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Summer’s Centerpiece – Grilled Sweet Corn

Summer's Centerpiece - Grilled Sweet Corn

Buzz Savories Grilled Sweet Corn Recipes
Sweet corn with a char and Spicy Beer Mustard glaze
Spicy Beer Mustard Charred Corn Relish

For me, sweetcorn is the centerpiece of summer like the Ferris Wheel is to the carnival.  Our mid-summer menus circle around fresh-from-the-field sweet corn.

The delights of sweet corn inspired James Stevenson to write:

“Why am I happy
that I was Born?
the reason (in season)
sweet corn!”

Sweet corn is woven into the fabric of our country’s heritage. Varieties of corn were propagated by the continent’s Indigenous people who were the first farmers.

The tender, sweet, juicy ears ripen in late July, and I bought my first dozen at 8:00 a.m. from a grower at a curbside stand.

So today is the day I celebrate the Centerpiece of summer with my favorite sweet corn recipe – Buzz Savories Grilled and Charred Corn-on-the-Cob.

I like to grill sweet corn until the kernels char, and then slather each ear of corn with a mixture of Spicy Beer Mustard blended with olive oil, garlic and salt then back to the grill for more charring and more flavor.

The 2nd and equally important piece of the grilled corn story involves a time-saving, crisp, light  and savory Corn Salsa that combines black beans, diced red pepper, green onions and herbs mixed with grilled and charred sweet corn and a savory dressing.

Recipes for Buzz Savories Charred Sweet Corn and Salsa follow:

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Bee Notes
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August and the honey flow diminishes meaning nectar producing flowers dry down.  Bees are cranky, and taking the honey supers from the hives requires a huge dose of beekeeper courage and appreciation for velcro and zippers in the bee suit whereas before velcro closures, cranky bees, protecting their summer’s labor could find a tiny opening  in the bee suit and crawl in uninvited and possibly sting the wearer.  Oh, yes, I know of which I speak, and once again, I say, “Bee stings hurt!”

We  check our suits twice for a tight seal around neck, ankles, wrists, then light the smoker, a skill of its own to master, puff smoke into the openings of the hive and especially the top of the hive after we lift the lid. 

Why do beekeepers use smoke?  Smoke calms bees.  When bees sense danger, they release an alarm pheromone called isopentyl acetate from a gland near their stingers. This chemical wafts through the air and alerts other bees to be ready to attack.  Smoking a beehive masks this pheromone, allowing the beekeeper to safely take-off the honey supers.

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Spicy Beer Mustard Grilled Sweet Corn

A simple recipe to celebrate summer with sweet corn, Spicy Beer Mustard, a hot grill and also a Charred Corn Relish
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword Light Dinner Meal, tine-saving, vegetables
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 6

Equipment

  • grill pan for stove top or grill for outside grilling

What You'll Need:

Spicy Beer Mustard Grilled Sweet Corn

  • 2 Tb. Spicy Beer Mustard
  • 1 tsp. dried minced garlic
  • 2 Tb. olive oil
  • 1 tsp. salt

How To Prepare:

  • Preheat grill on medium heat.
  • Whip together mustard, garlic, salt and slowly add olive oil to form an emulsion
  • Brush corn with olive oil and grill for 8 to 10 minutes or until charred, turning occasionally
  • Brush with Spicy Beer Mustard mixture and grill another 2-3 minutes
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Spicy Beer Mustard Charred Sweet Corn Salsa

A light, tangy relish, a time-saver for picnics, parties and lunch
Course Appetizer, Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword Easy Cooking, flavor rich, Lunch, picnic, vegetables
Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings 6

What You'll Need:

Spicy Beer Mustard Charred Sweet Corn Salsa

  • 1 cup (or more if you have it) grilled and charred Spicy Beer Mustard corn cut from the cob
  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 cup red or green or mixed peppers, diced
  • ½ cup green onions, chopped including the fresh green tops
  • ¼ cup cilantro or parsley or basil or oregano, or all together chopped fine

Salsa Dressing

  • 3 Tb. olive oil
  • 3 Tb. fresh lime juice
  • 1 tsp. cumin
  • 1 tsp. salt and more to taste
  • ½ tsp freshly ground pepper

How To Prepare:

Salsa Dressing

  • Whip together the ingredients
  • Mix them with the corn, black beans, onions, peppers and herbs
  • Serve room temperature or chilled - keeps easily refrigerated for a week or more.

