Purple

One of Shannon's friends gave us a bison roast last week and since I love bison so much and Shannon has been picking berries lately, I figured I'd make a Mustard Thyme Bison Roast with Saskatoon Sauce. Part of me feels a little strange pairing fruit with meat, even though it's quite delicious. I mean, people put cranberries on turkey whether the occasion calls for it, so why not with red meat as well? The sauce was surprisingly tasty, but the roast was a little disappointing. This is solely because I didn't realize I was making a blade roast until after I pulled it out of the oven. Luckily I checked it while it was still quite rare, so I stewed the remaining meat and now have a fridge full of tenderized buffalo stew currently serving no real purpose whatsoever. I bet that if you combined the sauce with the stew and made a sort of savory tart that would be quite delicious.

I decided to go with a purple theme after picking up some purple cauliflower. Aside from turning the water an indigo blue, there really doesn't seem to be anything special with it flavor-wise. I'm not even sure what they crossbred with the cauliflower to make it look that way. Eggplant? Kale? Red Cabbage? Perhaps it's just dyed. Anyhow, my Cauliflower Provencal cut a few corners and still managed to be quite satisfying. I thought it would've been much better if it had a thicker sauce to it, so maybe next time I make this I will prepare an actual tomato sauce instead.

For dessert I baked up a Saskatoon Crisp, which was basically a variation of the Strawberry Rhubarb Pandowdy recipe I made a couple months ago. From what I've now learned I don't think what I made previously was a pandowdy at all, but that's part of the silliness that occurs when you're flying by the seat of your pants. Several people ate it and all enjoyed themselves. I did, too, so I reckon it's a winner. It's hard to screw up crumbled topping fruit though. For those that don't know, I suppose I should mention that saskatoons are a wild berry that grow up here in Alberta. Blueberries would likely be a perfectly acceptable substitute. Blueberries also happen to be in season right now and I've been eating a pound a day. My pee looks like purple cauliflower water. (Just kidding.)