I spent all day yesterday recipe testing. My freezer had gotten unruly and I had declared that nothing else was allowed in it so that all of the game meat I had collected since September could have a proper home until I could test it all for the "Girl Hunter" book.
That has been the rule,…
Have you ever made sausage? Have you ever thought about making sausage?
It is a fun affair.
I would rather talk about sausage right now than the aftermath of the horrible loss I experienced last week. That has consisted of drama and me eating a box of truffles in preparation to open three Fedex boxes that I…
After I spent the day solving the "plague of pigs" crisis a few weeks ago, I began a hog cooking extravaganza. There were so many parts to break down and ponder.
This is my friend Mike breaking down and pondering:
Isn't he doing a nice job? He's a scholar of the woods and the kitchen.
The thing about…
I have fond, peculiar memories of a glass jar sitting on the fireplace mantle, holding a liquid that constantly reinvented itself. It changed by the day, by the hour sometimes, from something strange to something more recognizable. This liquid, as it turns out, is intensely good for you, a drinkable yogurt full of good bacteria,…
One of the questions I get most often from interviewers is "what is your favorite wild animal dish?"
I always describe this one.
From the first moment I tasted it, it earned itself a special place in the crevices of my mind.
This is a whole wild hog, marinated for days and then smoked for many hours.
There is…
There something about campfire eating.
Maybe it's the coziness or the color. Maybe it's the flavor the wood and smoke impart on the food.
I just took a trip to Arkansas and we did quite a lot of campfire eating.
The very first thing I ate when I arrived were those things in the shovel. Can you see…
This is one of the many food items I made out of the gizzards and hearts and liver and legs from my New Orleans duck hunt. It is called a terrine, a Wild Duck Terrine.
A terrine is a piece of architecture which takes several days of work. There are many components that go into it…
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I met a woman named Elana not too long ago. We met in a hallway of a hotel at a conference and as soon as we met I felt like I had known her for a…
The first official hunt I ever went on was in Arkansas with the Commissioner of Fish and Game. He was the family of a friend of mine, and I was told that hunting with him was something people bid on at auctions. Down in Arkansas, he was a bigger deal than the President of the…