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Middle Eastern Partridge Pizza
This Middle Eastern Pizza is the fifth and last gamebird related pizza I'll be posting for the month of July. Instead of a traditional tomato-based pizza sauce, I'm using Hummus, which is a dip made from Chickpeas. While I'm using Sumac to season my Hummus, Sabra sells a spicy hummus which would also be good in this recipe. I'm including instructions on how to make your own Hummus, but using a store bought brand will be a big time saver.
Smoked Chukar White Lasagna
We live on a small acre sized lot, in the middle of town, not a lot of room to have your own garden. It takes me about fifteen minutes to cut the grass. I wanted to plant my own garden, but I lived to far from the family's farm to do it there, so I built a small, raised bed garden in the backyard. It's three beds, roughly eight foot by ten foot each. In the beginning, I justified building it, thinking that I'd easily be able to get enough groceries out of it to justify the cost ... man was I wrong. Somehow, I keep finding new ways to put money into it. I have the lumber cost and all the dirt that I moved in to fill up the beds, plus I installed an irrigation system, so it'd self-water itself. I even installed a solar panel to charge some batteries to power a camera to take still images of the garden while it grows, so I could create a time-lapse video at the end of the growing season. Plus, I installed the world most boring live web cam, so I can remotely check the garden any time I wanted. I'll soon be adding temperature sensor for the air and soil, a humidity probe, and I plan to add a weather station to record rain fall amount and wind speed. To say that I've gotten carried away with my little garden project would be an understatement.
Chukar Stock
Ive had a few Chukar recipes on the site where I needed to make a stock as part of the process. I wasn't willing to substitute chicken stock or pheasant stock in my recipes that featured Chukar, but there is no reason I couldn't have. For those recipes, I wanted to amp up the Chukar flavor, and part of my plan was to just do a quick stock while cooking the birds. This was done to save time, kind of killing two birds with one stone. The problem with doing it that way, is that the stock I ended up with was paler in color than what I would have liked, and the flavors weren't as bold ... it was still good and worked for what I wanted, but I knew I could do better. When I came up with the idea for doing another Chukar recipe for the site, a Chukar Lasagna, I knew I wanted to up my Chukar Stock game as well. So, I set out to cook my birds beforehand this time, all I had to decide was how I wanted to do that. A few years ago, for Fathers Day, my wife and kids got me a Smoker. I absolutely love it! I could spend all day just sitting on the back porch watching smoke roll out of it and smelling the food cook. I love smoking Turkeys, Chickens, Ribs, Salmon, Sweet Potatoes, really anything else I can get my hands on. So, it wasn't much of a decision when I decided to smoke these little Chukars before making this stock, but there's no reason I couldn't have roast them or even grill them.
