Wild Game
Grilled Doves with Blueberry BBQ Sauce
Grilled doves basted with homemade huckleberry (or blueberry) barbecue sauce. You want this. Yes you do.
Wild Game
Grilled doves basted with homemade huckleberry (or blueberry) barbecue sauce. You want this. Yes you do.
Recipe
Another good recipe for the dog days of August: Grouse salad with Sungold tomatoes and barley. It's meant to be eaten warm or at room temperature, on the porch at sunset, beer in hand.
Fish
Remember the blackened redfish craze back in the 1980s? I do, and I am here to revive that old dish, only this time with catfish caught in Northern California.
Recipe
Quail are one of the best game birds for the grill, and respond well to either high heat grilling or slow-and-low barbecue. Here I barbecue them slowly, basted with a South Carolina-style mustard sauce.
Venison
Grilled venison heart. Yep, you heard me right. And don't look away. It's as awesome as it looks. High heat, great meat and a good marinade are the keys.
Recipe
I had my first Cajun sauce piquante a year ago, in a grubby cafe near Houma. It was made with alligator, and it was awesome. This version is made with venison, and it's just as awesome.
Appetizers and Snacks
Clam cakes? Yep, they're a Rhode Island tradition. I eat them every time I go to Block Island. Think clam beignet, or a clam donut hole. They are sinfully good.
Wild Game
Sometimes a plan just comes together. After the world's shortest turkey hunt, I had so much time left over I dressed and barbecued the bird all in one day!
Mushrooms
It's morel season at last, and in celebration, I've revamped one of my favorite recipes for venison and morels. No fresh morels in your area yet? Use dried. They work fine in this recipe.
Recipe
Andouille sausage is one of may favorites. The heavily spiced, smoked links go well with anything from a po'boy sandwich to gumbo - and you can make them with any meat.
Ducks and Geese
Who doesn't love jerky? Good jerky - dry but not brittle, spicy but not overpowering - is God's gift to road food. Once made, this wild duck jerky will keep for months.
Charcuterie
I didn't set out to make a wild duck hot dog. All I wanted to do was make an all-duck sausage, and that means you need to emulsify it, like a hot dog. Who knew my spice mix was the secret of hot dogs?