Squirrel and Dumplings – High Country Comfort Part 2
SQUIRREL AND DUMPLINGS High Country Comfort Foods: Part 2 Although the grand comeback stories of the white-tailed deer and wild turkey have relegated the humble bushytail to a place well down the ladder when it comes to game species favored by hunters, for several...
High Country Comfort Foods: Part 1
HIGH COUNTRY COMFORT FOODS: Part 1 “A body can get the miseries or suffer from mollygrubs most any time,” my Grandpa Joe used to say, “but somehow they seem to come most often in the dead of winter.” He had a bunch of what he considered surefire remedies for these...Sauces – The Derrydale Game Cookbook
Sauces A perfect sauce is always a triumph. A bit of this, a sprinkle of that, a dash of imagination and the most prosaic food is “saucily served.” The preparation of foods so that the most of it is made of natural flavors and textures, that’s good...Chicken-Fried Rabbit
Chicken Fried Rabbit The eating of rabbits and hares has a venerable history in Europe. Greeks, Germans, Spaniards and Britons love rabbits and hares, as do Italians in certain regions. they also happen to be the building blocks of any true hunter’s repertoire....Marinades – The Derrydale Game Cookbook
Marinades The word MARINATE comes from an old Spanish word meaning “to pickle,” and it is the acid of the marinade that does the work, adding new flavor, softening tough fibers, increasing their natural sapidity through the action of penetration, lifting...Earthly Yuletide Decor – Natural Christmas
In today’s world, obtaining the family Christmas tree involves nothing more than a stop at a store, viewing trees stacked side-by-side in a vacant lot, or retrieving an artificial tree from the attic. Real “adventure” in obtaining the family tree involves going to a...A Place for ALL those Upland Decals! – DIY
At some point we ALL run out of room to place our decals on. What to do. If you are like me and have an ever-growing stash of decals, then do I have a solution for you. A DIY on a place for all those upland decals. In the early 1980s it was popular for school kids to...Staying on Course
With fall hunting seasons quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to visit this week about scouting and learning land that you are not familiar with. For a quarter century, I made my living first working on and later running survey field crews. I remember...
How to Shoot a Bow and Arrow
Saxton Pope has been dead for nearly a century, but 21st-century archers can still get a personal shooting lesson from the master via his writings.