I have a new friend named Roy who has been kind enough to share a lot of delicious wild game meat with me lately. It has given me a chance to experiment with all kinds of new recipes, and this is one that I am excited to share with you. Wild boar is one of…
I love a good chili recipe. Even with the weather warming up, there is something special about a hearty bowl of chili at a summer cookout. Plus, when you have a pot of chili on the stove, your whole house will smell amazing.
As you can see, a delicious chili recipe takes just a…
This is a recipe that I made last week while cleaning out some of the extra game meat in my freezer and I just loved it. I had several whole pheasants left over from my Adventure Getaway in Virginia this past December and I decided given this never-ending winter, it was high time to make…
I brought a nice venison haunch back from my Girl Hunter Weekend in Arkansas. Ain't it a beauty?It was aged for about 20 days. And since I was having a gathering of a large group of people I decided to put it to good use. I've made many stews before so I decided to think…
A cassoulet is an Occitan dish--that part of Southern France where they speak a beautiful and fading romance language, Occitan.It is a stew of beans and meat; sometimes pork, sometimes goose, or mutton or whatever else they please. It is hearty and traditionally cooked in a cassole, a deep earthenware pot with slanted sides.But since…
Standing in the fields at Joshua Creek was a special kind of experience. There is a mystical quality in the rooster pheasant as he shoots into the air like a feathered arrow, in all his green and red and purple, and speckled brown-black. The long spike of his tail feathers taper for aerodynamic flight and…
Raise your hand if you have rabbit or chicken in your freezer.Great! Let's talk.I am about to embark on a hunting spree. Elk in Wyoming, Javelina in El Paso, Pheasant in South Dakota, Partridge in England, Snowshoe Rabbit in Alaska, Squirrel in… where should I hunt squirrel? I hear they really know how to do…
Also known as... "how to cook a clam."Word on the street is that my clam digging pictures are freaking you out. I'm sorry to give you the heebie jeebies. But they taste good, I promise. Besides, don't you want to know what to do if someone drops you on an island somewhere and tells you to…
Guess what this is...I'll give you one clue...It's not a leotard.Okay, I'll give you another clue...Now guess?Okay, okay, geez, one more clue!Red quinoa!!!If you've never heard of it before, you're not alone. It's been slowly rising to stardom recently but hasn't reached full celebrity status yet. It's a grain-like crop grown for its edible seeds.…