Wild Bites #73: a 5-minute read that makes you smarter about wild food and tells you what's to come on the website,
YouTube, or To The Bone.   ~ Hank  Swedish meatballs better than IKEA!  Here's what's trending on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: - Glad to see my recipe for green enchiladas doing so well! These enchiladas are versatile: You can put nearly anything inside the tortillas. I love dove, grouse, pork, cheese, mushrooms, you name it. Â
- Teal seasons are on everywhere, and my recipe for grilled teal is an absolute winner. These little ducks are perfect for grilling.Â
- Winter squashes are ripening, and you'll love my recipe for
squash bread, which is a little like the pumpkin bread you get at Starbucks... but better.Â
- Another great idea for fall is to make carrot pickles. My recipe is
for lacto-fermented brine pickles, so no vinegar! They're really, really good...
- It's finally chowder season, so why not kick it off with a Lake Erie inspired perch chowder? You can of course use any fish you want.
This one has smoked sausage in it.Â
- It wouldn't be Wild Bites without meatballs! This time I'm highlighting my family recipe for Swedish meatballs. I normally use venison, but any ground meat
works.Â
- Love me some homamade burgers, and this green chile elk burger is so good I put it in my new cookbook Borderlands! You can use any meat here.Â
Moving up the list: For you okra lovers out there, try my roasted okra recipe. It's simple, easy, and most importantly, not slimy! Â Â Â
  Love these or any of my recipes? Please rate them while you're there so people searching for recipes know they're worth clicking on!  2. Huge Hunting/Foraging RaffleBuy a book from here to Christmas and get entered to win a free foray or hunt! From now until December 14, I am running a special raffle for either a hunt, fishing trip, or a foraging or mushroom foray with me in 2026.  If you buy a book from my shop, and use the checkout code RAFFLE, I will give you 10% off the already discounted price of the books AND you'll automatically be entered to win a spot in one of my culinary hunts in 2026, OR I can take you on a mushroom hunt or a plant foraging walk.  The foraging would be in the Twin Cities area, unless you want me to come to you -- which I will, but I'd need to have my travel expenses taken care of. Timing would be mutually agreed on between us.  Here's how it will go: - Buy a book from me -- any
title -- and use the code RAFFLE at checkout.Â
- Each book purchase counts as a ticket, so if you buy 3 books, that's 3 "tickets."
- Every book bought with the RAFFLE checkout code will be entered to win.Â
- I will draw the winner at random on December 14.Â
Grouse hunting has started all over, and chasing our various native chickens across all the habitats they live in is one of my great joys. As you read this, I'll be coming home from a prairie chicken hunt in Nebraska, so stay tuned for more recipes... I hope.  Ruffed grouse has started, too, as have the magnificent blue grouse of the mountains. Here are some of my favorite grouse recipes:  A bumblebee on a savory plant.  Herbs are still going strong, even here in Minnesota. I get asked a lot about what makes my cooking different from others, and one aspect
of that is my heavy use of herbs in my recipes.  Aromatic and tasty herbs are so diverse and impart such varied flavors that in many cases a dish isn't "right" without them -- even if you don't consciously taste the herb itself. Epazote in black beans is one example, as is thyme in many European dishes.  I wrote about how to grow and cook with herbs over at To the Bone, and I hope you get some useful information from it. I also recently wrote about the importance of volunteer plants, too -- those plants that chose to live in
your yard, often for a reason. It's an inportant part of gardening.  If you can, please subscribe to To the Bone. Even a free subscription helps me out, and if you can support my work thorugh a paid subscription, it would mean the world to me.  I'll be on the road this fall!  Not gonna lie. This has been the most challenging book tour ever. With the economy faltering, I am hearing over and over and over that you're tightening your belts, and going out for a nice dinner is one of the first things to go. I get it. I feel it, too. That's why I am shifting to more online stuff, like the hunt
raffle above.  But I am soldiering on with a few final book events because I really want to get out there and see y'all.  Up first is a weekend in Georgia on October 4 and 5. I'll be at the Decatur Book Festival on Saturday, October 4, where I will demo my
recipe for empalmes, a fun appetizer from Nuevo Leon I think everyone will love. Then on Sunday the 5th, I'll be teaming up with Chicheria Mexican Kitchen in Atlanta for a Baja-inspired book dinner. I am really excited about this one! Hope to see you there, and if
not, please share those links with someone you think might want to attend.  After that, I'll be in Albuquerque on October 23 at Marble Brewing for a book party with borderlands beers and food. The tickets for that will open soon, so save the date! After that will be a
swing through Texas in November: Dallas on Nov. 6, Austin Nov. 7, and El Paso on Nov. 10. I'll let you know when tickets are available for those.  I'll finish up back in Minnesota at the Forest Fair on December 13, where I will be doing a demo of my recipe for wild greens and wild mushroom tacos! This is a free event, so just show up and get a signed book!  ALSO: I really need reviews on Amazon -- you can leave a review here -- because those reviews can make or break a
someone's decision to buy the book. You can leave a review even if you didn't buy the book on Amazon!  Enjoy the fall, everyone! Soak it up, get out hunting, fishing or gathering mushrooms -- you still have time before the snow flies!  ~ Hank Comments?Let me know what you think about Wild Bites by emailing me at hank@huntgathercook.com. If you have a question, comment, or request, fire
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