“A familiar face on morning news shows, Pellegrini is well on her way to creating and building a standout brand.   We’re quite a bit in awe of this, and wonder what would happen if more of us female ex-financiers carried shotguns around.” – Forbes

Forbes profiles Georgia as one of ‘Five Successful Female Entrepreneurs Who Pivoted Out of the Finance Industry’

“….Girl Hunter should win a National Book Award. Vegans, vegitarians, beware….you are mere adolescents. This is adult stuff. Meat with no excuses. Read it…..be enthralled.” – Velkommen

MV Velkommen reviews Georgia’s Girl Hunter: Girl Hunter - revolutionizing the way we eat, one hunt at a time

I’m excited to share that Clover Pass Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska is sponsoring an all expenses paid fishing trip for one lucky winner to join me for 5 days this coming August 7th-12th.

Here is what the trip includes:

• A Donation in Your Name to Breast Cancer Research
• Air Transportation to Ketchikan, Alaska
• 5 Nights Accommodations
• All Meals
• All Equipment
• All Fish Processing (unless you want to get your hands dirty with me)
• Ground Transportation to and from Ketchikan
• Four Days Fishing: 1 day guided fishing, 2 days self-guided fishing, 1 day Pink Ladies Classic tournament with prizes
• Fishing Workshops all week
• Dockside demos, including a salmon cooking demo by yours truly
• A Welcome Basket
• A Pedicure
• A 30 Minute Massage
• Hang Out and Fish with Me!

How to Enter:

• Every copy of “Girl Hunter” that is purchased in the month of February is an automatic entry to win. It makes a perfect Valentines gift y’all!
• For ten entries, send a screen shot or picture of your February book purchase receipt to: alaska@georgiapellegrini.com and all copies that are purchased will be counted 10 times each
• You can earn single entries by: 1. Sharing this post on your Facebook page and leaving a comment below telling us that you have. 2. Tweeting the following and leaving a comment below telling us that you have: “I just entered to win a trip to Alaska with @GPellegrini!  http://ow.ly/8PPFH #GirlHunter”

It’s gonna be fun!

**Bonus** 10 Runners Up will Receive An Additional Personalized Signed Copy of my book “Girl Hunter” in the mail to give to a friend or keep for themselves.

Hope to see you there!

Note 1: If you don’t win the contest but would like to join us on the trip, feel free! More details here.

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Official rules:

• Winners will be announced here on March 1st.
• This trip is open to men and women ages 18 years and older that will be traveling from within the continental United States.
• The Contest is Sponsored by Clover Pass Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska.
• There is 1 grand prize trip and 10 additional book prizes.
• All prizes offered will be awarded.
• Winners will be chosen by Random.org and counted in the order in which their entries are submitted.
• No purchase necessary to enter.

Have a favorite chicken or fish or pheasant dish? Add these and it will turn into something entirely new.

You will need: Key limes (or Meyer lemons or any other citrus you’d like to try), black peppercorns, cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise, olive oil, Kosher salt.

Slice the limes in half. You can even cut them in quarters or any shape you please.

Place them all in a bowl and squeeze several of them to add juice to the bowl. I cured about 5 key limes and turned the rest into juice.

Add Kosher salt.

Toss them all in a bowl with the lime juice and Kosher salt until evenly coated.

Next, make an incision in each half with the tip of a paring knife and insert a clove into each half.

Put the cinnamon stick in a glass jar…

Along with the star anise…

And the peppercorns.

Add all the contents of the bowl into the glass jar. Seal the jar with a lid and allow the key limes to ripen at room temperature for 7 days. Shake daily to distribute the salt and flavorings.

After 7 days, they will look like this.

Get out a nice finishing olive oil.

Pour it into the jar until filled below the rim.

It will be golden and beautiful.

And you will age it 3-4 weeks before using it in all of your dishes.

You can store this jar in the refrigerator for up to 6 months.

And whenever you’re craving a little intrigue in your stews and braises, this will be your answer.

Just one in rice, or couscous, or chicken tagine will make your heart go pitter patter.

And p.s., you might like to try these Preserved Meyer Lemons also!

“With a poet’s eye toward a conscious dinner, Pellegrini takes her readers on a search, not just for wild game but for what she calls a “primal part” of one’s being.  I couldn’t stop reading as Pellegrini dug into this foray with gusto and blood, which gives her book an occasional Lord of the Flies feel that’s usually abutted by thoughts so beautiful that you want to weep.” – GO Magazine

GO Magazine reviews Georgia’s Girl Hunter: No, it’s not about cruising the bar scene – it’s about dinner

Have you ever heard of homemade millet bags?

