6 large bonney peppers, seeds and stems removed, chopped

  • 1 large onion, coarsely chopped

  • 2 small cloves garlic

  • 1 tablespoon mustard

  • 1 tablespoon white vinegar

  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

  • 1/2 cup chopped carrots

  • 1 cup water

  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and boil for about 15 minutes. Adjust the consistency with water. Puree in a food processor or blender and bottle in sterilized bottles.

 

Deep-Rubbed, Slow Roasted Pork Ribs

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Most barbecue cooks have their favorite dry rub recipe. This one is from the National Pork Producers Council. It calls for rinsing the rub off the ribs before cooking, a technique some cooks might choose not to use. The ribs can be rubbed and kept refrigerated for up to two days.

This recipe and others can be found in the following article:

The Heat of Competition: The Jack Daniels’ Championship

 

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup coarse salt

  • 1/4 cup dark brown sugar

  • 4 garlic cloves, minced

  • 2 tablespoons minced yellow onion

  • 4 teaspoons crushed black pepper

  • 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes

  • 1 teaspoon crushed thyme

  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger

  • 1 /2 teaspoon ground cloves

  • 1 /2 teaspoon ground allspice

  • 4 pounds pork back ribs

Instructions

Mix all rub the ingredients together in a small bowl. Thoroughly rub the mixture over all surfaces of the ribs. Refrigerate the ribs, covered, for up to 2 days.

Remove the ribs from the refrigerator, rinse the ribs thoroughly and pat them dry. Cook the ribs over indirect heat, with a banked medium-hot fire in a covered grill, for 1 1 /2 to 2 hours, turning occasionally, until very tender.