Alaskancranberrydumplings Recipes

Steps:

• To a large stockpot with a steamer insert, add beer, lemons and garlic and bring to a boil. Add crab legs and cover. Steam for 5 minutes or until crab is cooked through. Serve with drawn butter.

Steps:

• Place the cranberries in a saucepan, cover with water, and simmer until the berries have burst and the water is colored. Drain, reserving the liquid. Set both aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together the sifted flour, salt, and baking powder. With a pastry blender or a couple of knives, cut in the chilled butter until the mixture is a bit smaller than pea-sized.
• Make a well in the middle of the mixture, then pour in the milk and quickly stir it until it just sticks together to form a dough.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board and knead gently for no more than 10 times. Wrap the dough loosely in waxed paper and chill it in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to make it easier to handle.
• About 60 minutes before you intend to serve the dumplings, roll out the dough on a lightly floured board until it is about 1/4-inch thick, and cut into 4-inch squares.
• Fill the center of each square with a bit of the cooked cranberries (you can put each square into one of those tiny mini-muffin tins, to make it easier) and sprinkle each generously with sugar and cinnamon to taste. Wet the edges with a small amount of water (not too much!), fold the dumplings over and pinch them closed. Prick the tops.
• Re-heat the reserved cranberry juice from the berry cooking in a saucepan to simmering. Cook the dumplings in the juice (in batches, if necessary) for about 15 minutes until done. If you don't have enough liquid from cooking the berries, you can augment with commercially prepared unsweetened cranberry juice with water added until it tastes like the cooking liquid.
• Goes really well with duck, pork, and turkey dishes.
• Note: if you're in a hurry, you can also use wonton wrappers instead of making your own dough. If you use them, the cooking time for the dumplings will be less.

Steps:

• Chop cabbage into large chunks and steam until clear in color; drain.
• In same pan melt butter, sauté onions, add seasonings and cabbage.
• Dumplings:.
• Measure flour in to a deep bowl. Make well in middle of flour. Add eggs and seasoning. Start beating eggs and gradually mix flour into eggs; will make a stiff dough. If too dry add a little milk. Drop about 1/4 tsp into boiling water. Best if spoon dipped into hot water after each dumpling - they will come off the spoon easier. Dumplings are done when they float to the top.
• Remove dumplings directly to cabbage mixture, combine and enjoy.
• I have successfully served in a crock pot on low setting for parties.

Steps:

• To a large stockpot with a steamer insert, add beer, lemons and garlic and bring to a boil. Add crab legs and cover. Steam for 5 minutes or until crab is cooked through. Serve with drawn butter.

Steps:

• Catch your grouse and gather your blueberries. Pluck and clean the grouse, rinsing inside and out. Pick over the blueberries and wash and drain them well.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Season the grouse both inside and out with salt and pepper. In a small saucepan combine the oil, lemon juice, and rosemary and heat to warm, whisking together. Coat the inside and outside of the grouse well with the oil mixture, keeping any of it that is left over, for later.
• In a bowl combine the sugar, blueberries, and melted butter, stir to coat. Stuff each grouse with a quarter of the blueberry mixture (don't forget the juice, too). You can put an additional pat of cold butter at the end of the bird, if you like.
• Sew or skewer each grouse shut, the loosely wrap each bird in aluminum foil; although loosely wrapped you need to make sure that the packages are tightly sealed. Place packages, breast side down, on a cookie sheet with sides or roasting pan and roast at 425 degrees F for 30 minutes.
• Carefully open the packages and pour the juices from the cooking into a small saucepan, then turn the birds breast side up on the foil (leaving the packages open) and return them to the hot oven to brown, about 10 minutes, basting with the oil mixture.
• While birds are browning, mix a small amount of cornstarch together with a little cold water and whisk into the saucepan containing the juice from the birds. Heat over medium to thicken. If there's not enough juice for your taste you can add a little unsalted chicken stock, but you don't want to overpower the blueberry and grouse flavor. Season sauce to taste with a bit of salt and freshly ground pepper.
• When birds are browned, place on serving platter and pour over the thickened juices. Serve with pilaf and greens.
• Makes 4-6 servings.
• Note: there's a big difference between the taste of dried and fresh rosemary, because of the strength of the rosemary oils, so I hesitate to give an amount for the fresh. I'd always prefer to use fresh over dried.

Steps:

• To a large stockpot with a steamer insert, add beer, lemons and garlic and bring to a boil. Add crab legs and cover. Steam for 5 minutes or until crab is cooked through.