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Spicy Mustard Aioli

Spicy Mustard Aioli for Fresh & Easy

Why I Cook

Spicy Mustard Aioli

Fresh, Easy Aioli
Fresh, Easy Aioli

“Cooking is therapy, and the kitchen, a place of sanity. It’s worth having cooking in your life.”
     Francis Lam, Host of the Splendid Table

Whatever the reason, season, or the time, I believe it is worth having cooking in my life.   To me, cooking is like a meditation.  Whatever unfinished tasks, or unsolved problems are worrying  me, when  I step into a  kitchen at day’s end,  my focus turns to  the tasks at hand. I  notice the ravishing color of the eggplant or the sweet and acidic  taste of a garden-fresh tomato.   I note the texture and feel in my mouth when I bite into it. Then I smell  the spice or the vinegar or the garlic called for in my recipe.  

That said, I know that cooking requires attention because when my thoughts do wander to other places, I know I can fail in some part of the cooking process. Cooking asks me to focus.

I cook for therapy. I cook for fun.  I cook for flavor and for my health. I cook because I like eating fresh from a local garden. 

For all the above reasons, I like to make this Spicy Beer Mustard Aioli inspired by the chefs at Epicurious. The recipe is rooted in French cuisine, and I make it when garden fresh vegetables ripen, the temperature rises, and I want an easy, light, chilled and delicious path to nourishing food.

Try it yourself. I think you’ll agree.

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Mid July, and the productive hives are busting out with bees, upwards of 60,000/hive.  The nectar flow is on, the queen is laying fewer eggs because after June 21 and Summer Solstice, the angle of the sun tells her to slow down egg-laying to prepare for the approach of winter.  All bees that can be spared from baby bee care and housekeeping and honey packing are flying to the nectar sources.  In our area of Nebraska, the honey flow correlates with the bloom of yellow clover, alfalfa, yarrow, hyssop, milkweeds, soybeans and other prairie plants.

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Fresh, Easy and Grand Aioli

The recipe is rooted in French cuisine, and I make it when garden fresh vegetables ripen, the temperature rises, and I want an easy, light, chilled and  delicious path to nourishing food.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Easy Cooking, Light Dinner Meal, Quick Meal, vegetable dipping sauce, vegetables
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 8

Equipment

  • wire whisk glass or ceramic bowls and ice

What You'll Need:

  • 1 lb. new red potatoes steam or boil with skin on
  • 1 lb. garden fresh green beans trim stem end
  • 4 large eggs Farmer's Market fresh
  • 4 hearts of romaine, or Butter Lettuce, quartered any fresh garden lettuce
  • 2 medium cucumbers or 4 Persian cucumbers Peel in stripes leaving ribbons of green and slice 1/8" slices
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1 medium bag of ice for chilling potatoes, beans and hard-boiled eggs

Aioli

  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 2 Tb Spicy Beer Mustard
  • 2 Tb fresh lemon juice More if needed
  • 2 tsp. garlic powder
  • ¼ tsp cayenne pepper or more to taste
  • ½ tsp salt add more to taste
  • ¼ tsp. Fresh ground pepper
  • 1 ¼ cup olive oil

How To Prepare:

Aioli

  • In a medium ceramic or glass bowl, whsk together the egg yolks, Spicy Beer Mustard and lemon juice
  • Slowly stream in the olive oil, whisking the entire time until it becomes thick and creamy.
  • Stir in garlic powder, cayenne, and salt and pepper and taste
  • If you would like to thin it out, add a teaspoon or more of water and whisk

Preparation

  • Place potatoes in a medium pot; add cold water to cover by 1" or steam the potatoes. Cook only until tender, approximately 12 minutes. Then transfer to a large bowl of ice water and chill until cold, about 3 minutes. Transfer to towels and pat dry, reserving bowl of ice water.
  • Meanwhile bring another medium pot of salted water to a boil. Add green beans and cook until crisp-tender, 2-4 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer beans to ice water. Chill for 5 minutes and pat dry. Reserve the pot of hot water.
  • Return water in green bean pot to a boil, carefully add eggs, and cook 8 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer eggs to ice water. Chill eggs until cold, about 5 minutes.

Arrange the serving platter

  • Transfer aioli to a serving bowl. Arrange potatoes, green beans, halved eggs, lettuces, cucumbers, and tomatoes on a platter and drizzle the aioli or serve as a dipping sauce or both.

