Welcome to my three part dinner series.In part one, we go on a hog hunt, very early...The owner of Hidden Valley Ranch, Tim Haley, and his foreman Craig, and I hopped into the jeep and drove through some very chilly winds...But the ranch was so beautiful as the sun came up that it was a lovely…
Today I am off to a place called Hidden Valley Ranch. I'm pretty sure it's not the salad dressing place because I am going there to hunt wild pig, and that would be strange...This is my schedule for Saturday:Out of bed before sunrise, hunting at daybreak with the ranch owner and ranch foreman.
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The coolest thing I've seen in recent months...... is a father teaching his daughter how to properly clean a bird for dinner. Wanting her to understand what it is to be a meat eater and how to be a fair and honest meat eater at that. Hunting is not about male bonding in the woods anymore... it's…
Over the weekend, my new friend Michael from New Orleans taught me how to make Puttok. If anyone can tell me how to spell it properly I'll give you a gold star sticker. It's a lovely stew of tomato, rosemary, vinegar (or in our case red wine) and braised meat.
And before you keep reading, here are my other…
When the sun comes up, the socializing begins. This consists mostly of hanging out in the corn on the back of a four wheeler sipping a soda, and staring blurry eyed in front of you...Stragglers come in from the fields little by little, trying to hold out for just one more... someone insists they bought bad…
Soon there's some action. And the earplugs come in handy as shots fire across the field...The doves start to descend en route to breakfast...And Buddy is thrilled to finally get some action...Where's the dove?... Sniff, sniff, circle, circle...I just saw it here... where did it go?...I've been waiting all morning for this moment!AHA!Yihaw!Yippi! The sweet payoff of a dove…
Dove hunting starts a little later than most hunts. 5:30 am to be exact.It's a social affair... a cooler full of beverages, talking, laughing, dogs running around in circles. And some good ear plugs.It takes place in the fields not the woods. The doves come down at sunrise to feed on the corn, sunflower seeds…
It's time for the big dove hunt in Lake Village, Arkansas! I plan to eat a lot of roasted dove this weekend. And tamales. But I will only be hunting for dove, not tamales. Those will come from Rhoda who ties them up in perfect little corn husks. Yes, she and I will be eating roasted…
It’s 4:30am. I’m scarfing down banana, cereal and black coffee in preparation for turkey hunting. Freddie Black is on his way to pick me up. He's the chairman of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which down here is bigger than the President of the United States.Within a few minutes we’re riding along the levy…