Walk on the Wild Side Recipe

Hot Liquid Cooking Techniques for Grain | Cooking Wild Rice The three basic techniques for cooking wild rice with hot liquid are boiling, absorption, and steaming, which are perhaps the most popular methods for cooking most whole grains.

crock pot, slow cooker, slow cooking

Useful Tools | Making Gravy | Tips There are many recipes available for making gravy but you will find that most use the turkey drippings, browned pieces from the bottom of the roasting pan, and a small amount of fat to give it great flavor and color.

Quick Tips Allow ½ pound of raw, whole potatoes per person when preparing mashed potatoes. Prior to boiling, cut potatoes into even pieces to ensure even cooking. A few drops of vinegar added to the water when boiling potatoes will help maintain their white color.

Today's trend is to cook stuffing separately from turkey, the reason being safety and speed. Stuffing must reach a temperature of 165º F to kill harmful bacteria. By the time enough heat has reached the stuffing to render it safe, the turkey can be overcooked.

Pasta made with wild rice flour. It is brown in color and has a nice nutty flavor. Wild rice pasta that is made with only wild rice flour would be gluten-free pasta.

A type of wheat bread enhanced with the addition of cooked wild rice. The wild rice provides a delicious, nutty flavor and interesting texture to the bread.

A long-grain aromatic rice that is a hybrid variety of Della rice, which is popular in the southern U.S.

A variety of mushrooms that are not cultivated commercially, but are gathered in the wild such as morel and chanterelle varieties.

A grain-like plant that is not actually a type of rice, but an aquatic grass bearing edible seeds that grows in wild marshy areas of fresh water lakes and rivers.