“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” ~ Jimmy Dean Every year for St. Patrick’s Day, I put a corned beef in the crock pot to slowly cook throughout the day, make a loaf of Irish soda bread […]
Author: a12gaugegirl
Whiskey Rosemary Cream Sauce over Deer Steak and Mushrooms
“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.” ~ E.M. Forster Growing up, I hated mushrooms with a passion. My dad loved them. He would always order pizza with everything on it, including white button mushrooms. I could smell those white button mushrooms […]
Deer Eggs Benedict with a Tarragon Béarnaise Sauce
“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” ~ Elon Musk Those are truly great meals that you eat slow, share stories, and possibly go back for seconds, or thirds depending on how long you decide to wait before you make the effort […]
Coconut Pheasant Soup
”All really wild scenery is attractive. The true hunter, the true lover of wilderness, loves all parts of the wilderness, just as the true lover of nature loves all seasons. There is no season of the year when the country is not more attractive than the city; and there is no portion of the […]
Homemade Pheasant Stock
“Be worthy of your game.” ~ George Bird Evans Learning to process game meat has been an eye opening experience. It is a challenging and ever-evolving labor. Cleaning a harvest is different, not only for different groups of animals, but even for different species within a specific subgroup of animals. For example, it is obvious that a fish […]
Pepper Jack Venison Steak and Onion Sandwich
“Sometimes hunting isn’t about hunting at all.” ~ Anonymous Hey all! I have the pleasure of sharing a deer recipe from a guest blogger this week. Pepper Jack Venison Steak and Onion Sandwiches is a recipe created by Amanda from the website Deer Recipes: Keeping it Simple. Amanda is a “deer meat-acholic” and she created […]
Tips for Duck Hunting Beginners: Like Myself!!!
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” ~ Michael Caine When I was little, every Saturday morning I crawled out of bed just before the sun came up, poured myself an oversized bowl of cereal, parked myself in front of the television, and watched Saturday morning cartoons. […]
Something Sweet, Something Satisfying, and Something Upside Down: A Dutch Oven Dessert!
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” ~ Ernestine Ulmer What can I say about dessert that hasn’t already been said? It is sweet, it is satisfying, and there is always room. How many times have you leaned back in your chair at the dinner table, belly full of what you are calling “the best meal” […]
The Most Important Meal of the Day: A Dutch Oven Breakfast
“What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?” – Anthony Bourdain Guess what kind of shoes I have on today? Sandals! It has been an unseasonably warm winter here in southeastern Utah, and spring has arrived much earlier than past years. I looked up the average temperature for our area in […]
Adventure Four: Pheasant Hunting
“No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.” – Teddy Roosevelt Pheasant hunting had pretty much become a hunt of the past in Utah until two years ago. Most of the areas I remember my dad hunting when I was little have not had pheasants for several years. This has been a problem […]