CHEFS ON THE PRAIRIE
HAVE YOU EVER FALLEN IN LOVE WITH CARROTS TO THE sound of a coyote’s howl? I have, and I did so at the Magee Homestead, a luxury ranch resort between the Rocky Mountains’ Snowy Range and Sierra Madre Mountains in south-central Wyoming. It was there on the lodge’s back patio dining space that I found myself marveling not just at a rippled pasture giving way to sweeping mountain passes, but at an unexpected stunner: variations on carrots.
The dish — with a streak of balsamic vinegar reduction, a base of creamy carrot-infused risotto, on which a thin ribbon of raw orange carrot was propped alongside a foie gras medallion and a slender purple and yellow carrot, finished with a carrot dust — was the fourth
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