Fish

Clam Chowder, Mom, and Memories

Today is Mother's Day, and for me that means mom's clam chowder. Not only is it a wonderful chowder, but it's also a bowl full of memories.

Appetizers and Snacks

Smoked Oysters

Delicately smoked oysters are a fantastic appetizer or snack, and are great on pasta.

Mexican

Green Enchiladas

Traditional New Mexico green chile enchiladas filled with dove meat. Easy, really good - and you can sub in any meat if you want.

Appetizers and Snacks

Hank’s Dove Poppers

The Venerable Popper. This little appetizer is a Labor Day tradition -- it's what you do with the first doves of the year, a way to celebrate the return of hunting season.

Foraging

How to Make Mesquite Bean Syrup

If you live where mesquite trees do -- and that's much of the Southwest from California to Texas -- you can make a fantastic mesquite bean syrup very easily with a slow cooker. Here's how to do it.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk 18: Indigenous Cooking

In this episode of Hunt Gather Talk, I team up with Minnesota's Sean Sherman, the Sioux Chef, to talk about native American cooking and cuisine, and what everyone can learn by paying attention to how the various Indian groups worked the land for thousands of years.

Fish

Blackened Catfish

Blackened fish is so 1980s, I know, but I still love it. Here I use catfish, a Cajun staple, but you can blacken any fish sturdy enough for this ferocious cooking process. Blackened redfish is the classic example. Alongside the fish is Cajun succotash, called maque choux.

Foraging

Homemade Root Beer Syrup

Homemade root beer is easy to make when you use this syrup as a base. No fermentation needed, you just add it to sparkling water and you're done. And if you live east of the Great Plains, sassafras lives everywhere.

Fish

Shad Roe with Bacon and Grits

Shad roe is a delicacy of springtime. In the East, the shad run in early spring. Here in the West, however, the fish don't run up the rivers until late spring. Here's my favorite way to cook shad roe - with bacon, some onions and a bowl of grits.

Fish

Cooking and Eating Shad

Cooking and eating the American shad used to be part of any angler's skill set. No longer. All those bones have defeated many a would-be shad eater. But here's how to cook shad and actually enjoy it. Everything you need to know about dealing with a fish whose Latin name is "tastiest."

Foraging

How to Eat Cholla Buds

Cholla buds are edible, believe it or not. Here's how to harvest, prepare, store and eat the buds from the cholla cactus, which live in the American Southwest.