Making stocks and broths are among the core skills of any good cook, and it is a labor or love I embrace wholly. As a hunter, angler and a gardener, I can often make a first-class stock solely with ingredients I’ve grown, caught or shot. This to me is deeply satisfying. Venison stock is one
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Lonzino, Air Cured Pork Loin
Pork is the lone meat I still buy, in no small part because I have access to heritage pork raised the old way, with a varied diet and generally darker and fattier meat than that crap you get at the supermarket. I do routinely shoot wild hogs, too, and they are excellent for this recipe,
Grilled Fish Collars
Fish collars? What, you may be asking, is this strange thing? I bet you didn’t even know fish had necks, let alone donned formal wear. Actually, a “collar” is the piece of meat that is right behind the gills and includes the pectoral fins. Few people other than Asians make much use of this cut of fish (if you
Greek Venison Meatballs
Is there a meal more comforting than spaghetti and meatballs? Not in my world. It is my go-to dish when I tire of the trendy or the technically difficult. I grew up in New Jersey, where spaghetti and meatballs is on someone’s table 365 days a year, and everyone has his own version: Vermicelli
Smoked Canada Goose Sausage
Goose sausage is a must if you happen to hunt geese, especially Canada and snow geese, which are often skinned. Canada geese are especially good, as they are large and meaty and the devil to pluck — I typically only pluck the nicest of my Canadas — you end up with a lot of skinned
Goose Breasts with Orange-Ouzo Sauce
If you are looking for a good goose breast recipe, this is it. There’s something about waterfowl and citrus that just works. Who hasn’t had the classic, duck l’orange? This is a streamlined, quick and relatively easy version of that recipe, with a Greek twist tossed in: ouzo, an anise-flavored liqueur. (I also make another version,
Venison Medallions with Gin and Juniper
The man who got me into hunting, St. Paul Pioneer Press outdoor writer Chris Niskanen, visited this site recently and suggested I post some German and Austrian venison recipes. “I recently shot a 200-pound whitetail (field-dressed) and would like simple recipes on fixing it,” he wrote. Well, I do have some good Teutonic venison recipes
Winter Minestrone, Supermarkets and Brillat-Savarin
It is cold today in Northern California, or at least as cold as November gets here. It’s cloudy, too, which always puts me in a mood for soup. For some reason I cannot now recall I’d developed a yearning for winter minestrone, and not just any minestrone: I wanted Nick Peirano’s winter minestrone recipe. I
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