High Country Comfort Foods: Part 1

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 – 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

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....
Sauces – The Derrydale Game Cookbook

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...
Fishing Lake Texoma, Deadsticking Technique

Fishing Lake Texoma, Deadsticking Technique

DEADSTICKING – MORE ACTION THAN THE NAME IMPLIES The only thing the fishing technique known as “deadsticking” has to do with the word “dead” is the lack of activity by the fisherman before the hookset, especially when dealing with those hard fighting stripers...
Sausage Stuffed Quail, Wine Pairing

Sausage Stuffed Quail, Wine Pairing

A Fall Favorite: Sausage Stuffed Quail and Wine Pairing  A season to revel in the cool breeze and crisp lowcountry air, fall is a time for gathering around the table with good conversation. After a day in the field here at Brays, there’s nothing better than cooking up...
Earthly Yuletide Decor – Natural Christmas

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

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

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

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.