Outdoor Chef
The best recipes and methods for preparing your wild game.
Bows, Frogs and Flour
Blame it on Duck Dynasty if you want, or maybe on the cacophonous croaking of frogs along the canal near my home, but I have developed a taste for bull frogs. Frogging is considered a summertime pleasure for many of my southern-born friends. It is a rite of passage to muck through the swamp after these amphibians. Bow in hand, I head to the swamp each year...in the high desert of Idaho. No special equipment is needed to[...]
Bear Ham
Bears are like shadows in the forest--to quote a famous Idaho publication. They are cautious, shy, and seldom seen. Bears are omnivores of the highest order, preferring a patch of berries to hunting a deer, but never turning down a meal. They can be bold, they can be predictable, but for me, bears are most often a black butt running over a hill. Every now and then I get lucky in the woods and see a bear that[...]
Canned Rabbit
The jackrabbit was only about 15 yards away when he stopped and gave me the stink eye. I had caught him slinking through the sage and he was now trying to determine if he should run or hold. He should have ran. I drew back my longbow and let my wooden arrow fly. It was wide right and I felt it, then as if by divine dumb luck my arrow glanced off a small twig and hooked left.[...]
Pan Roasted Venison with Salad and Delicious Vinaigrette
The dirt two track was dusty and headed southeast toward a rock out-cropping known as the Rooster Comb. Under the shade of a few junipers and desert sage, we saw the flicker of ears. Dad and I froze. We had been gabbing it up for most of the walk and now we were busted. This was an unexpected place to find a group of four does feeding in the middle of the day, but hunting is all about[...]