Recipe for Grouse Pie

Recipe for Grouse Pie

With bold herbs and spices and a delicate, flaky crust, this grouse recipe takes the classic pot pie we know and love to the next level. One of the few exceptions, this recipe has to be highly seasoned. Cold leftovers of grouse are delicately prepared in this method....
14 Key Tips for Game Cookery

14 Key Tips for Game Cookery

If you are planning to include wild game recipes in your Thanksgiving menu this year, The Derrydale Game Cookbook offers a few tips to bring out the best flavors in your game meat. 1. An old guard of a game bird has no other place in cookery but to be used either for...
Russell Chatham’s Roasted Duck

Russell Chatham’s Roasted Duck

The hill’s contour was pink with slanting light, so much like a Russell Chatham painting. I looked down at the large gray breast of the mallard and thought about the meal to come. I rounded a bend of a winding, western Montana creek, and the heads of two mallard...
NFL Legend Bert Jones: A Bird Dog Man?

NFL Legend Bert Jones: A Bird Dog Man?

It might surprise you to know that NFL legend Bert Jones and his father Dub are hard-core quail hunters and bird dog men. Joe Augustine, who happens to be a friend of mine, is one of the handful of sportsmen who’s bagged every species of upland gamebird in North...
Tips on Preparing Waterfowl for the Table

Tips on Preparing Waterfowl for the Table

Excerpted from The Remington Cookbook, Jim Casada offers a few tips and tricks for preparing delectable duck and geese recipes. Do it Easy or Do it Right: Skinning versus Plucking Visit any waterfowl camp or sit with several buddies in a duck blind and sooner or later...
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...