Ducks and Geese
Chinese Duck Legs
Like Chinese BBQ? You'll love this recipe. Use duck legs or goose legs, braised in Chinese barbecue sauce.
Foraging
Fiddleheads Stir Fry with Pork
Fiddleheads are in season in the East and Pacific Northwest, and these crunchy, pretty looking shoots are one of the hallmarks of springtime. They're featured here in a simple Asian stir fry with wild boar backstrap.
Wild Game
Shredded Turkey Yucatan
Few places celebrate turkey like Mexico. It is where the turkey was domesticated, and there are scores of great recipes for these birds there. This is a traditional Yucatan turkey recipe, using legs, thighs and wings that are marinated, grilled, then braised.
Podcast
Hunt Gather Talk 9: Hunting the Northeast
In this episode of Hunt Gather Talk, I talk with turkey hunting expert Tony Caggiano. Yep, it's turkey season, but there's a whole lot more to talk about when two New York-New Jersey natives start jawing about the outdoors...
Wild Game
Chaos Theory and Roast Partridge
Roast partridge, grouse or quail is a wonderful idea, but in practice the bird often comes out dry. Pan roasting is a far better way to roast game birds. This is by far the best way to cook upland birds, or small, skinny ducks like teal.
Featured
Loving the Unloved: Pukekos
Pukeko. Such a cool bird, yet so unloved by the New Zealanders. We hunted and cooked a bunch of this cross between a pheasant and a coot on our trip to Kiwi Country, and learned to love this fascinating game bird.
Mexican
Pozole Verde
Pozole is a classic Mexican soup, and like many Mexican dishes, it comes in red and green. I like both, but this is the green version I make with pheasant or wild pig, hominy, tomatillos, green chiles and avocado. Damn good use for pheasant legs, if I say so myself.
Recipe
Sorrel Sauce
Sorrel sauce. It's so basic, yet so profoundly useful... and awesome. Sorrel tastes like lemonade in a leaf, and both wild and cultivated varieties grow like weeds in any garden. This rich, tart sauce is perfect with pasta, poached fish or poultry, or any other lightly cooked meat.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Simple Roast Pheasant
A recipe for simple roast pheasant that uses an easy brine and a hot oven to get perfectly done legs while keeping the breast moist and juicy.
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.
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Pheasant with Apples
There is something about the combination of poultry and apples that just sings. This dish, Pheasant Normandy, is loaded with apple flavor and is larded with butter and cream. It requires no special technique or esoteric ingredients -- it's pure comfort food, and all it asks of you is a little time.
Recipe
Wiener Schnitzel
Wiener schnitzel goes by many names, but whatever you call it, this is a bedrock recipe you need to know as a cook, whether you work with wild game or not. It's quick comfort food that can be made with an array of meats, ranging from pheasant and wild boar to veal, pork or chicken.
