Goldfinch in the Sunflowers photo by Don Brockmeier, Photographer in Eustis, NE
Autumn on the prairie is flavored by sunflowers and goldenrod.
Sunflowers, swaying and shimmering in the sunlight attract finches to their seeds and honey bees to their nectar.
The goldfinch picks the seeds, a favorite food and available for the taking.
Honey bees take advantage of the late season honey flow, and they pollinate the sunflowers.
Collecting nectar, their fuzzy bodies pass the pollen from flower to flower.
Photo of bee flying toward the sunflower by Don Brockmeier, Photographer, Eustis, NE
Bees are packing in the honey to prepare for their long winter’s rest in the hive.
I taste autumn’s splendor in the late season honey harvested from the sunflowers and goldenrod growing in the roadside ditches and patches of prairie.
Faces Forward – Don Brockmeier’s ingenious photo of sunflower facing forward and face of bee facing the camera!
The birds, the bees, the prairie dogs show me that autumn arrived, and in their own way they are preparing for short days and a cold winter.
I prepare In my own way, and change my cooking preferences from the hot grill to a low-temp. oven and a long, slow roast.
I will celebrate the first autumn days with a tender, fall-from the-bone Boston Butt pork roast baked long and low with an apple juice baste and brushed with Buzz Savories Honey Mustard.
For those with a smoker, this recipe will elicit raves from your fan base.
Pulled Pork Sandwich with a ribbon of coleslaw, crunch of a cucumber, and sweetcorn, red pepper and cucumber relish. Photo shoot by Robert Scott
Thank you, Don Brockmeier for the glorious photos, and thank you, Robert Scott for
brilliant culinary styling and photography.
See the recipe for a Boston Butt Pork Roast and a Pulled Pork Sandwich below:
Check out the Pollinator kiosk at Earl May stores for Buzz Savories mustards and honey, and find Earl May store locations on the Where To Buy section of this website
August is the gifting month across the U.S.A. Backyard gardens and patio pots spill over with cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, grape tomatoes, cucumbers and red and green peppers.
And notice, I haven’t mentioned zucchini squash because I think if I only whisper about a super delicious zucchini squash recipe that I like to make, numerous large zucchini will appear on my porch with a polite note saying, “I hear by the grapevine that you like zucchini – enjoy.”
It has happened, and will happen again because zucchini vines are producing with abandon this summer.
Easy- to- make and mellow to the taste, zucchini squash fritters bring a delightful upswing to dinners and backyard entertaining. Serve them singly with their creamy, bright sauce and sliced tomatoes for a light evening meal or shove the potato to the side and serve a zucchini fritter in its place to accompany chicken on the grill, a pork chop, rib eye steak. All good.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Equipment
saute' pan or black iron skillet, any heavy bottom skillet
grater
What You'll Need:
1 ½ cupszucchinicoarsely grated
2eggsstir to blend white and yolk
½tsp. baking powder
6Tb.all-purpose flour
3Tb.olive oil
Sauce
¼cupsour cream
2Tb. Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
¼tsp.salt
How To Prepare:
Shred the zucchini using the large whole side of a grater or pulse 3-4 pulses with a food processor. The zucchini shreds easily and beware of over processing Drain off the accumulated juices from the shredding process.
Whip 2 eggs until well mixed but not frothy
Blend the flour, baking powder and egg mixture
Mix with 1 1/2 cups of shredded zucchini
In a saute' pan, heat 2 Tb. olive oil until it sizzles when a small amount of zucchini mixture is dropped in
Pour patties of approximately 1/4 cup of zucchini mixture into the hot oil
Saute' 2 1/2 minutes on one side until patty feels firm and the bottom is nicely browned, flip and saute' until the bottom browns
Serve with a dollop of sauce
Zucchini Fritter Sauce
Blend sour cream, Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard and salt
Drop a dollop of sauce on each fritter, or spoon the sauce into a serving bowl and sauce to taste.
A pancake without syrup is like a fritter with no sauce! Too plain, too simple and boring!
Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard sauce adds a crisp, fresh taste that compliments the zucchini fritter.
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In all times and especially the year of Covid 19, I feel more alive by cooking things and handling things, and making something. At my most content, I’m someone doing something.
