Wanted to pick up some tips on how to butcher a pig? Or how to get more out of your wild game? Come to the Sportsmen’s Expo in Sacramento this weekend, where I’ll be doing demos.
A duck hunting trip on the San Francisco Bay was radically different from the sort of duck hunting we normally do. But it was a thrilling experience matched by the challenge of cooking sea ducks.
Canada geese get a bad rap. Sky carp. Stinky, arrogant hissing birds. Yeah, Canadas can be nasty. But cooking a real, wild, Canada goose offers pleasures other waterfowl simply lack.
For me, charcuterie is the endgame of every successful hunt, but each animal needs a different treatmeant: sausages, cured whole cuts, salami, etc. This is what I did with my deer from Catalina.
While I won the Best Blog award from the International Assn. of Culinary Professionals last week, the conference – especially a French butchery seminar – showed me how much I need to learn.
You’re never too old to start a new endeavor. Most recently for me, it’s been making cheese and fancy terrines. Looking at my parents, however, I know this will only be the first of many diverting adventures to come…
The first time I ever saw a Hmong person was at the farmers market around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, many years ago. I was a young line cook at the time, and I gawked at the garishly bright clothes they put their children in. They did not look like any Vietnamese I’d ever met, [...]
Enough of figs. Back to Spork the Blacktail Deer. Even after the misadventure with my first-ever blacktail buck, I did manage to save a fair amount of meat. Which is good, because that’s why I was hunting him in the first place. You can’t eat antlers. I came home with one back leg, one front [...]
I present to you: mocetta. It is my first-ever dry-cured ham, and because I am generally abnormal, it does not come from a pig. Mocetta (MOE-chet-uh) is a Northern Italian air-dried goat ham. I wish I could tell you I have an old recipe handed down by the nonnas from Alto Adige, but that’s be [...]
