Pheasant Salad with Fennel
Cooling salads are the way to go in summer, especially here in Northern California, where 100 degrees is pretty normal.…
Pheasant Confit
This is a great method for preserving and eating the legs of upland game birds like pheasants, grouse, partridges or quail.…
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Beer Can Pheasant
It's hot. I don't feel like cooking outside much. And I have lots of wild game in the freezer still. What to do? BBQ! Been meaning to try beer can pheasant for a while - and it works!
Beer Can Pheasant
Beer can chicken is one of the best ways I know to roast a chicken, especially in summertime, when you…
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Spruce or Fir Tips Syrup
Ever eat a tree? I know, I sound like Euell Gibbons. But really, you can eat the fresh growing tips…
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Turkey Marsala
I miss Marsala. I ate it a lot in restaurants while growing up, usually with thin veal cutlets. When veal…
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French Hunter’s Stew with Pheasant
I developed this French version of chicken cacciatore from a recipe I found in Roy Andries de Groot’s Auberge Of…
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Brined Roast Chukar or Partridge
This is a lovely, simple recipe for roast chukar; Hungarian partridges would work fine, too — as would a domestic…
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Grouse Soup with Wild Rice
This is a dish I came up with as a use for two skinned grouse I had from a trip…
Foraging
Cooking Matsutake Mushrooms
After having never even knowing of their existence for the first 30 years of my life, I’ve recently been cooking…
Pheasant, Grouse, Quail
Roast Grouse and Minnesota’s Glories
I’ve met many here in California who think that all good things can be had in our Golden State, where the magic…
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Simple Roast Grouse
A simple roast grouse is no simple thing. No cook ever has an abundance of ruffed grouse — and it…