Edward Espe Brown writes in The Most Important Point, “I have no Masterpieces, I’m just cooking. I simply cook something moderately good, and have a good time and enjoy eating it. And invite friends over, and enjoy each other’s company.”
Summer Relish
Pickles belong in the “just cooking” category, and when is a jar of pickle relish considered a masterpiece?
So relax and enjoy the process, the color, the vinegary- pickle smell in the kitchen, and the satisfaction of 4 sparkling jars of tangy/sweet pickle relish..
Chicken Sandwich
The Summer Relish I’m suggesting perks up the flavor and adds crunch to a basic chicken sandwich, a vegetarian sandwich (see Black Bean & Spicy Beer Mustard Burgers at Buzzsavoriesllc.com September 17, 2018 recipe) any meat on the grill, a braised chuck roast, a roasted turkey, a pork chop, and hot dog on a stick, a grilled cheese sandwich!
It’s August and cucumbers, cool and elite rule in the garden. Let’s make Summer Relish, and enjoy eating it and sharing with friends.
Farmer’s Market growers are showing me their cucumbers in various sizes and varieties and in good supply. I scoop them up by the sackfuls and make a crunchy, colorful and delicious summer pickle relish. Grab all varieties and sizes of cucumbers, and pick up several pounds of onions and a red pepper too.
Cook something and eat it! The cucumbers are peaking now.
Now for me the fun begins because pickling and canning engage my senses and my thoughts, and lift the angst that Covid 19 inflicts. I like
the smell of vinegar and sugar steaming in the kitchen
to chop and dice and shred
to brine the cucumbers and onions overnight
to wring the brine out of the cucumber and onion mixture
to cook the shredded cucumbers and onions in a sweet vinegar, sugar, mustard syrup
to pack the jars.
to screw the bands on tight
to print a label giving credit to myself for the beautiful and delicious pickle relish
Please see and make the recipe below: The Summer Pickle Relish recipe works easily and the equipment requirements are minimal.
Make a 24 hour cucumber relish that enhances the flavor of a Bean Burger to a Prime Rib. Easy to make and rewarding to the cook
Course condiment
Prep Time 2 hourshours
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 4pints
Equipment
4 16 oz. canning jars with lids and bands
canning salt for the brine because canning salt is free of impurities
What You'll Need:
6large cucumbersfinely chopped or shredded
¼cupcanning saltcanning salt works best because it carries no other minerals or impurities that may discolor the relish
4cupsyellow or white onionschopped finely or shredded
1 largesweet red pepperchopped finely
2 ½cupswhite vinegar
2 ½cupssugar
2Tb.Spicy Beer MustardSpicy Beer Mustard is an Important Ingredient because Buzz Savories mustards mix Turmeric and Allspice and Mustard Seeds into the mustard - each an ingredient that flavors the Summer Relish
1tsp.,celery seed
How To Prepare:
Prepping the Cucumbers and Onions
peel the cucumbers, leaving intermittent strips of green peel on the cucumber for added color and cut into 3 inch chunks
peel the onion and cut into 3 inch chunks
Shred the cucumber and onion with a manual grater on the coarse side or shred it in your Cuisinart. I pulse maybe 4 tines or until every chunk is just shredded, no more.
Place in a nonreactive bowl - glass, stainless steel
Pour 1/4 cup canning salt over the onion/cucumber mixture, mix well and cover with a clean tea towel
Leave overnight or for 4 hours until cucumber and onions release their juices, and the mixture looks wet and soupy
Wring the Juice out of the Shredded Cucumbers and Onions
Place a cotton towel or double cheese cloth over a 4 qt. bowl
Pour the cucumber/onion mixture into the towel or cheese cloth
Pick up the corners of the tea towel and wind them together over your hand, twisting and squeezing. As the towel twists, juices and brine are squeezed out of the cucumber/onion mixture. Work it until the vegetables are just moist but not dripping with juice.Toss the leftover brine.
