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French
French Garlic Chicken
Classic French 40 clove garlic chicken, made with pheasant. This recipe features thighs, and works with chicken, pheasant, rabbit or partridge.
American Recipes
Corned Beef Casserole
Corned beef or venison casserole is a great use for leftovers. Add noodles, cabbage, peas, cheese and breadcrumbs and it’s a winner.
Mexican
Chacales
Chacales are roasted, dried and cracked corn typically cooked in soups. Also called chichales or chuales, it makes a great meatless soup for Lent.
Popular Recipes
Venison
Venison 101: How to Cook Venison
A comprehensive look at how to cook venison that covers all types of venison and all cuts. Here’s a basic breakdown on what to do with your deer meat.
Wild Game
How to Cook Duck Breasts
This is a fundamental skill everyone who cooks duck or goose should know, especially if you are a hunter. Cooking a duck breast is like cooking a steak. A steak wearing a hat made of bacon!
Recipe
Making Stew with What You Have
In these crazy days. it’s important to know how to make a great meal with whatever you have in your house right now. Here’s how to make a great stew.
Fish
Pickled Pike
If you’re not from the Northwoods, you may have never heard of pickled pike. Well, this is to the boreal forest what ceviche is to the tropics: A great way to snack on fish with saltines…
Hi, I’m Hank Shaw
I’m a James Beard Award-winning author and chef. I started this site back in 2007 to help you get the most out of all things wild: fish, game, edible wild plants and mushrooms. I also write cookbooks, have a website dedicated to the intersection of food and nature, and do a podcast, too. If it’s wild, you’ll find it here. Hope you enjoy the site!
Duck and Goose Recipes
Learn to eat everything but the quack, for all forms of waterfowl
British
British Game Pie
How to make hand-raised pies with game. This one is a huntsman’s pie, an English classic hand pie made with a hot water crust.
Ducks and Geese
Seared Canada Goose Breast
This is the best Canada goose breast recipe if you want to eat it like a steak or a London broil. Reverse seared goose breast sliced thin and served simply.
Charcuterie
Duck Terrine
Making a duck terrine is not as hard as you might think, although you do need some equipment. Why bother…
Mushroom Recipes
Mushrooms are endlessly fascinating in the kitchen, whether they are wild or cultivated. Springtime is when the first edible mushrooms start showing, and morels are the star of the show. Here are some fun and tasty mushroom recipes for your harvest.
Mexican
Huitlacoche Quesadilla
A recipe for huitlacoche quesadillas. Huitlacoche, “corn smut,” is a mushroom that grows on corn, and is amazing cooked with chile and onion on a tortilla.
Mushrooms
chanterelle sauce
A recipe for a summery chanterelle sauce that works well with fish, poultry, pasta or bread. Chanterelles, cream, corn and roasted garlic.
Mushrooms
Mushroom Fried Rice
A simple, quick and easy recipe for mushroom fried rice. This recipe works with any fresh mushroom, from buttons to morels, and whatever vegetable is in season when you make it.
Recipe
Mushroom Tart
A mushroom tart recipe with an eggy, cheesy filling and a crispy pie dough crust. You can use any sort of mushrooms, and either a pie or tart pan.
Sweet Things
A selection of recipes for snacks and desserts featuring wild edible plants. You’ll find baked goods, ice creams, cookies and cakes, all using wild nuts and berries.
Mexican
Cucumber Agua Fresca
How to make a cucumber agua fresca with lime and a touch of salt. This is a great hot-weather drink that also uses up cucumbers if you have too many.
Sweet Things
Olive Oil Rosemary Cake
A recipe for an olive oil rosemary cake with pine nuts. This is an Italian cake that isn’t too sweet, and is great with preserved fruit and a little liqueur.
Sweet Things
Pine Nut Cookies
How to make pine nut cookies, pignoli, with American pine nuts — although any kind of pine nut works. These cookies have a touch of rosemary in them and are not too sweet.