Chef Showdown: Local Foods - Crystal Mountain Resort's Darren Hawley
Executive Chef Darren Hawley of Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville prepares Smoked Pheasant and Morel Galantine with Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Gateau for MyNorth.com's local foods video showdown.
When MyNorth.com challenged Crystal Mountain Resort's Executive Chef Darren Hawley to our local foods showdown he accepted with gusto and prepared an exquisitely delicious Smoked Pheasant and Morel Galantine with Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Gateau for a MyNorth.com video. In accordance with the rules of the showdown, 90 percent of the ingredients for this dish are from Northern Michigan and another 5 percent are from Michigan, making it a 95 percent made-in-Michigan dish.
Watch the video to learn Chef Hawley's technique. Then click to find the recipes for Smoked Pheasant and Morel Galantine and Pickled Beet and Goat Cheese Gateau.
Here is a list of the local ingredients Hawley used in the dish:
- Pheasant, Bakers Green Acres, Marion, 231-825-0293
- Pork Butt, Rice Centennial Farms, Benzonia, 231-882-5937
- Morels and wild leeks, locally foraged by the Hawley family: Darren, Meghan, Jack, Emma, Wynn, Grace and their new puppy, Elizabeth
- Lovage and mizuna lettuce, Werp Farms, Karlin, 231-263-2111
- Red pepper flakes, Mike Sandberg, Manistee
- Beets, Victory Farms, Hudsonville, 616-669-7695
- Goat Cheese, Halpin's Land of Goshen at Douglas Valley, Manistee, 231-360-7176
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