Making the Pickle Solution
In a non-reactive sauce pan or enamel roaster, mix the vinegar, sugar, mustard, celery seed
Bring to a simmer and stir until the sugar dissolves
Making the Pickle Relish
Finely dice the red pepper
Combine the onion/cucumber mixture and the red pepper into the simmering pickle solution
Cook over medium heat until the onion turns transparent and all ingredients are soft, about 20 minutes.
Separate the lids and bands from the pint jars, and wash the jars in a dishwasher or submerge the jars in boiling water for 10 minutes. Either process sterilizes the jars and heats them - hot to the touch.
Canning the Relish
Organize the hot jars and the kettle of hot pickle relish on a flat surface, placing the jars on a tray or cookie sheet to collect the spills
Ladle the pickle relish into the jars leaving 1/2 inch space between the relish and the top of the jar
Wipe the top rim of the jars with a damp cloth to clean the surface and top the jar with a lid and seal each jar with the band. Twisting it tight.
Cool on a wire rack or folded tea towel
Store in a cupboard or pantry shelf. Shelf life, 1 year.
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I often feel like a Great Western Flycatcher hovering above the earth, fluttering my wings and getting nowhere.
Covid19 news and the sorrows co-existing with the pandemic fill my mind with grave concern, dread and futility.
What’s the point of cooking? Why chop the onions, grill the chicken, plant the basil, parsley and chives?
In my search for simple ways to wake-up and feel alive again, I’m drawn to Don Brockmeier’s photographs of the prairie wilderness. His photos tell an intimate story of birds, insects, mammals doing things and handling things and attending to the business of life and living, serving their purpose yet often playful.
To get my feet on the ground, I’m learning to handle earthly things, avoid carelessness and respond carefully. That may mean scrubbing the pots, cleaning the kitchen and preparing the vegetables and grilling the chicken.
It may also mean noticing the bird song and watching the bumble bee rolling in the pollen,
the Monarch visiting the milkweed
and the Western Flycatcher singing in the stillness of a summer morning.
Western Flycatcher
Simple and profound ways to help me separate from the fears and stresses of this time and to wake up to the moments that are mine to live.
So I chop the onions with care, attend to the pot washing and the grilling, and I search out Brockmeir’s photos to divert my walk of dread into feeling alive and connected to the earth.
I appreciate Epicurious for the Mustard Barbecue Sauce – South Carolinia style http://epicurious.com
Mustard Barbecue Sauce – South Carolina style enhances the flavor of the grilled chicken instead of masking it. I like the slightly sweet, spicy, and rich message to my taste buds. I think you will enjoy, and the directions work exactly as printed. Try it!
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A grilled chicken recipe everyday simple, light in calories and rich in flavor
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Equipment
heavy kitchen shears
What You'll Need:
2 Tbs.olive oil
¼cupapple cider vinegar
¼cup brown sugarpacked
2tspWorcestershire sauce
1 tspgarlic powder
1tsppaprika
¼tspcayenne pepper
½cupBuzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard or Buzz Savories Honey Mustard
5-6 lbs.skin=on, bone-in chicken
3Tbs.kosher salt
How To Prepare:
South Carolina-ish Barbecue Sauce
Mix vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire, garlic powder, paprika, cayenne, and 1/2 cup Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard or Honey Mustard in a medium bowl. Can be made several days ahead.
Preparing Grill
Prepare a grill for 2-zone heat (for a charcoal grill bank two-thirds of coals over one side of grill and scatter remaining coals over the other side; for a gas grill, set one burner to medium-high heat and the remaining burners to medium-low heat. Clean and lightly oil the grate.
Preparing the Chicken
With kitchen shears, begin cutting from the but end on both sides of the backbone. Remove the entire back bone and the neck and set aside for broth or toss. Remove the giblets and the same.
With a sharp knife cut in 2 halves, leaving intact the breast, thigh, leg combination.
Season the chicken on all sides and top and bottom with the 3 Tb. of kosher salt
Grilling
Grill chicken skin side down over direct heat, turning halfway through or whenever there is a flare, until lightly charred, 5-8 minutes
Move chicken to cooler part of grill, cover with lid, and continue to grill, turning several times and keeping covered, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the breast registers 150 Degrees F, 15-20 minutes
Uncover grill and using a brush, generously baste chicken with reserved sauce.
