Ducks and Geese

Duck Burgers

Duck or goose burgers are a great use for skinless meat. Here's how I make them, with caramelized onions, cheese and homemade mayo.

Asian

Crab Fried Rice Thai Style

A quick and easy dish for weeknights, Thai crab fried rice works with any crabmeat, crawfish tails, bay scallops, very small shrimp or chopped lobster. Pineapple adds a tart and sweet note.

How-To (DIY stuff)

Berbere Spice Mix

Berbere spice mix is essential to Ethiopian cooking, along with the clarified spiced butter known as niter kebbeh. Berbere (ber-BERRY)…

Mexican

Mexican Pipian Verde

A recipe for Mexican pipian verde, the green pumpkinseed sauce that traces its origins back more than 500 years. Great with any white meat or fish.

Ducks and Geese

Duck Fesenjan

A recipe for Persian fesenjan, made with duck or goose. Fesenjan is a thick stew that hinges on walnuts and pomegranate molasses. Chicken or pheasant work well, too.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Ike Jime

I talk with Andrew Tsui of the Ike Jime Federation about this revolutionary way to kill fish cleanly, which is more humane and results in far superior fish for the table.

Ducks and Geese

Duck Stew

A classic French duck stew done as a garbure, which is a country stew thick enough to stand a spoon in. Great with goose or duck legs, or venison shoulder or neck.

Recipe

White Truffle Risotto

White truffle risotto is among the ritzier dishes you can make, but it’s surprisingly easy — once you have your…

Spanish

Saffron Aioli

Aioli is one of those magic sauces, equally at home with both fried foods and poached meats. It is a…

Mexican

Chicken with Chile Walnut Sauce

A recipe for chicken with walnut sauce from Mexico. Gallina en nogada is an old Mexican recipe that mixes walnuts and chiles. I used pheasant, and any white meat will work.

Featured

Hunt Gather Talk: Fish Wizard

This interview with Australian chef Josh Niland, the wunderkind of fish cookery, will change the way you think about fish cookery.

How-To (DIY stuff)

Wild Boar Sausage

I have an entire section of this website dedicated to wild game sausages, from wild hogs and other animals, but…