Ducks and Geese
Grilled duck breast - or in this case grilled specklebelly goose breast - is a bedrock skill for any waterfowler. But it can be tricky, depending on how fat your birds are. Here's how to go about it without ruining your grill.
Wild Game
This is a very traditional recipe for duck sausages, made with caraway, juniper and sage. It works very well with "off" ducks like spoonies, snow geese, diver or sea ducks, or Canada geese.
Wild Game
Last month I hunted tundra swans in Utah, and we ate our bird for Christmas dinner. When I tell people I have hunted and eaten swan I get reactions sunning the gamut from excited interest to full-on horror. Few animals carry the cultural baggage that swans do, and even I am not immune to these mixed feelings.
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Geese are not ducks, nor is goose hunting like duck hunting. Geese are far tougher to fool, far tougher to kill. But when it all works, there is nothing else that thrills me more. I had such a hunt last week.
Recipe
Snow geese rule the winter skies in Northern California. They are among the hardest birds to hunt -- and are among the most challenging to cook.
Essays and Stories
Whether you call them spooines, spoontang or northern shovellers, these ducks are common in California - and a hunter who ignores them does so at his peril. Until Wednesday, that would be me.
Essays and Stories
Duck Duel Deux is done. More than 24 hours of prep work culminated in a return to the line after nearly 20 years - where I learned just how hard it is to do precision cooking for a crowd.
Ducks and Geese
The foie gras debate centers on whether it's natural and humane: Do waterfowl fatten their own livers in the wild? They do. A liver from a duck I shot recently was so fatty it qualifies as wild foie gras.
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When life gives you lots of ducks or geese (this happens a lot with snow goose hunters), you should make…
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This is a fine-grained, almost emulsified sausage reminiscent of a real Polish Kielbasa, but with my own flavor combinations and duck…
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This recipe is adapted from the Derrydale Game Cookbook by L.P. De Gouy (my sister designed the current edition), and…
Wild Game
If you are looking for a good goose breast recipe, this is it. There’s something about waterfowl and citrus that…
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