Continue to grill, turning every 1-2 minutes and basting all sides, until the internal temperature o thickest part of breast registers 155 Degrees F and sauce is shiny and lacquered, about 6 minutes.
Transfer chicken to a cutting board. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
July 2020, and I feel like a bug in a bottle or possibly, caught in a chrysalis. From inside my chrysalis, I see hollyhocks, zinnias and hydrangea in bloom, leaves and twigs and grass, and I listen to news reporting on Covid19. I’m fearful of this contagious and ravaging virus, and I hesitate to emerge from the safety of my chrysalis to fully engage in my work, with friends and our community.
A definition of chrysalis – “a transitional state in which a metamorphose takes place,” and I ponder the changes that may endure as I adapt to long term social distancing and withdrawal from the community as I knew it.
At the same time, it’s helpful to remember times in my life that were really sweet, really wonderful, and often it’s a food experience. I remember my mother’s homemade, salty crispy bread sticks, so good with a pat of butter.
I treasure memories of my long ago friend, Julie Hathaway when together we tiptoed through her father’s luxurious vegetable garden and picked English peas, opening the pods with great care to see the pale green pearls arranged 6 in a row.
We munched on the sweet peas, and in the tomato row, we carefully placed our small hands around the warm, plump and vibrant red tomatoes although never plucking, knowing from a young age that tomatoes were serious food (Julie’s mother canned 60 qts. of tomatoes every summer).
Fresh from the vine tomato
Today I like remembering the magical garden and remembering a time when I felt really happy and at home in the world.
Years later, I attempted to grow a garden similar to my childhood memories, and Julie sent me her Tomato Lucia recipe.
Lucia is derived from the Italian word meaning light. I associate tomatoes with warm (hot) and often windy Nebraska days, and showers of sunlight.
Julie’s Lucia Tomatoes taste like summer – earthy, juicy, savory and sweet. A perfect compliment to sun-ripened Farmer’s Market tomatoes.
I reserve a place in my refrigerator for a ceramic casserole filled with Lucia Tomatoes from July to September.
I often toast a thin slice of sour dough bread and layer on a meaty slice of a Lucia tomato. Invite Lucia Tomatoes to accompany your el fresco dining this summer.
If you have yet to taste the Back Alley Bakery sour dough bread baked in a wood-fired brick oven, visit the Back Alley Bakery in Hastings for a loaf Http://www.backalleybakery.com or in Nebraska order Backalley Bakery breads from Nebraska Food Coop http://www.nebraskafoodcoop.org
A make ahead marinated appetizer and/or salad rich with a tomato's version of sunshine and bursting in fresh, juicy flavor
Course Salad
Cuisine American, Italian, Mediterranean
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
What You'll Need:
8largetomatoes, garden fresh
1 ½Tb. Spicy Beer Mustard
½cupolive oil
¼cupred wine vinegar
½cupchopped tender herbs (parsley, basil, chives)or only parsley
1clovegarlic, minced or shaved in your micro zester
2tsp.salt
½tsp.freshly crushed pepper
How To Prepare:
Lucia Tomatoes
Slice tomatoes in 1/2 inch thick rounds
Mix Spicy Beer Mustard and red wine vinegar in a 1 cup bowl
Drip the olive oil into the vinegar/mustard mixture blending into an emulsion
chop the tender herbs into a frizee or the level of coarseness that you like
dice or micro-grate the garlic and add to the dressing
Mix the herbs into the dressing
add the salt and grind the pepper and blend all ingredients
Place tomatoes in a glass or enamel container
Pour the dressing over the tomato slices, cover and refrigerate for up to 3 or more days
Serve on a plate with a sprig of basil and slice of toasted sour dough bread
Lucia Tomatoes
Welcome to the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege, a recent addition to our exclusive retail businesses that feature the Buzz Savories line.
Stroll through the Nebraska Prairie Museum collections including a church, school and farmhouse built in the late 1800’s along with actual machines and items employed in farm work, household, business, entertainment and art of the immigrants who arrived on this prairie grassland with nothing but hope and a vision, and where they built and cooked and sewed and manufactured lifestyles and a community that endure today. See photos of the displays and original buildings of the early settlers at http://www.nebraskaprairiemuseum.com
telephone: 308-995-5015
address: 2701 Burlington, Holdrege, NE 68949
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Mid-June, and Nebraska’s rich earth announces its role in the sumptuous display of vegetables at our Farmer’s Market.
