Recipe

What to Do with All that Zucchini

This is my favorite way to use a surfeit of zucchini: It's an old Sicilian method where you dry the zukes and then saute them with oil, chile and mint.

Charcuterie

How to Make Guanciale

Guanciale is like bacon or pancetta, only better: It's made from the jowl of a hog, not its belly. And, like most charcuterie, what kind of hog you get your jowls from makes all the difference.

Italian

Calabrian Rabbit with Red Peppers

Rabbit is my chicken, my white meat. I eat it whenever I can, and am always in search of new and interesting rabbit recipes. This one from Calabria is especially good.

Venison

Venison Meat Pies

Inspired by a Sicilian Easter lamb pie, this venison pie is everything a hand-held meat pie should be: dense, flavorful -- and portable. It's like an Italian empanada.

Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi

Squid Ink Risotto

I've compiled more than 325 recipes on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, many I've never actually blogged about. Starting today, I will be featuring a few of my favorites every month.

Foraging

Harvesting Bull Pine Nuts

The more I work with wild nuts, the more I appreciate the ones you buy in the store. Shelling wild pine nuts is not the most exciting thing I've ever done, but I'm glad I did it.

Foraging

Hunting Oregon Truffles

Think you can imagine the thrill of unearthing a truffle? Sorry, but you can't. Not unless you've panned for gold. Or dug diamonds. It's the same feeling, complete with the whiff of rapacious greed...

Italian

Making Mirto, a Sardinian Liqueur

The first time I drank mirto, the dark, herbal-tasting Sardinian liqueur, I fell in love with it. Little did I know then how easy it was to make, and when I found a myrtle bush, it was game on!

Foraging

Curing Olives: Don’t be Afraid to Lye

Most of the olives I cure each year are done in a brine. But this year I tried curing green olives with lye. I was scared at first, but after some experiments, I'm now a believer.

Ducks and Geese

Cooking Goose Meat

Canada geese get a bad rap. Sky carp. Stinky, arrogant hissing birds. Yeah, Canadas can be nasty. But cooking a real, wild, Canada goose offers pleasures other waterfowl simply lack.

Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi

How to Make Pici Pasta

I had a few questions about the pici pasta with tomato-fennel sauce I made last week, so I thought I'd do step by step instructions on how to make pici by hand.

Foraging

Wild Fennel

Fennel, also known as anise, is one of my favorite vegetables. It also happens to grow wild around here. Summer's the time to collect wild fennel pollen as well as the plant's delicious green seeds.