American Recipes Archives

Ducks and Geese

Duck Bacon

Here's how to make duck bacon at home. Duck bacon is cured duck breast that is then smoked and sliced. You can eat it cooked or uncooked.

Fish

A simple recipe for pan seared halibut cheeks with a tomato sauce spiked with saffron. Any large fish cheeks work here.

Venison

Green chile stew, desert Southwest style. This is a New Mexico green chile stew, not Mexican chile verde.

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This was the first sausage I ever learned to make, in Wisconsin. It's a traditional "white brat" made with veal, pork, or turkey.

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A simple recipe for either party appetizers, a light lunch, or a snack. Beware: Crab deviled eggs are addictive.

Italian

A classic lobster fra diavolo recipe made easier to eat by shelling the lobster. This is an Italian-American classic.

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This is she crab soup without the roe, so it is cream of crab soup, with sherry, bay, a little seafood broth and lots of crab.

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Knoephle soup, a North Dakota classic, with little dumplings, cream, root vegetables and smoked meat, in this case, smoked sharp-tailed grouse.

American Recipes

A classic mac and cheese recipe with added roasted green chiles and pheasant.

Mushrooms

This is a simple hen of the woods recipe where you slice the mushroom in big 'steaks,' then sear it under a weight.

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A simple recipe for pan-roasted ptarmigan -- or any other small game bird. This method works in a frying pan, either in camp or a kitchen.

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This is an okra salad recipe where you flash fry thinly sliced okra first, which removes all slime! Finish it up with tomatoes, feta and peppers.