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Roasted Whole Dove Recipe with Butter and Paprika

Roasted Whole Dove Recipe with Paprika and Butter

Appetizers, Cooking, Dove & Pigeon, Fall, Food, Hunting, Main Courses, Marinades & RubsSeptember 12, 20193KViews 1Like 0Comments

Thad is back with another delicious wild game recipe! ...It is the time of year where you can combine a fresh harvest from the field with fresh harvest from the garden for a wonderful dinner. Mourning doves, cucumbers, tomatoes, onion and basil are all at their peak in my part of the country -- Minnesota.…

Braised Rabbit with Olives and Preserved Lemon

Braised Rabbit with Olives & Preserved Lemon

Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Main Courses, Marinades & Rubs, Rabbit, Hare & Squirrel, Summer, Wild Game, WinterOctober 14, 2010691Views 0Likes 16Comments

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…

Turkey Brine

Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Marinades & Rubs, Pioneer Skills, Spring, Turkey, Wild GameApril 14, 2010895Views 0Likes 23Comments

No, it's not Thanksgiving silly. It's April. Also known as turkey hunting season in certain paradigms.My very first hunt was for turkey. It was deep in the Arkansas delta, on a three-thousand acre hunting preserve that runs five miles up the length of the great Mississippi. It was Spring, early on a Saturday morning after…

Solo Brining and Dining

Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food + Drink, Hog & Javelina, Main Courses, Marinades & Rubs, Spring, Summer, Wild Game, WinterNovember 19, 2009337Views 0Likes 16Comments

I had a pork chop yesterday. I was dining alone, and I ceremoniously made myself a proper meal. I took a visit to the butcher who had all sorts of glossy selections piled high in the coolers, and I settled on a pork chop, bone-in. It was a good choice because it was well aged, and came from…

How to Age Venison, then Braise It

Antlered Game, Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Main Courses, Marinades & Rubs, Pioneer Skills, Wild Game, WinterNovember 17, 2009466Views 0Likes 16Comments

In a few weeks I'll be deer hunting. Someone recently told me that squirrel is the best meat in the woods. And while I plan on testing that theory and presenting you with a squirrel recipe one of these days, until then I'm clinging on to the notion that venison is the best meat in the woods.The key…

Quail Marinade + Tenderloin Marinade: Hunting for the Salad Course

Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Hunting, Marinades & Rubs, Upland Game Birds, Wild Game, WinterNovember 11, 2009338Views 0Likes 6Comments

Welcome to part two of my three part dinner series...After we brought the hogs back to the ranch, Tim put them in a walk-in cooler. After debating, we decided to have the tenderloins for dinner rather than wait to let them age. So we brought them into the kitchen and got them ready for a…

Roasted Whole Dove Recipe with Paprika and Butter