Wild Bites #23: a 3-minute read that makes you smarter about wild food and tells you what's to come on the website, podcast, YouTube, or To The Bone. -Hank & Holly (Team Hunter Angler Gardener Cook) Here's what's
trending on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: - Foraging wild asparagus. It can be found in every state, and there are maps that will show the nearest counties where you might find it.
- Ramp pesto. Nothing celebrates spring greenery quite like pesto.
- Smoked turkey breast keeps the meat nice and juicy on your wild
bird.
- Duck noodle soup is still going strong -- it helps that this recipe can be as easy or difficult as you want to make it.
- Hank has put decades into perfecting the hamburger, and you'll find the keys in his venison burger recipe.
Moving up the list: How to make
scrapple. Scrapple is a hybrid meatloaf-sausage common in the mid-Atlantic states, notably Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania -- scorned by many, loved by those who know, and devoured by Holly as soon as the above photo shoot was over. Love these or any of Hank's recipes? Please rate them while you're there so people searching for recipes know they're worth clicking on! 2. Re-Design: We Want Your Feedback! We launched a website redesign this week, and while we think you'll love it, we also need your help with it. There are almost always bugs and glitches when you redesign a site this big, and if you encounter one, we'd love it if you'd let
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We welcome other non-problem comments, too! 3. What Is This Recado Negro? Recado negro is one of the more unusual, and distinctive, flavor bases in Mexican cooking. It comes from the Maya regions -- Yucatan on south into the countries of Guatemala and Honduras. As you might guess from the color, it hinges on charred ingredients, and once made, it can be stored in the refrigerator almost indefinitely. Use it whenever you need flavor that is cool and smoky, but with picante and sweet elements.
Learn how to make it
here. 4. Smart Take: Roasting a Whole PheasantRoasting whole wild upland gamebirds can be fraught, but there are three tricks to doing it
successfully: - An 8-hour brine
- A searing-hot oven, followed by a stint in a cooler
oven
- Resting the cooked bird
Read the details in Hank's simple roast pheasant recipe. Hank cooked a fancy dinner for 65 at the swanky Wing & Barrel Ranch, a pheasant club and sporting clays establishment in Sonoma. He and the house kitchen crew, who were amazing, put on a Spanish feast of gambas al ajillo, pheasant escabeche, chilindron, and even a plate of boquerones for a surprise pescatarian. He'll be fishing in Nebraska next week with Jenny Nguyen of Food for Hunters, before heading off to Kansas City and Oklahoma. Want to find Hank out there on the road? He updates his list of public events regularly. Save the date for Sonora Night in Kansas City on May 18! Arrachera tacos on the left, avocado-tomatillo salsa on the right Holly is committing kitchen blasphemy. Arrachera is, by definition, skirt steak or
flank steak. Holly, however, does not have any dead-cow parts in the refrigerator or freezer, so she took Hank's arrachera recipe and made it with skinless snow goose breasts, topped with Hank's killer avocado-tomatillo salsa. Waterfowl meat cannot emulate the delightfully loose grain of skirt or flank steak, but the marinade works really well on the red meat of wild waterfowl breasts.
The key: cutting the breasts in half so they are still the same length and width, but half the thickness. This isn't too hard to do if you make the cut when they're still just a bit frozen. Start by cutting them in half across the width, which will expose the thickest part of the meat, making it easier to position your knife for easy cutting. 6. Last Day for 15% Off Fishing Hoodie Today's the last day to get 15% off our new HAGC ultralight fishing hoodie. Yeah, you might be buried under snow right now, but the earth still rotates on a tilted axis, so warmer weather will come. If you use the link above or the button below, the discount should automatically be applied at checkout. If
it's not, just use coupon code FISHON. Comments?Let us know what you think about Wild Bites by using our anonymous comment form - we love to hear from you, and we read every single comment. If you have a question, fire away and be sure to share your email address so we can respond. |
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