This Months Recipes:
Maple Mustard Salmon Jasper Lodge Voyageur Stew
Baked Maple Bananas Baked Apples
Here's another way to make your Wild Game taste GREAT!
For quite a few years now a lot of the farms that produce maple syrup hold an open house so that the average citizen can see how much work it entails to make maple syrup. I have heard grumbling many times at stores when your average person wants to buy maple syrup, and gets flabbergasted at the price. But unless you have been there and watch them from the beginning when they start to tap the trees to the end when they have their evaporaters going full tilt do you get the idea what it takes to get that golden liquid bottled and on the shelves. And believe it or not there are so many ways to use maple syrup other than on pancakes or waffles. So I thought, this is as good a time as any. Next year if you have the opportunity to watch this operation in the works, take the time and the family and enjoy the adventure.
| 1 1/2 lbs. fresh salmon fillets | 2 Tbls. Dijon mustard |
| 1/4 cup maple syrup | 1 tsp. lemon juice |
| 1 tsp. white pepper | pinch of salt |
| 1 tsp. melted butter | |
Preheat the broiler. Blend maple syrup, mustard, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Spray non-stick oil on broiler pan. Place fillets on pan and brush with butter. Then spread the mustard, maple syrup mixture over the fillets. Place under the broiler, and watch carefully, so try and leave the broiler door open a bit. If you would like to grill this outside on your BBQ grill, then by all means do so. But watch carefully, because the sauce will have a tendency to burn if your not careful.
| 3 lbs. venison cubed into 1 in pieces | 3 Tbls. vegetable oil |
| 2 cups chopped onions | 3/4 cup maple syrup |
| 3 cups potatoes, skin on | 2 cups turnips, diced |
| 1 cup green onions, cut into small rounds | 4 cups beef stock |
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salt and pepper |
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In a pan heat the oil, add the venison and cook until the pieces are cooked on all sides. This will take a few minutes. Add the onions and cook for 1 minute and then add the maple syrup, continue to cook for at least 3 to 4 more minutes. Put in potatoes, turnips and green onions and cook while stirring for 3 minutes. Add beef stock, salt and pepper, simmer for one hour or until tender. DELICIOUS!!!
This next recipe comes from down south, and it is really quite good. A nice light dessert.
| 2 Tbls. butter | 3 Tbls. maple syrup |
| 1 Tbls. lemon juice | 4 bananas (cut in half crosswise, then lengthwise) |
| 1/4 tsp. cinnamon | Dollop of whip cream( it wouldn't hurt) |
In a shallow microwave baking dish, melt the butter. Then add the maple syrup and stir well. Add the bananas, and make sure to spoon the sauce all over the bananas until they are completed coated. Cook on high for 1 minute, Turn the bananas over and cook on high for another 1 1/2 minutes. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and cinnamon. I like a little whip cream on top, but that is up to you.
| 1/2 to 3/4 cup maple syrup | 1 cup orange juice |
| 1/2 cup raisins | 3/4 cup chopped pecans |
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4 large baking apples, cored and peeled |
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Combine the maple syrup, orange juice, raisins and pecans. Arrange the apples in a 8 inch square baking dish. Pour the mixture over the apples. Bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees, basting often with the sauce. this serves 4.
I hope this gave you a few ideas for using maple syrup other than on pancakes, etc. Until next month. I think spring is on the way. So try out some good home grown and tapped maple syrup. It is great.
Here's another way to make your Wild Game taste GREAT!
Liz Wiesemann (Aiming and Angling Recipes)
co-owner of Pleasant Mountain Guide Service and ChaMaCha Lodge, located in Denmark, Maine. Member of
the New England Outdoor Writers Assoc., also columnist for the Northwoods
Sporting Journal, and other sites.
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