Mexican

Mole Amarillo, Mexico’s Golden Sauce

Oaxacan yellow mole with partridges, served in a pumpkin. What can be more autumnal than that? Mole, a rich sauce used over meats, fish and vegetables, comes in many colors.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Pheasants

Everything you need to know about the ring-necked pheasant: how to hunt them, their conservation status and biology, dogs, gear and how to prepare them in the kitchen.

Mexican

Chicharron en Salsa Verde

Mexican chicharron en salsa verde is a simple stew usually served as a taco filling. Pork or duck cracklins stewed in a tomatillo-green chile sauce.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Woodcock

I join A.J. DeRosa of Project Upland and Matt Soberg of Covey Rise magazine to talk about hunting and eating woodcock.

Venison

Venison Birria

How to make Jalisco-style birria. Birria is a hybrid braise and stew where the broth is as important as the meat, which is venison in this case.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Scaled Quail

Everything you want to know about scaled quail, also known as blue quail, with biologist and outfitter Ryan O'Shaughnessy.

Appetizers and Snacks

Thai Meatballs

Spicy, meaty Thai-style meatballs, made with ground pork, beef or even chicken. Serve Thai meatballs as an appetizer before a Thai curry.

Recipe

Pan Roasted Ptarmigan or Grouse

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.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Band-Tailed Pigeons

Today we cover band-tailed pigeons, America's last huntable native pigeon. Us F&WS biologist Mark Seamans and I cover conservation, history, lore, hunting and eating band-tails.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Spruce Grouse

This episode is all about spruce grouse, the grouse of the boreal forest. Biologist Bailey Petersen and grouse hunter Kevin Kossowan join me.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Sage Grouse

This episode of the podcast, sponsored by Filson and Hunt to Eat, features sage grouse, an important species in the American West.