Each bean, onion, potato, radish, asparagus, cauliflower and broccoli clearly speaks-out about its character.
I gather hand fulls of slim and crisp green beans, potatoes so fresh that they pop as I crack them open with a knife, onions – red and sweet.
Green beans, red potatoes, onions connect intimately with earth, sun, sky and water, and
I learn again that what I really want occurs within the ordinary.
red potatoes in steamer basket
Whatever is done will not make a green bean more of a green bean or a red potato more of a potato, or an onion more of an onion.
red onion
Green bean is green bean. Red potato is red potato. Onion is onion.
Buzz Savories June newsletter #2 features a summer salad that combines the ordinary vegetables – green bean, red potato and onion into a savory melange’.
Serve it chilled or room temperature, and this potato salad travels safely so make and take to your picnics. It happily seasons for a week in refrigeration.
Maybe the the top-tasting potato salad for Summer 2020?
Green Bean, Red Onion Potato salad lifts the ordinary trio - green beans, potatoes, onions and with a Spicy Beer Mustard vinaigrette, toward the sublime.
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Equipment
steam basket
What You'll Need:
green bean and potato salad
1 ½ lbs. red potatoesfresh from the garden and washed but unpeeled
¾lb.green beans, trimmed and snapped
1smallred onion, chopped
¼cupchopped tender herbs - parsley, dill, chives
¼ cupchopped basil or a combination of all tender herbs
Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette
¼cupred wine vinegar
½cupolive oil
2TbSpicy Beer Mustard
1 tspsalt
1tspsugar
½tsp.freshly ground pepper
How To Prepare:
Place the potatoes in a large pot, and in a steamer basket, or simply fill the pot with about 1 inch of water. Bring to a boil, and cook for about 15 minutes, or until potatoes may be pierced with a fork.
After the first 10 minutes, throw the green beans into the pot with the potatoes to steam
Steam until both the green beans and potatoes are tender and green beans still firm but can be pierced with a fork. CHECK THE WATER IN THE POT SO THE POT DOES NOT BOIL DRY.
Drain, cool, and cut potatoes into quarters. Transfer to a large bowl
Toss in the chopped red onion
Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette
Chop the tender herbs - parsley, basil, chives, and maybe dill (either, or, or all)
Blend the red wine vinegar and the Spicy Beer Mustard in a carafe or 2 cup container
Drip the olive oil into the vinegar/mustard mixture and stir rapidly to form an emulsion
add the salt, sugar, and pepper and shake or blend again
salad
Toss the salad with 1/4 cup of the Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette and add the tender herbs.Salad need not be drenched with dressing yet every bite needs to taste well seasoned.
Taste and add more Spicy Beer Mustard Vinaigrette and season as you like
Serve immediately or make ahead and refrigerate in a covered container
Garnish with fresh garden lettuce, quarters of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, basil leaves
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Buzz Savories Famous Baked Beans are caramelized, sticky, sweet-tart and smoky, perfect for accompanying grilled hamburgers, hotdogs, steaks, chicken, or a ham sandwich. Putting it simply, these beans are famous because of their flavor and the pleasant chew they offer in the mouth.
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine American
Prep Time 25 minutesminutes
Cook Time 5 hourshours
Servings 8people
Equipment
Dutch Oven or any heavy 6 qt. pot that can go into the oven.
What You'll Need:
1lb.dried Great Northern beans
1tsp.ground allspice
4largegarlic clovescoarsely chopped
4mediumonionschopped
1lb.good-quality sliced baconsliced into 1-inch squares
4Tbs.olive oilfor the vegetarians at your table
⅓cupBuzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
1lb. dark brown sugar
½cupcider vinegar, or to taste
2tsp.Tabasco sauce
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
How To Prepare:
Cover the beans with boiling water and soak 2 hours, or cover with tap water and soak overnight, then drain.
