Recipe

Homemade Sheboygan Brats

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

Recipe

Ukrainian Borscht

A classic, beet-based Ukrainian borscht recipe using venison. It's rich in flavor, but not sweet at all.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Desert Quail

We're talking about Gambels, Mearns and scaled quail in this episode, with hunter biologist Kirby Bristow. If you've ever wanted to hunt the desert, you won't want to miss this one!

Charcuterie

How to Make Rillettes

How to make rillettes from scratch at home. Rillettes are a sort of rough pate that is great with pork, wild game and fatty fish.

Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk: Gamebird Guru

In this episode, I talk with biologist Rocky Gutierrez, the Yoda of game birds. Mountain quail are our focus, but we go into so much more.

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.

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.

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.

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.