Podcast

Hunt Gather Talk Podcast: All About Squirrels

Hunt Gather Talk returns for Season Two! This season is sponsored by Hunt to Eat and Filson, and Episode One is all about squirrels, with Arizona Game & Fish biologist Johnathan O'Dell.

My Best Taco Recipes

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Essays and Stories

The Things We Do for Mallards

To many, duck hunting means mallard hunting. Not us. We don't see many mallards. So that's why we were willing to drive 12 hours to chase them.

Recipe

Nordic Goose Soup

Goose soup, Nordic style... sorta. A clean, bright goose soup with Nordic ingredients, but made in the style of Vietnamese pho. It's awesome.

Wild Game

On Plucking Birds

To pluck or skin? It's a question all bird hunters face. Most of a bird's distinctive flavor is in its skin and fat, but plucking can be tricky. Here's how to go about it.

Wild Game

Fried Doves and What They Eat

What goes together in life goes together on the plate. Fried dove breasts served with a pilaf of wheat, corn and edamame soy beans - things doves eat.

Ducks and Geese

Easy Roast Duck Legs

I love duck confit, but it can take a while to make. This is an easier way. If you roast duck legs with this method, you will get the same effect as confit but in less time. Meltingly tender meat with crisp skin. Do this recipe with either duck legs or goose legs.

Ducks and Geese

Duck Stir Fry with Scallions

This is a classic Chinese stir fry with easy-to-find ingredients that I make with wild duck or goose -- specifically snow geese, sea ducks or divers. Yes, you can eat them and in this recipe you'd never know they're not "good ducks."

Foraging

Feeling the Burn

Morel hunting the way I do it is a lonely affair. Miles walked in a beaten, burned landscape. A morel here, a morel there. It's not the bonanza of a big burn, but I wouldn't give it up for anything.

Recipe

German Bockwurst

Germany is the land of 1,000 sausages, and this is a good one. Actually, my bockwurst recipe is definitely more German-American than traditional. Here in the US, bockwurst isn't smoked very often, and it is a softish sausage that has cream, eggs, parsley and chives. This recipe works with any meat, but I did it with snow geese.

Ducks and Geese

Roast Wild Duck

How to roast a duck so that you get crispy skin and meat that isn't horribly overcooked. There are nuances to this, so read on. Oh, and sorry: This only works with wild ducks.