Place beans into an oven-proof 6-quart pot and cover with two inches of clean water.
Stir in the allspice, 2 of the garlic cloves, and 1 of the chopped onions. Bring to a slow boil, then reduce to simmer. Cook beans until soft.
Drain the beans, saving the liquid. Clean the pot.
Set the pot over medium heat and add the bacon. Slowly cook until it has given off most of its fat, but the bacon is not crisp.
Spoon off all but about 4-5 tablespoons of the fat. Stir in the rest of the onions and saute' them until soft.
For the vegetarian preparation, separate desired proportion and spoon the beans into a heavy bottomed pot. Add 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil and a portion of the chopped onions. Saute' the onions until soft.
In both pots, add the remaining garlic and cook about 30 seconds. Return the cooked beans to the pot and stir in the brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, Tabasco, and a good amount of black pepper.
Add about 2 cups of the reserved bean liquid or enough to make a slightly soupy mixture.
Bring to a simmer and taste for sweet-tart balance and salt.
Baking
Bake covered in 325 degree oven for 2 hours.
Uncover and bake another hour, or until the beans are thick and look almost glazed.
As the beans bake, taste them and add more vinegar and other seasonings as needed. Serve hot or at room temperature. They reheat beautifully.
Notes
These baked beans can also be cooked in an InstaPot following InstaPot instructions.
Welcome to the Wildflour Grocer in O’Neill, NE and Andrew’s Garden, Kearney, Nebraska to the Honorable Mustard Merchants. See contact information for these businesses on Buzz Savories website.
Barbara Bailey
Andrew Erickson
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Don Brockmeier, Photographer discovered a fox den near Eustis in early spring, and he returned time and again, waiting for mama fox to show herself and her kits.
Mama fox moved her family soon after the kits emerged from den #1.
Don, with help from a friend who farms nearby the first den found the family again and waited for the exact moment to shoot the amazing photo of mother and youngster at play.
How do I connect foxes with Buzz Savories theme for May – Spectacular Sandwiches?
Covid19 generates worries by the bushel, and seeing the playful foxes in Brockmeier’s photos lifts the thoughts that drag me down, and a Nebraska wind takes them wherever the wind blows.
Buzz Savories is celebrating super-delicious sandwiches in May. I am getting outside to breath the spring air and listen to the bird song, walk in the park or venture on a wilderness trail. Pack a lunch, take a picnic. Invite a friend, keep a social distance.
See two of my favorite sandwiches in the recipes that follow: Fresh Salmon Burger and Polish Dog with Spicy Beer Mustard and Dill Pickle Relish. I appreciate low-lift and flavor-rich food. I thank The Splendid Table http://Https://splendidtable.org for the splendid Salmon Burger recipe. I make and serve these Salmon Burgers often because I like the fresh flavor, and the recipe comes together quickly, and may be served warm or cold.
1 ½lb.skinless salmon filletscut into chunks and patted dry. remove skin by sliding a fillet knife between flesh and skin and siggle it slowly to separate the skin from the salmon flesh
½cupplain Greek yogurt
½cupfinely chooped scallions (white and light green parts only)
1Tb.capers, drained and patted dry and coarsely chopped
1cuptoppings: thinly sliced red and green pepper, avocado, tomato, tartar sauce
How To Prepare:
Put the salmon in a food processor and pulse about 6 times, just until it is finely chopped. Stop before you have a paste! Can chop with a French Chef's knife.
Put the yogurt, scallions, dill, mustard and the capers into a large bowl and stir to blend.
Finely grate the zest of the lemon into the bowl.
Stir in the salmon, gently
Season with salt
Taste for flavor and maybe squeeze some lemon juice into the mix.
Cover the bowl, pressing the plastic wrap or wax paper against the surface of the mix, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours ( the burger mix may be refrigerated for up to 8 hours.)
To make the burgers, divide the salmon into 6 portions and shape each one into a patty. Lightly coat a grill pan or skillet with a small amount of oil or spray and place it over medium-high heat. Cook the burgers in two batches, don't crowd the pan for about 2 minutes on each side - you want to crisp the exterior and just warm the insides.
