Getting to Know Your Friendly Neighborhood Oyster

Getting to Know Your Friendly Neighborhood Oyster

October is oyster season in the southeast, and there are a few things the United Oyster Ranchers and Rodeo Association of America doesn’t want you to know about the common oyster. “Secret, a­­­nd self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” – Charles Dickens “He was a...
Simple Venison Oven Stew

Simple Venison Oven Stew

Versatile to a degree that is unmatched by any other type of wild game, venison offers a doorway to fine, incredibly varied fare. Each year millions of hunters enjoy the timeless thrill of getting their deer, and the result is plenty of meat for the family table. Yet...
Roasted Duck with Honeyed Figs

Roasted Duck with Honeyed Figs

Whole plucked and roasted ducks make for a lovely presentation—especially a single teal per person, which is just right for a dinner plate. For the Brine 1 cup kosher salt 1 cup organic cane sugar 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, crushed 4 allspice berries,...
At Home on the Range

At Home on the Range

Cooking on wood is like blowing a goose call or a trombone. Showing you is easy, telling you is hard. The scud stacked up over the northeast, a gray washboard above the sea, to the horizon and beyond. Too late for a hurricane, but the wind didn’t care. Raindrops big...
Recipe for Hunter’s Breakfast Cups

Recipe for Hunter’s Breakfast Cups

From The Lodge at Black Pearl Cookbook, Vicky Mullaney shares her breakfast recipe that will awaken the cowboy in all of us. On one of our early fly fishing trips out West we stayed at the Diamond J Ranch in Ennis, Montana. They served us a very hearty breakfast every...
Must-Have Cookbooks for the Sportsman

Must-Have Cookbooks for the Sportsman

An eclectic compilation of favorite game and fish cookbooks from one avid disciple of wild edibles. In recent years, Steven Rinella has used the catchy moniker “Meat Eater” as a pathway to a popular television show, a means of conveying an important conservation...
Home-Cured Honey/Brown Sugar Ham with Blackberry Jam Glaze

Home-Cured Honey/Brown Sugar Ham with Blackberry Jam Glaze

I made the very best ham I have ever tasted and after reading this week’s column, I have absolutely no doubt you can easily accomplish the same. Don’t get the wrong Idea when you read some of my columns that pertain to outdoor cooking. I’m certainly no chef but I...
Solving an Environmental Crisis One Bite at a Time

Solving an Environmental Crisis One Bite at a Time

What’s one man’s wild hog overpopulation problem is swine dining for another It’s so dark that I can’t see the end of the rifle I’m holding. Ahead is the enemy, a herd of perhaps 20 wild hogs that we can hear rooting, grunting and snorting like a rugby scrum. I peer...