Recipe

Sharptail Grouse, Prairie Style

Sharptail grouse is strong-tasting, but I love it, especially when paired with flavors from the prairie where it lives: Wheat, sunflower seeds, wild onion and a rose hip glaze.

Classic Jaegerschnitzel

Jägerschnitzel means “hunter’s cutlets” in German, and the dish was originally made with venison or wild boar backstrap, pounded thin. It is now…

Wild Game

Roast Woodcock: A Dream Fulfilled

I finally get a chance to cook woodcock, thanks to a friend who traded some to me recently. This is the most sought-after game bird in America - and for good reason.

Nordic Grouse Soup

If you like a good chicken soup, you will love this ruffed grouse soup, made with a rich grouse broth,…

Foraging

Black Walnuts and Holiday Cheer

Of all the things I hunt, fish or forage for, nothing requires as much effort as shelling black walnuts. But it's worth it. Black walnuts are to regular walnuts as a diamond is to cubic zirconium.

Foraging

Hunting Oregon Truffles

Think you can imagine the thrill of unearthing a truffle? Sorry, but you can't. Not unless you've panned for gold. Or dug diamonds. It's the same feeling, complete with the whiff of rapacious greed...

How-To (DIY stuff)

Acorn Eating Revisited

It's been another year of learning and experimenting on the acorn front, and the more I learn, the more I love working with "oak nuts."

Grouse Risotto

I recently came upon what I consider the best, most approachable use of the giblets from any game bird: Cajun…

Roast Sharptail Grouse

Sharptail grouse are an unjustly maligned bird. Yes, they are a dark meat bird, unlike their aristocratic cousins the ruffed…

Recipe

Hunting Sharptail Grouse

A year ago my friend Chris and I hunted ruffed grouse in Minnesota. Since then we've decided to chase every grouse species in North America -- this year's quarry? Sharptails in North Dakota.

Wild Game Dirty Rice

Dirty rice is a traditional Cajun preparation, and it happens to be one of the best uses for giblets ever —…