Do Ahead

  • Potatoes, green beans, and eggs can be cooked 2 days ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and chill. Aioli can be made 1 day ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and chill.

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8 Facts About 3 Bean Salad

easy, light flavor rich bean salad

8 Delicious reasons to make a Buzz Savories 3- Bean Salad

Green beans are showing-up in our local farmer’s market (I’ll bet they’re showing up in yours, too) and that makes me happy for their greenness and mild flavor and the nutrients they bring to the table. 

The gentle flavor of green beans lends them to a variety of dressings and sauces. I boil them and serve with a butter and cream sauce or steam them and drizzle with Balsamic vinegar, olive oil and freshly ground pepper. I like to pickle green beans with dill and mustard seeds or boil them the Southern way, long and slow, with onion and bacon. Lastly, I love fresh green beans for my favorite recipe: Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad.   

8 Delicious Reasons to Make a Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad

  1. Easy

  2. Satisfying

  3. Light

  4. Flavor-rich

  5. Picnic proof

  6. Lasts a week refrigerated

  7. Looks beautiful on a plate

  8. Vitamin rich

I make my recipe in its entirety and eat it straight-up in a bowl, or as a side dish for a grilled brat or hamburger. I especially like it with grilled chicken for the added color and savory flavors it brings. As with many things you’ll find on this site, Buzz Savories Honey Mustard is the ingredient that makes the meal. Make it yourself!

See the full recipe below.

3-Bean Salad with arugula

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Bee Notes
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What’s happening in the apiary in hot and sunny July? Young bees are producing wax in their bodies that the workers then chew and add to the honeycomb.

The comb is structured of two layers of six-sided cells, perfect hexagons, with no wasted space between them. Honey, plant nectar and bee bread made from pollen are stored in the cells and the worker bees fan the honey with their wings to make it thick enough to store.

Meanwhile, other bees are tightly sealing the cells already full of honey with a fresh, white beeswax covering that in my experience tastes sweet and warm and chewy like gum. To me, honeycomb, fresh and warm from the hive evokes the Arabian Nights and the luxuries enjoyed by ancient Pashas and Kings.

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Easy, Light, Flavor-Rich 3 Bean Salad

It's green beans season, and fresh green beans are showing up and showing-off their tender beauty in our Farmer's Market. I buy several pounds to make a light, satisfying, full-of-flavor and nourishing salad. Buzz Savories 3-Bean Salad compliments my favorite meats and vegetables on the grill, and stands alone with a fork and a bowl.
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword Buzz Savories Honey Mustard, Lunch, picnic
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Servings 10

What You'll Need:

  • 1 ½ lbs. fresh green beans
  • 1 can kidney beans
  • 1 can garbanzo beans
  • 1 whole green pepper, diced
  • 1 cup chopped tender herbs - parsley, chives, dill, tarragon or combination available

Buzz Savories Honey Mustard Dressing

  • 1 Tb. Buzz Savories Honey Mustard
  • 2 Tb. Rice Vinegar
  • 2-3 lemons juiced (2 large or 3 medium)
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 1 ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp. freshly cracked pepper

How To Prepare:

Preparing and cooking the green beans

  • Clip the stem ends of the green beans and snap in half or thirds
  • Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add 1 Tb. salt
  • Set up an ice bath by filling a medium bowl half full of ice and cold water.
  • Dump the beans into the boiling water and cook for 5 minutes
  • Drain beans and immediately place them in the ice bath to stop the cooking process and preserve their bright green color.
  • Chill until the beans feel cold, about 6 minutes, then drain and dry the beans

Buzz Savories Honey Mustard 3-Bean Dressing

  • Add oil, vinegar, lemon juice, Buzz Savories Honey Mustard, salt, and freshly cracked pepper into a jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake well until smooth and blended.

Mixing the salad

  • Open the cans of red kidney beans and garbanzo beans. Drain and rinse the beans in cold water
  • finely chop the tender herbs
  • In a large bowl, dump the canned beans and gently mix in the fresh green beans and the finely chopped tender herbs and the diced green pepper
  • Dress the salad with 4 Tb. of dressing then taste and add more to taste and taste for salt also
  • Cover and chill. The Honey Mustard 3-Bean salad will keep refrigerated for 1 week or more and is picnic-proof.

