An elk or venison stew inspired by the flavors of the Rocky Mountains. Here's what's trending on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: - Small game hunters are hitting the woods, and if you come home with some rabbits or squirrels, give my Greek rabbit stew a try. Stifado is an old 0school Greek dish that is fantastic with cottontails or jackrabbits.
- Duck seasons are open in most of the country, and with the weather cooling, my simple duck soup hits the spot. It's amazing with the carcass of a smoked bird, but just as good with a leftover roast duck carcass, too.
- I've been making
Finnish meat pies every week up here at grouse camp, and the hunters love them: Tasty as hell, great at room temperature and easy to take with you on the hunt.
- Got puffballs? If so, try something a little different, like my Chinese stir-fried
puffballs. It's a fun take on ma po tofu, only without the tofu.
- Finally, we're always looking for recipes that use ground venison. You could do a lot worse than make my venison ragu, which is a homey Italian
pasta sauce great for Sunday supper.
Moving up the list: Dunno why, but everyone's making my recipe for German meatballs, konigsburger klopse. It's a great recipe for virtually any ground meat.
Love these or any of my recipes? Please rate them while you're there so people searching for recipes know they're worth clicking on! Acorns are dropping and are ready to process. No matter where you live, some species of oak is dropping acorns -- and yes, all species are edible. Some are fatty, some starchy, some tiny, some huge. If you are oak curious, start with my primer on how to eat acorns. This goes over the ins and outs of starting the process. Mostly I make acorn flour and use that in various baked goods, as well as pasta. Peoples the world over use acorns, and I wrote
about how they're used here. Here are some great recipes that use acorns. - If you want something other than flour, try making acorn grits with bits of acorns from "sweet" oaks like white oaks or emory or cork oaks.
- Acorn muffins are fantastic, easy and versatile. You can put all kinds of wild berries or nuts in
them.
- One of the first ways I ever ate acorns as as a smooth acorn soup. It's a nutty, autumnal bisque.
- You can use acorn flour to make German acorn spaetzle, which is a wonderful accompaniment to wild game of all kinds.
- If you have a sweet tooth, try my acorn shortbread
cookies. They are a little tricky to make, and can flatten sometimes, but if they do, they're still tasty cookies!
It's time! Cold enough to wear a hoodie, and since it's hunting season, why not wear a blaze orange one for deer, upland or hell, if you just want to be in the woods picking mushrooms and not get shot... I have a
limited number of these hoodies available in sizes from medium to 2XL (I also have one 3Xl, so first one gets it!) and, I am offering a 15% discount off to newsletter subscribers only. Use the coupon code BLAZE at
checkout to get your 15% off. Good luck out in the field, and may your game bags be heavy! A dove hunt served as the perfect "soft opening" for this new life of mine. It was a quiet hunt, one I needed desperately -- not only for peace of mind, but also to rejuvenate my love of bird hunting, something I wasn't sure I still had. My latest article on To the Bone is all about picking up the pieces of an old life, and deciding what to carry with you as you move forward and grow as a human. If you like what you read, it would mean the world to me if you would consider subscribing to To the Bone. You can start subscribing for free, and upgrade to paid if you want to support my work. Thanks in advance for considering it. 5. All Grouse Camp, All the Time Still up here at the Pineridge Grouse Camp, and will be until November 4. It's been a grind, especially since basically everyone on staff got sick last week -- I tested negative for the 'Vid, but who knows? It was a bonding experience for everyone, because we all helped each other out as one got
sicker and went out, the other got better and stepped up. I wrote about this -- and about being compassionate to those who don't get sick days -- in my latest essay on To the Bone. Welp, we sold out of the salmon I caught in Alaska, but there is plenty more salmon that has been processed in exactly the same way -- pressure bled and blast frozen -- over at Yakoni Fisheries. And my coupon code is still good until October 20. Use the coupon code HANKONDECK for 15% off fish from Yakobi Fisheries, I'll be writing about a day in the life of a lodge cook for To the Bone soon, so stay tuned for that one. Until then, be excellent to each other... ~ Hank Comments?Let us know what you think about Wild Bites by using our anonymous comment form - we love to hear from
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