I didn’t realize that these magical bags were homemade until a wonderful relative of mine named Doris picked me up from the airport in Dallas a few weeks ago on one of the legs of my book tour. I was sosososo tired and she brought me to her house and popped the millet bag into the microwave while I snacked on mango.

Three minutes later, I had a warm wonderful magical pillow around my neck and on my feet.

“I have to get one of these!” I proclaimed.

“I’ll make you one!” she proclaimed back.

And the next morning I heard the hum of her sewing machine and these beautiful gems were born. In a separate post I’ll go through how to make them at home, but in the meantime, this is how they work.

They are cloth and they are filled with raw millet, which is a grain. You put them in the microwave for about 3 minutes for two of them, a bit less for only 1.

You wait with anticipation.

Then you put them around your neck and feel like the most relaxed girl or boy in the world.

You can put one on your feet too, this is a wonderful treat. Or, you can put it in bottom of your bed under the covers and it will be toasty in there when you get in.

 
Here are some places I found online where you can buy a microwavable neck pillow if you don’t want to make them… but soon I’ll show ya how to make ‘em:

• Microwavable Neck Pillow
• Microwavable Lavender Neck Pillow
• Microwavable Flax Seed Neck Pillow

Okay, I’m off to heat up my millet bags.

Nothing! But this is my little note to all of you who have been emailing me since my Fox News article came out about eating squirrels. I’ve gotten inquiries about where one might find squirrel recipes on my site. The short answer is nowhere… you see, they are all in my book Girl Hunter, and my publisher won’t allow me to publish what’s in my book everywhere else, because that defeats the purpose of toiling away for years on a book. But the recipes are mighty tasty, so if you don’t want to spend the $16 to order it, I highly recommend asking your local library to order you a copy. I’m sure they would love to. Also, there are some recipes for dove stews and rabbit dishes here that could also be interchanged for squirrel. Be creative! Go wild!

This past Saturday was squirrel appreciation day. But I appreciate squirrels every day and so should you.

Now, on to a dandelion wine update.

As you may recall, I made a batch of dandelion wine over the summer. It was a thrill and I’ve been waiting 6 months to taste it.

What better time than New Year’s Eve I thought?

So I got out a few glasses for family and friends and we had a taste test.

Actually, first I spilled.

Then I poured properly.

First sip: Wow! Sweet but flavorful. A nice bubble to it from the fermentation.

Second sip: Still tasty, but a bit too sweet.

Third sip: It’s becoming too cloying, it needs something to thin out the sweetness. And it’s a little warm. I would refrigerate this before serving for sure.

I added a cube of ice.

Fourth sip: Still too sweet. But it would make a wonderful after dinner aperitif as a result.

I added some sparkling water to turn it into a spritzer.

Amaaaazing. A dandelion spritzer. Sign me up.

Next spring when the dandelions are blooming again, I’m going to try this with a little less sugar and a little more yeast so that the yeast will eat up the sugar and give this a bit more tang. I like tang in my life.

But this was a wonderful adventure in dandelion wine. And my godfather has informed me that the best roasted chicken he’s ever had was with dandelion wine poured over it. I bet it caramelizes the skin in an intoxicating sort of way.

The End.

p.s. For the full dandelion wine recipe go HERE.

It’s called Key of A and it is an Etsy Shop.

This is the bracelet Amy gave me. Can you tell what it is made out of? The charm dangling by the clasp should give you a hint.

If you’re not a bracelet person, there are necklaces with funky chains.

Or there is a different style of bracelet. A more ornate cuff style.

There are stud earings which are simple and beautiful and rustic all at once.

Or if you’re not a jewelry person, then there are money clips of various sorts. I loved this one. It makes me want to start carrying a money clip at all times and flash it around.

If you’re not into shot shell hardware, do not fear. Key of A has other sorts of hardware. Typewriter keys for example! I bought one of these as a gift recently for a literary type friend.

These are fun and cheeky and flirty. I think they would make a good Valentines gift.

Or these which are a bit more simple and elegant.

Check out the Key of A Etsy Shop when you have time, I think there are some nice simple man-gifts there as well.

Over ‘n out.

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1. Donald Trump
2. Mrs. Gotti
3. A real housewife from New Jersey
4. Pheasants, Hungarian Partridge, Chukar Partridge
5. A new puppy
6. Donald Trump’s hair
7. 2.5 million fake eyelashes

Meet this new munchkin. We got him for my mom for Christmas. We used to have one just like him named Humphrey and he followed my mom around wherever she went. If she went into a room and closed the door he sat in front of the door until she came out and didn’t move an inch. When Humphrey passed my mom had a very hard time with it. We debated for a while whether to introduce a new brown and white Springer Spaniel into her life… and then my brother decided to go visit the pups.

Once you go visit the pups, it’s all over. There’s no way you’re not taking one home.