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Sumptuous Salmon Filet – in Minutes

Roasted Salmon Fillet

How to Make a Sumptuous Salmon Fillet (in minutes)

Sumptuous Salmon
Sumptuous Salmon

Nebraska, known as the Beef State, hosts Buzz Savories’ corporate office, 6.64 million cattle, and only 1.8 million Nebraskans. Cattle outnumber Nebraskans nearly 4 to 1.

Generally, Nebraskans prefer Beef for Dinner. We buy aged and prime quality beef products, and we grill it, roast it, fry it and make it into meatloaf.

Then we want salmon. A friend who owns a prominent meat market in Nebraska requested a sure-to-satisfy recipe for salmon. He says, “A time comes in mid-week when I want SALMON for dinner. I want an easy recipe that tastes great every time.”

His request became my quest, and I researched and tested and bought more salmon steaks and tested again and again until I finally arrived at Ina Garten’s rendition of a baked salmon fillet. I tweaked it a bit to arrive at the Sumptuous Salmon Fillet, and I dedicate the recipe that follows to Matt at Fritz’s Meat Market. 

Buzz Savories Honey Mustard or Spicy Beer Mustard are must-haves in this recipe. Buzz Savories mustards are blended of seven natural ingredients – yellow mustard seeds, brown mustards seeds, mustard powder, Olde Creamery Stout, cider vinegar, turmeric, allspice, salt, and honey. These ingredients, when blended, packed and heated to 180 degrees F., taste slightly sweet (Honey Mustard twice as sweet as Spicy Beer Mustard), 100% savory and rich with layers of flavor.

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Bee Notes
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Mid June, and we set supers on the hives that are bursting with bees, upwards of 60,000 bees/colony.  These colonies are needing more space to make and store nectar so we add a box of wood frames, called a honey super.  Each super holds 10 frames made  of a plastic imprinted with hexagons. 

The young bees build the beeswax honey containers (the cells) atop the imprints. 

Only young bees make the discs of beeswax that build the honey comb. Soon after a new worker bee emerges, it begins producing wax. The young honey bee workers have four pairs of special wax-secreting glands on the undersides of their abdomens. From these glands, they secrete liquified wax, which hardens into thin scales when exposed to the air.

We usually place 2 supers per hive when the bee population covers and extends beyond every frame in the two brood boxes. A queen excluder separates the honey supers from the laying queen keeping eggs and larvae separate from honey storage frames.

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Baked Salmon Fillet

Fifteen minutes of prep. time, seven minutes in the oven, and a moist, perfectly seasoned salmon filet is for dinner.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Light Dinner Meal
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Servings 4

What You'll Need:

  • 4 6-8 oz salmon fillets or a 1.5 lb. slab of salmon Buy skin on fillets
  • ⅔ cup Panko crumbs
  • 2 Tb. fresh parsley, chopped fine or combine chives, fresh dill, parsley
  • 1 tsp. grated lemon peel
  • 2 Tb olive oil
  • 2 Tb. Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
  • ½ tsp salt and pepper to taste

Lemon and Yogurt Sauce for the Salmon

  • 6 Tb. fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove grated
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. freshly ground pepper
  • 2 cups yogurt

How To Prepare:

Salmon Fillet

  • Preheat oven to 425.
  • In a small bowl mix together the Panko crumbs, parsley, lemon zest, half the salt and half the pepper.
  • Place salmon fillets, skin side down on a board. Brush the tops of the fillets with Spicy Beer Mustard. Brush lightly. No need to pack on the mustard. Spicy Beer Mustard adds flavor and retains moisture as the salmon bakes.
  • Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper and press Panko thickly on top of the mustard on each fillet. The mustard will help Panko adhere and add flavor to the salmon.
  • Heat vegetable oil over medium high heat in a 12" heavy skillet or griddle suitable for baking in a hot oven. When oil is very hot, add salmon fillets, skin side down. Sear 3-4 minutes without turning.
  • Transfer to a hot oven for 5-7 minutes or less until salmon is almost cooked through and Panko browns. Remove from oven and tent with aluminum foil and allow to rest for 5-10 minutes.
  • Check for doneness (salmon flakes when done) I like the thickest part of the salmon fillet underdone because it cooks more under the aluminum foil tent.
  • Serve warm or hot with lemon slices and Lemon and Yogurt Sauce.

Lemon Yogurt Sauce for Salmon

  • Mix and blend lemon juice, grated garlic, salt, pepper and yogurt.
  • Serve with the roasted salmon and garnish with lemon slices and a fresh herb bouquet.

