Nature Morte

The phrase is used for “Still Life” in French, though it has other obvious connotations,

I went out with the 16 bore but without a dog yesterday, in a brief work break, to try to bag a cottontail for dinner. I though the doves had mostly left “downhill” to the Rio but a flock rose as I approached the dirt tank on the ranch. I fired once and one fell– first quarry of the season.

9 comments

  1. “Dove on A Toothpick”

    Ingredients:

    1 dove, breasted
    1 strip, fatty bacon
    1 jalepeno pepper
    1 toothpick

    Preparation:

    Tuck pepper into dove meat. Wrap stuffed breast in fatty strip of bacon. Pierce with toothpick. Grill to taste.

    Serves: 1 very small person.

  2. Matt-
    That is one of my favorite dove recipes, using half or a third of a seeded pepper, and an equally sized stick of sharp cheddar along side of the pepper.

  3. “I fired once and one fell”

    A friend’s favorite passage from a certain book: “‘Four!’ he said with a grin. ‘Uh, we usually shoot them flying.’ ‘That’s why you miss'”.

  4. md: The cheese is a good addition. A friend brought over some marinaded venison backtrap one night last year, cubed and wrapped in bacon with pepper jack cheese and a jalepeno. Toothpick through all. You could not grill them wrong. We tried, but every one of them turned out delicious.

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