So this is Charlie. On Christmas morning they covered him with bows and he trotted into the living room and jumped onto my mom’s lap. They named him after my dad’s very first dog when he was a boy.

Other names they considered:

• Rosco
• Tanner
• Hank
• Homer
• Chester
• Sherlock or Matlock (I can’t remember the rest really).

But as soon as they tried Charlie on for size things fell into place. He started responding to Charlie, so he really chose his own name.

What I like about Charlie is that he is not self-conscious at all. Whereas Humphrey was much more sensitive and emotionally fragile, Charlie takes life head on and never hesitates. He also eats poop.

He also sleeps in strange positions at strange moments. This is Charlie. I think it’s going to be fun.

He’s already a good retriever as well. He brings all kinds of animals into the house that the cat has slaughtered for him. So he has that going for him.

I almost took him on a quick little hunt I went on in upstate New York but decided he wasn’t quite trained enough yet. I returned with pheasant, Hungarian partridge and Chukar partridge, which I promptly put into my dad’s vegan hands. And my vegan dad ate it all and loved it.

Then I went and stayed in New York City for a few days to do some book things. My first stop was the Today Show… the green room of the Today Show to be exact. Except it’s beige not green. I was thinking though that if I owned a green room I would paint it bright green to be cheeky. Why doesn’t anyone ever paint the green room bright green to be cheeky?

The most colorful part of the morning was the makeup room where in a single row sat:

1. Victoria Gotti (John Gotti’s former wife)
2. Teresa Giudice from the Real Housewives of New Jersey
3. Donald Trump
4. A boy who climbed every major mountain on all continents
5. Me

Just a typical Wednesday morning.

We did a few teasers upstairs on the set. I tossed some bison around and waved.

I just imagined my blog friends were on the other side of the camera… the alternative was too intimidating.

Then I waited a bit more, chatted with Donald Trump who was wandering around chatting with everyone and inquiring about the food.

And then it was go time and in 4 minutes, I had to tap dance and tap my head and rub my stomach and make two recipes and chat with Matt Lauer.

I have no idea what transpired in that 4 minutes, except I remember that all of the sudden Al Roker and Ann Curry were in the room eating my grandmother’s meatloaf. And then we went to commercial break and I just kept chatting with Al Roker. He was so nice.

My friend was watching from home and sent me this photo. Since I’ll never get to watch myself live on TV, it’s fun to see. I can’t handle seeing more than a picture anyway.

But if you want to watch, here is the clip: Fun and Game in the Kitchen with Girl Hunter

After this, I went over to Leonard Lopate’s Radio show which airs on NPR. He was very nice. This is what their green room looked like… see through.

Here is that if you’d like to listen:

Then I went to Fox studios on Friday morning before the sun rose.

This is what it looks like before the sun comes up.

Their green room was… red. And there was a nice man there with a bunch of plastic crates and I asked him what was inside.

This was inside one of the crates. There were also other reptiles… snakes of various sorts. But I decided not to have him open all of the boxes. One large reptile was enough at 5am. It was cute though.

Then I went into the makeup room and they put on 2.5 million fake eyelashes. I felt very fabulous and Vegas and blinked a lot. But it’s fun how you can’t really tell on TV. I suppose that’s why they call it stage makeup.

So me and Gretchen Carlson chatted for a bit on Fox & Friends. She was so, so nice.

Here is our chat: From Wall Street to Wilderness

Then I talked with Harris Faulkner on FoxNews.com: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat. She was so, so nice.

Then I talked to Eric Bolling on Follow the Money: Investment Banker Turned Chef and Hunter

We talked about squirrels, and who knew squirrels could be so political? But he was so, so nice.

All of the Fox studios are in one building so it’s easy to hop around.

I stayed across from the New York public library which is one of the most beautiful structures in New York City.

It was a stellar location for many reasons.

And so if you’re looking for a cool New York hotel that is hip, and modern and in a stellar location, I highly recommend the Andaz. I hadn’t heard about it until a friend mentioned it… I think it’s sort of a secret and fairly new. But the cafe is wonderful and the downstairs bar area is wonderful and they have a library and an upstairs seating area with these amazing open kitchens. And they just made my life a lot easier with all of the back and forth I had to do. Plus they give you unlimited snacks and beverages in the mini bar! I drank a lot of those mini Martinelli’s apple juices. Mmmm. The mini jar is what gets me every time.

Then I got on a plane to Indiana and then to Dallas for two book signings. At some point I saw my book on a bookstore shelf and realized that this may possibly be the most time I’ve ever spent with football players.

I never, ever imagined that this is where life would take me. It was a very colorful week. And as soon as I figure out how to remove 2.5 million fake eyelashes, life will be completely back to normal.