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Buzz Savories Famous Baked Beans

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Buzz Savories Baked Beans

Lily of the Valley and lilac perfume the air in my neighborhood, and I’m thinking of Memorial Day weekend and celebrating friendship, family and ancestors. In Holdrege, and so many communities in America, families decorate the ancestors’ grave sites and then meet in parks and backyards to enjoy picnics, barbecues and deck parties. We are shareing the cooking tasks, and I have been requested to bring my Le Creuset Dutch oven filled with Buzz Savories Famous Baked Beans.

The texture and flavor of Great Northern beans provide the fundamentals for the recipe, and Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard accents the layers of flavor. I serve the beans baked to a caramelized perfection in a savory, rich, tangy barbecue sauce, and I like them hot, room temperature or cold. They pack and carry with ease, and I consider the Buzz Savories Baked Beans one of life’s simple pleasures to make, serve and share.

I thank The Splendid Table for the recipe.

To accommodate vegetarians, I cook the beans as described in the recipe that follows, then divide them into two Dutch Ovens. In one, I sauté the onions in olive oil for the vegans and in the other, I sauté the onions in oil from the bacon.

Great Northern Beans
Great Northern Beans soaking in water.

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What is honey? Honey is made by thousands of honeybees who suck nectar into a special stomach called the honey sac. They create an assembly line and regurgitate that nectar into each other’s honey sacs until it thickens into honey. The bee nearest the honeycomb then spits it into one of those tiny perfect hexagons.  

(Source: Alex Beggs, NewYorker Magazine, May 2021)

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Buzz Savories Famous Baked Beans

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 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Servings 8 people

Equipment

  • Dutch Oven or any heavy 6 qt. pot that can go into the oven.

What You'll Need:

  • 1 lb. dried Great Northern beans
  • 1 tsp. ground allspice
  • 4 large garlic cloves coarsely chopped
  • 4 medium onions chopped
  • 1 lb. good-quality sliced bacon sliced into 1-inch squares
  • 4 Tbs. olive oil for the vegetarians at your table
  • ⅓ cup Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
  • 1 lb. dark brown sugar
  • ½ cup cider vinegar, or to taste
  • 2 tsp. 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.

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Filet Mignon with Spicy Beer Mustard and Mushroom Sauce

Filet Mignon with Spicy Beer Mustard and Mushroom Sauce

Mother’s Day 2021 and I want our celebration dinner to elicit  a “Wow”  response  around the table.

The elegant and easy Filet Mignon with Mushroom and Mustard Sauce (or filet de boeuf a’ la moutarde at aux champignons, as they say in France) impresses guests, and the rich, earthy flavor makes a food memory that endures over time. I thank my Parisian neighbor Sophie for the translation.

Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa (https://barefootcontessa.com)developed the recipe that follows, and I riffed on it too.

I invite Buzz Savories Mustard Mavens to grill the filets outdoors on your deck or patio or beside the picnic table in the campsite by the lake.  Bring a meat thermometer. It’s important to grill only to medium rare or rare to achieve maximum tenderness with every bite and if you are serving grass fed beef.  Grass fed overcooks quickly, so measure temps.

I purchased full of flavor and tender grass-fed beef from Piedmontese beef http://crowdcow.com. The company raises especially tender and tasty Piedmontese beef on grass, and ships in the U.S. arriving frozen at your doorstep.

If you prefer the juicy flavor of Nebraska beef raised on grass and finished with corn, consider ordering from Nebraska Star Beef, a Holdrege Nebraska company. https://nebraskastarbeef.com

Each company raises, finishes, packs and ships a superior beef product.  On the other hand, if you are so fortunate to be living in Nebraska, you can also visit your local meat market for beef raised, fed and packed in Nebraska.

The choice is yours whether to add Cognac or brandy to the sauce. Jane Anello, who first made the recipe, incorporated the Cognac, and I think Cognac adds a mysterious and unique flavor to the sauce. Since the lovely dinner in the Anello home, I make the sauce without Cognac, but I always remember to add the sherry wine at the end of the mushroom sauté .

I appreciate the elegance and simplicity of filet de boeuf a’ la moutarde at aux champignons.  I keep the dinner simple by serving fresh roasted asparagus and a crusty sour dough bread, and if you like, a glass of your favorite French wine.

