Gameday Gamebird Boudin Kolache
With our Tennessee Titans knocked out of the playoffs, we'll be watching the rest of the playoff games from the comfort of our own home. That's means we'll be cooking lots of finger foods, sitting around watching all the games and getting fatter. This year I thought I'd try to make a version of the doughnut shops Boudin Kolache's to eat during the game. These can be eaten by themselves or served with a dipping sauce. While these are not a traditional `Kolache`, by any means, that's what I'm calling them. I'm not looking to get into any arguments about what a Kolache is. I know a traditional Kolache is a sweet pastry filled with fruit or jam. Instead of using actual Kolache dough, I'm using crescent roll dough ... because it's Super Bowl weekend. I want to watch the game, not spend all day in the kitchen. To be fair, I'm including a recipe for Kolache dough, in case somebody doesn't like shortcuts or is brave enough to attempt it.
Sometimes you'll see Texas Kolaches, which is Smoked Sausage and Cheese wrapped in Kolache dough, also called Klobasneks. That's kind of what I'm doing here, but instead of Smoked Sausage, I'm using Boudin, which is just Sausage, Rice, and other seasonings. If you wanted to make a "Texas" version of this, you could just cut the Smoked Gamebird Sausage into small bite size piece, add some Cheese and Jalapeno's and roll it up in crescent roll dough, like a pig-in-a-blanket.
About the Author : Jeff Davis
Visit authors website | View more articlesYou may think cooking and recipes don’t have much to do with a website dedicated to hunting dogs ... but really, why do we hunt? Sure, we enjoy watching our dogs work in the field and being outdoors, but ultimately, hunting is about survival and feeding our families. We might as well try to do it well. I'm not a chef and definitely no food authority ... but I do like to eat and enjoy cooking. After searching for people willing to share their recipes on Gundog Central, without much success, I decided to try to do a few on my own, with my wife Tami's help. The recipes I share here are things I like to eat and have made here at home. I've tried to include step-by-step instructions with each meal describing exactly how I did it, but my method may not be best, if you decide to try a recipe posted here, please use whatever technique you think works best, I'm simply sharing how I did it. You'll see a lot of recipes where I've tried to make things from starch, when I could have just used store bought ingredients, simply because I wanted to learn how something was done. My goal is to continually update these recipes as I learn new things and techniques. These are my attempts at creating good, home cooked food, that I would like to eat! If I'm sharing it here, my family and I enjoyed it and I believe you will too.
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