Wrap the salmon sandwich with double aluminum foil, pack in an insulated cooler or serve at room temperature or chilled. This salmon burger tastes great either warm or chilled. Serve with the toppings you like,
Carroll Novicki, a Columbus, Nebraska resident with a proud Polish heritage introduced me to the traditional Polish Dog, and he invented the Spicy Beer Mustard and Dill Relish condiment to accompany the Polish Sausage and the sauerkraut. Sauerkraut and Polish sausage belong together while the Spicy Beer Mustard and Dill Pickle relish accentuate the flavor of the composition. Make it! Taste it!
Buy the bun of your choice. I composed this Polish with a nontraditional French baguette because in “these times,” I don’t often find the fresh Hoagie Bun for a Polish Sausage sandwich. I also like the crunchy crust of the baguette, fresh from a hot oven.
Andy Anello, trained a grill chef in his college days, constructs a handsome sandwich and brilliantly combines his favorite sandwich-makings, salami, pepperjack cheese, pepperoncini and others. See recipe for Andy Anellos’s Sensational Sandwich Https://Buzzsavoriesllc.com
May 2020, a pandemic coursing through the planet’s population, and we, missing our friend’s faces and all things in 3 D, we attempt social distancing hoping to ease into a return to we know not what?
I am seeing small groups of friends in our spacious parks socially distancing as they munch picnic foods. Set-up a camp chair in a 6′ socially distanced circle, bring a sandwich, share a story, a smile, and some laughs then scurry back to our common state of social isolation and the monotony of the flat screen.
I’m not saying making a pb&j while living in a pandemic feels relaxing or delightful or even pleasant. I am saying that creating a sandwich and inviting 2-3 friends to socially distance (our latest verb?) at a town park among the oaks and maples and lindens settles the stress and briefly lifts the sadness.
In May 2020 Buzz Savories celebrates Sensational Sandwich Chefs – Andy Anello’s Sensational Spicy Rustic Italian, Bob and Shirley Butz’s – Exotic Pheasant on Naan and John Herhahn’s grilled Reuben on Rye.
Each home-style chef incorporated Spicy Beer Mustard or Buzz Savories Honey Mustard into their recipe.
Andy Anello, trained as a grill chef in his college days, constructs a handsome sandwich and tastefully combines his favorite sandwich-makings – salami, pepper jack cheese, pepperoncini and other ingredients.
Andy Anello’s Sensational Spicy Italian
Bob Butz hunts upland game with his hunting dog, Harley. His skillful hunting fills their freezer with tender and flavorful pheasant breasts. No worry for you and me. We cannot access pheasant easily although we can pick-up chicken breasts at our local grocery. The dressing adds plenty of flavor so enjoy the sandwich warm with chicken breasts, naan and the honey/Spicy Beer Mustard/curry powder dressing.
Bob & Shirley Butz’s Exotic Pheasant & Naan
John Herhahn, of German heritage and a master with sauerkraut and ham and rye builds a satisfying sandwich with every melt-in-your-mouth bite.
Spread each side lightly with Buzz Savories Honey Mustard
Layer ham on one side
Then a layer of Swiss cheese
Top with well drained sauerkraut, the horseradish and ketchup
Place the slices together and spread butter top and bottom
Grill both sides in a hot skillet till crisp and melted. Cover the skillet with a lid to melt the cheese
Mask-up and scoot to your preferred meat market to gather the makings for your Buzz Savories Special Sandwich. Toss some kale and lettuce and cucumbers and carrots and zucchini into your cart as well. Each of the above sandwiches may be transformed to vegetarian with a few exchanges. These Meat Markets and grocers in Nebraska also stock Spicy Beer Mustard and Buzz Savories Honey Mustard –
http://Fareway.com/stores/store/169
Manager Ryan Zanker said, “We cut to order and sell beef, pork, chicken, and fresh seafood.” He adds, “We are expanding the Deli to offer Sushi to Fareway customers.”
http://leonsgourmetgrocer.com Another prime Lincoln grocer and meat market I testify for their smoked ham and fresh brats!
http://meats.fritzsbrosinc.com My market in Holdrege, Nebraska and beyond. Fritz’s Meats customers drive 100 miles and more to buy their prime meat products.