Enjoy the cooking process and your friends and family seated around table, eat well and write me a quick comment on the contact page.

Happy Mother’s Day 2021!

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Bee Notes
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5 Ways to Save the Bees

  1. Plant a bee garden
  2. Go chemical-free for the bees
  3. Provide trees for bees – bees get most of their nectar from blooming trees
  4. Create a bee bath (a shallow birdbath) to provide water for the bees
  5. Build home for native bees – 70% of solitary bees live underground and 30% live in holes in trees or hollow stems
  6. Search the following website to locate pollinator plants suitable for your county in the U.S.A. https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/

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Filet Mignon with Mustard and Mushrooms

A classic steak complimented by an elegant and simple mushroom and mustard sauce.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, French
Keyword Easy Cooking
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Equipment

  • heavy bottomed skillet
  • outdoor grill or indoor oven

What You'll Need:

  • 4 10 ½ oz. each beef filet (2-inch thick)
  • 2 Tbs. canola oil
  • 1½ Tbs. salt
  • 2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
  • 2 Tbs. unsalted butter
  • 12 oz. cremini mushrooms, stemmed and sliced thin
  • 2 Tbs. dry sherry
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 Tbs. olive oil
  • ½ cup shallots, minced or the whites of fresh green onions
  • 3 Tbs. Cognac or a good brandy
  • 1¼ cup heavy cream
  • ¼ cup Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
  • 2 Tbs. fresh parsley, minced

How To Prepare:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Heat a large (10-inch) cast-iron skillet or other heavy bottomed skillet over high heat for 5-7 minutes. Pat the filets dry with paper towels and brush all over with the canola oil. Combine the salt and cracked pepper on a small plate and roll the filets on the top, bottom, and sides in the seasoning, pressing lightly to coat.
  • When the skillet is very hot, add the filets and sear evenly on all sides (top, bottom, and sides) for about 2 minutes per side.
  • Transfer the steaks from the skillet to a sheet pan and place in the oven for 8-12 minutes, until the steaks register 120 degrees F on a meat thermometer for medium-rare. Remove from the oven, cover the pan with aluminum foil, and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, heat the butter in the skillet that you seared the filets. Add the mushrooms and saute for 4-5 minutes, until they release their juices. Stir in the sherry and cook for 10-12 minutes, until the mushrooms are cooked through. Sprinkle with ½ tsp. salt and ⅓ tsp. pepper. Spoon the mushrooms into a small bowl and set aside.
  • Add olive oil to the skillet, then the shallots, and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add brandy and stir to deglaze the skillet, and cook for 2 minutes, until the brandy evaporates and the shallots are tender. Stir in the cream and simmer for 4 to 5 minutes, until thickened. Stir in the Spicy Beer Mustard and taste for seasonings. If the sauce is too thick, add more cream.
  • Remove the strings from the filets and place on 4 warm dinner plates. Spoon the mustard sauce around the filets. Spoon the mushrooms on top of the filets and sprinkle each place with parsley. Serve hot.

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Honey Cake

Honey Cake

The Honey Cake

The marvelous Buzz Savories Honey Cake stands above the vast array of cakes due to its floral flavor of artisanal honey (Buzz Savories Honey) and a moist, tender crumb and ease of making and baking.  The trick here:  use  local, single-source honey.

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It’s no secret these days that honey bees are extremely important. Bees function as some of the great pollinators in the world. 

Because of their importance to our food crops it is more crucial than ever to support bees. Here are some easy ways to help save the bees (without going full-on beekeeper).

Let Your Lawn Get Back To Its Roots

  1. Put down the weed-killer! Bees don’t have any use for that perfectly manicured sea of green. They prefer something similar to their natural habitat—a meadow.
  2. Think about letting a portion of your yard go back to its roots. Allow dandelions and clover to grow again (two of bees’ favorite delicacies). Not only will you spend less time mowing your lawn, the bees will thank you for it.

