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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Goose Valley Wild Rice -n- Game Hens

I finally had the chance to try some of the Goose Valley Wild Rice sent to me by Nicole.. (thank you again!)

Goose Valley Wild Rice from
Goose Valley Natural Foods






I tried the Fusion package of a brown and wild rice blend....




I brined my hot tub hens in a mixture of water, kosher salt, sugar, onions, garlic, pepper and bay leaves....



fried a few pieces of bacon....





sauteed minced onion and garlic in the bacon drippings...



added chicken broth and the Fusion wild rice blend...

I let the rice simmer on low until almost all of the broth was absorbed...





then placed the pot of rice in my drum with the hens....
I smoked the hens and rice with some hickory and stirred the pot of rice about every 20 minutes, keeping an eye on the moisture content. I didn't want to let the rice dry out.

The rice smoked for about one hour and the hens took one hour and 15 minutes...




had to smoke some brown sugar/cayenne/whiskey spam...again...

















The Goose Valley Wild Rice Fusion was sooo tasty!! I'm really fond of wild rice but had not tried this brand before. It was great!


topped with the crispy bacon...







Thank you again Nicole for introducing me to your products. I'm sure I will be buying Goose Valley rice in the future. :)

8 comments:

OLd Smoke said...

Jeanie
Great looking hens and rice. I was veeeeeeerry close Goose Valley this past week. Burney just over Hachett Mountain to the east. We had a great time but the weather didn't co-operate rain, hail, sleet and sun everyday, BUT we still fished all four days.

Rick

cowgirl said...

Hey Rick, Thanks!
Welcome home from your trip. Sorry to hear the weather didn't cooperate... I bet it was fun anyway. :)
I'm getting ready to leave for a week too. Going camping and hope to catch a few fish.
Good to see ya!

pid said...

after this i think i need to defrost the game hens i have in my freezer. it all looks great, cept maybe that koozie!

pid

Chris said...

Wait, you didn't warn us in the title that there would be naked hot tub action in this post ;)

Great looking birds! (nice touch on the wings and legs being tucked)

cowgirl said...

lol pid, that koozie was a gift from some ornery Texans.
Hope you have great luck with your hens, Thanks! :)

cowgirl said...

Chris... I should have rated it pg13.. lol
Thanks! :)

Nicole (goosevalley) said...

Omg Jeanie! My mouth is watering! The hens, bacon, rice etc!! looks absolutely AMAZING!!!!

cowgirl said...

Thank you Nicole! I loved the rice! Thank you again for giving me the opportunity to try your products, they are so tasty. :)