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Some chefs from around the country have been using Dr. Mike’s Grassroots Gourmet Brand Blueberry Sage Duck Sausage to create some culinary wonders. Here’s a few of the gastronomic treasures being prepared, from Chef Luca Paris and Chef Christo Gonzales

Chef Christo added some blueberry sage duck sausage to top this remarkable pizza!

Chef Luca made some sauerkraut and onions to top the links!

For a limited time only, you can download the free e-book featuring all of Dr. Mike’s original blueberry recipes from the shows broadcast live from The Florida Blueberry Festival-ands a  whole section of bonus blueberry recipes!. Just like us on Facebook at What’s Cooking with Doc. If you are already a fan, go get your copy now!

As part of practicing The Grassroots Gourmet™ approach, I emphasize starting with wholesome, fresh ingredients as the foundation. Then using spices and herbs along with the base to create delicious flavors and tantalizing textures. Follow this path, and good health naturally follows as form follows function. Do the ingredients really matter? Isn’t an egg an egg, ham, ham, bread, bread? Is a Ford Focus a Ferrari? No matter how hard the little card dreams, it will never grow up to run with those ponies. Is a person a person? Are you exactly the same as everyone else around you? It is You-manity we are a part of, not Unamity. And you are what you eat.

Here is a example by picture (because I have heard they are worth a thousand words, and I am verbose as it is). You may recognize the ever present breakfast take-away; Under cooked and  over processed bread, upon which sits a cheese-like substance. Astride this is a homogenated pork remnant which is capped off by an industrial, invariably overdone, ,egg.

The industrial breakfast take away

Now let us examine the same  ‘ingredients.’ A fresh home made slice of baguette (bread). Smothered upon its face some fine brie (cheese), just a little is needed as the flavor and creaminess come through. A thin slice of aged and crafted prosciutto blankets this (ham) and a free range organic, perfectly poached quail egg (egg) completes the ingredient list. For good measure a bit of crunchiness from a tiny bit of crispy prosciutto elevates the textures.

Fresh slice of baguette topped with brie, prosciutto, poached quail egg and a few bits of crispy prosciutto

Which would you rather be your foundation?

That’s simply why ingredients matter.

Coconut Blueberry Johnny Cakes with Sweet Blueberry Compote

If you couldn’t be there, read all about our blueberry adventures in the Tampa Tribune:

Tampa Tribune Link

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