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Honey Cake

The marvelous Buzz Savories Honey Cake stands above the vast array of cakes due to a floral flavor of artisanal honey (Buzz Savories Honey) and a moist, tender crumb and ease of making and baking. The trick here: use really good honey.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Buzz Savories Honey,, Easy Cooking, honey
Prep Time 12 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Servings 8

Equipment

  • 9" cake pan

What You'll Need:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flower
  • ½ tsp. kosher salt
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • 6 Tbs. unsalted butter at room temperature 1/4 cup + 2 Tb.
  • 1 cup honey
  • 3 large eggs
  • ¼ tsp. almond extract
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • powdered sugar, for serving
  • cooking spray

How To Prepare:

  • Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. Line a 9" round cake pan with parchment and grease with cooking spray.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder.
  • In another large bowl, using a mixer, beat butter and honey together until butter is smooth and mixture turns white and creamy.
  • Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, then add almond extract.
  • Add dry ingredients and beat until just barely incorporated, then add sour cream and beat until only combined. Beating or stirring minimal at this time.
  • Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bank until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, 35 minutes. Let cool.
  • Serve as is or with a dusting of powdered sugar.

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Jacques Pepin’s Oven Roasted Barbecue Chicken

Jacques Pepin's Oven Roasted Barbecue Chicken

Jacques Pepin's Oven Roasted Barbecue Chicken

Simple, Quick, Savory Roast Chicken

April and  I’m  hungry for barbecue! 

Let’s GRILL! 

But STOP!  I’m forgetting about April showers!  

 

Jacques Pepin’s recipe for oven-roasted Barbecue Chicken brings the outdoors to the indoors and  delivers superb  barbecue in the rain, snow and wind – typical  Nebraska weather in April.

The  Pepin process requires little time, oven roasting 30 minutes, and a gorgeous bird emerges, tasting  sweet/salty/spicy and moist. 

 

Tasting Pepin’s take on Carolina Barbecue   reminds me of my favorite summer festival  in Nebraska -Swedish Days Rib Fest where  I meet the Pit Bosses from across the Midwest who are  competing for awards and eat award-winning barbecue.

 

The Rib Fest is sanctioned by the  Kansas City Barbecue Society, and attracts serious and talented Pit Bosses.

The 2021 Kansas City sanctioned Ribfest is scheduled for June 18-20 in Holdrege, NE. See Holdrege Chamber for  dates and entry forms.

If you are singing  the “Barbecue Blues,”  this week in April,  set aside 45 minutes to prepare and roast a Jacques Pepin’s Barbecued Chicken.

Delicious oven-roasted barbecue chicken to please the pit masters in your home.

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What do beekeepers do  with bees in spring?

Bees have consumed most of their store of honey, and in the spring, they are hungry so I mix a sugar and water syrup with 1:1 sugar and water combination. I boil the water and dissolve the sugar in it. A variety of feeders are available for purchase.  I use both top feeders and side feeders.  The side feeders fit in the same space as a frame in the beehive and being inside the hive, the syrup does not freeze in the winter months and also is accessible to the beekeeper,  whereas top feeders are used best in the spring and fall because they expose the hive to changes in temperature.

I also check to see if the bees survived the winter months, and this year 2021 especially so.  Ten or more days of 0 Degrees F and below concerned me for the the bee’s  ability to keep themselves warn  in their cluster.

I’m happy to report that spring 2021 all but one hive survived the winter!

Gifts and Things in Holdrege, NE

DyEtte and David Bailey, owners if Gifts and Things in downtown Holdrege describe their shop as “The Gift Shop for Everyone.” We have a little bit of everything and create displays throughout the year to showcase our merchandise.

DyEtte and David often showcase Buzz Savories Spicy Bee Mustard, Honey Mustard, Honey and our newest product 100% Beeswax candles on natural oak coasters. Visit Gifts and Things to buy Buzz Savories and also to see a gift shop with practical and elegant and useful and simply pretty things.

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Jacques Pepin's Oven Roasted Barbecue Chicken

For this delicious barbecue chicken, Jacques Pepin splits the chicken and cuts between the leg and shoulder joints to halve the cooking time.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Servings 4

Equipment

  • heavy bottomed skillet

What You'll Need:

  • 1 4-4½ Lb chicken remove giblets
  • 4 large garlic cloves, chopped fine
  • 2 Tbs. Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard
  • 2 Tbs. olive oil
  • 2 Tbs. White Wine or fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 Tbs. Soy Sauce
  • ½ tsp. salt

How To Prepare:

  • Preheat the oven to 450 degrees

Spatchcock the chicken

  • Using poultry shears or any sturdy pair of scissors, cut along each side of the backbone. Remove it. Using a sharp knife, cut partway through the joint between the wings and the breast and do the same between the thighs and also the drumsticks.
    Spatchcock the chicken and spread with mustard mixture
  • Press down on the breastbone to further flatten the chicken. The breast bone will crack.
    Press down on breast bone

Mustard mixture

  • In a bowl, mix all of the remaining ingredients.
  • Turn the chicken breast down and spread it with half of the mustard mixture. I use a pastry brush.
  • Set the chicken in a large skillet skin side up. Then spread the breast with the remaining mixture.

