{"id":5640,"date":"2005-03-03T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/03\/5640\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T17:43:44","slug":"venison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"Venison!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had venison- I had bought some frozen &#8220;medallions&#8221; (actually they were 4 oz steaks&#8230; why did they label them medallions?) a week ago on impulse.  Much richer than beef, plus it doesn&#8217;t make gaping holes of rot in your brain.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>I had intended to just roast them or something&#8230; but Diane, even though she doesn&#8217;t really eat meat, was suddenly inspired and I ended up having roast venison with a pepper rub, served with caramelized shallots and shiitake and organic potatoes in a port reduction.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Actually last night is kind of a haze- I went to Berkeley Bowl and bought a lot of pretty crazy things.  I have a policy of buying one completely new thing each visit&#8230; and let&#8217;s just say I went way over quota last night. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>For &#8220;dessert&#8221; after my venison I had <a href=\"http:\/\/stbenoit.com\/\">St. Benoit yogurt<\/a>.  I can&#8217;t really recommend this (bland, expensive, bad texture), but it did come in a ceramic jar.  A single serving of yogurt, with plum flavor in the bottom, in a ceramic jar.  Are you intended to just throw the jar in the trash?  You can&#8217;t recycle it.  Reading their site, apparently you are supposed to bring it back to the store.  Isn&#8217;t that precious. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Bah!  I&#8217;m sticking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browncowfarm.com\/\">Brown Cow<\/a> &#8220;cream top.&#8221;  Mmmm fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had venison- I had bought some frozen &#8220;medallions&#8221; (actually they were 4 oz steaks&#8230; why did they label them medallions?) a week ago on impulse. Much richer than beef, plus it doesn&#8217;t make gaping holes of rot in your brain. I had intended to just roast them or something&#8230; but Diane, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}