Recipe
Pan roasted partridges cooked simply and served with a my all-time favorite winter salad: radicchio, Belgian endive and bitter greens like dandelions. This is a bright, happy dinner to make on a cold winter night.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Pheasant soup. Pheasant noodle soup, to be exact. Why it's taken me so long to post up this classic I have no idea. But it's comfort food at it's best: Easy to make, satisfying, and you'll get leftovers.
Venison
This is my master recipe for venison chili, and it is the best chili you have probably ever had. Seriously. It's won awards. Beans or no beans, and, honestly, any meat, this is a recipe you need to know by heart. It's that good.
Wild Game
This is about as classic French as you get. Salmis (sal-mee) of snipe: Salmis is where you roast a bird, make a quick sauce from the bones, and serve it with mushrooms and maybe some toast. This is a fantastic snipe recipe.
Asian
If you like the classic Chinese dish kung pao chicken, you'll love kung pao venison. This is a pretty authentic Chinese version of the dish, which isn't as sweet as the typical steam-table Chinese stuff you get at Sad Panda.
Wild Game
Roast partridge, grouse or quail is a wonderful idea, but in practice the bird often comes out dry. Pan roasting is a far better way to roast game birds. This is by far the best way to cook upland birds, or small, skinny ducks like teal.
Wild Game
Rarely are dishes this simple this good. Something about lots of slow-braised rabbit and whole garlic cloves, spiked with sweet peas and a splash of vinegar makes this recipe far greater than the sum of its parts.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
An ode to the ruffed grouse of the Northwoods, whether they're in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan or Canada. This recipe relies on flavors familiar to this part of the world: wild rice, mushrooms, cranberries.
Foraging
This is one of my favorite things to make with acorns, and for those of you who can't do wheat, it's gluten free. My acorn soup really shines with the garnishes of sour cream, slices of grouse (or chicken), and some fancy oil.
Fish
Deviled eggs are one of those foods I have a hard time controlling myself with. I've been known to eat a dozen at a sitting, and even though I know I'll feel ill afterwards, I can't stop eating them. These deviled eggs, made with smoked salmon, are especially good.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Roast woodcock with a sweet-tart sauce of Michigan apples and Michigan-made vinegar, served on toast. It's pure Michigan, and I wish I could get back there to hunt timberdoodles again soon...
Fish
Some days you remember forever. This tuna fishing trip was one of them. I spent a couple days, 40 miles off North Carolina, in search of tuna. We found them. Oh yes, people, we found them... and with the trimmings of those great fish, I made these Sicilian meatballs.
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