Cooking

  • Spray or glaze the skillet with oil and set the skillet over high heat. Cook the underside of the chicken until it begins to brown, 5-6 minutes.
  • Transfer the skillet to the hot oven and roast the chicken for 30 minutes until the skin is browned and the chicken is cooked through. Temperature at the thickest part of the thigh needs to reach 165 degrees F. on your instant thermometer
  • Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board, cut it into 8 pieces and/or carve the breast for easy serving.

Make Ahead

  • The chicken can be prepared by following the Spatchcock method, spreading the mustard mixture on both underside and skin side and set the chicken in a skillet. Cover lightly and chill in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.

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Corned Beef Sliders

Corned Beef Sliders

Top-Off St. Patrick's Day with Luscious Sliders

Corned Beef Sliders

March 2021, and my groove feels more like a rut with Covid 19 hovering nearby.

 

Even so, let’s toast to the talented and fun-loving Irish among us, invite our friends, and enjoy St. Patrick’s Day  – socially distanced gathering and mask-up.

 

Wear the green, laugh, tell a favorite story and munch on a Corned Beef Slider.

 

I thank my colleague Kim Woods for the recipe. Kim starts with fresh corned beef, places it in a glass casserole with an inch of water, covers the casserole dish, and bakes the corned beef for 2 1/2 – 3 hours at 250 degrees F.

 

If time permits, follow Kim’s advice and roast a fresh corned-beef for added flavor and moist texture.

fresh corned beef

I know that roasting a corned beef offers superior taste.  Never the less, I bought the corned beef in the recipe below pre-roasted and sliced at my local meat market for the convenience. 

My 3 criteria for a recipe:

  • convenient
  • simple
  • sensational
Ingredients for Corned Beef Slider

Fry thin-sliced onions until caramel colored and crisp around the edges. Fried onions add deep onion flavor and raves from your guests.

The sauce ties this luscious package together. Three ingredients including Thousand Island Dressing,  Horseradish cream and Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard add heat in a creamy sauce.

And the winning Sensational Slider! 

Corned Beef Slider

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Who lives in a Honey Bee colony?

There are three kinds of bees in a honey bee colony.

  • One queen
  • Thousands of workers
  • Hundreds of drones

The number of workers and drones changes with the season. The queen increases egg-laying in early spring and decreases egg laying in late summer to lessen the numbers of bees wintering in the colony when their food sources (blooming plants) die off. She increases egg-laying in early spring to prepare the colony for collecting nectar and pollen. The primary work for up 20,000 worker bees in the summer months.

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Corned Beef Sliders

Corned Beef Sliders meld easy cooking with mellow flavors that bring your friends back to the table for another. And the sauce plays a mighty role in this simple and delicious slider.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Irish
Keyword Easy Cooking, Light Dinner Meal, spicy beer mustard dressing
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 8 people

What You'll Need:

  • 1 lb Cooked and thinly sliced corn beef warm the slices in micro-wave or oven
  • 1 cup sauerkraut
  • 1 cup Shredded swiss cheese or 6 slices
  • 1 package Soft slider pretzel rolls or slider buns or 1 package King's Hawaiian rolls sliced in half to form top and bottom sheet

Corn Beef Slider Sauce

  • ¼ cup Thousand Island Dressing
  • ¼ cup Horseradish Sauce find sauce in condiments and not actual horseradish
  • ¼ cup Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard

How To Prepare:

Corned Beef Slider Sauce

  • Combine equal amounts of Thousand Island Dressing, Horseradish Sauce and Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard in a small bowl

Corned Beef Sliders

  • Line a baking sheet with foil and place bun bottoms on the foil
  • Add a layer each of corned beef, saurkraut, Swiss cheese, and the spicy dressing
  • Place tops on the buns
  • Cover the sliders with aluminum foil
  • Heat oven to 350 Degrees and bake the Sliders for 10 minutes then remove the foil and bake for another 10 minutes or until bun tops are slightly brown and Swiss cheese is melting.
  • Serve hot and make plenty since these little Sliders delight the taste buds

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