Buffalo green-filled

January 20, 2015 at 10:26 PM | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Rick and Maggie's food and travel adventures

The title of this post is an obscure pun on the dish we cooked last night and the name of a 1960s North American band formed by Neil Young – one of my top three musical heroes – and the talented egotist Stephen Stills. So, my apologies for being simultaneously corny and opaque when one such sin should suffice.

A month or so before Christmas, I received a tweet that told me buffalo meat was available at Cester’s, our preferred supplier of duck, quail, spatchcock and goat. We’d never cooked a meal of buffalo, so we decided to give it a go and bought about 500g of buffalo fillet, cryovac-protected and frozen. Late last week, with our menu of festive food tapering towards normal summer programming, we decided to go to work on the buffalo.

But what to cook?

A search of cyberspace was not very illuminating, mostly throwing up recipes…

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