Just like my paternal grandmother’s, which she used on Polenta. “Makes a nice-a sauce”, she would say as she caught the sparrows in the pigeon loft by swatting them with a broom or popping them into a brown paper bag and whacking it on a beam. I have never felt more Italian……. Here she is …
Tag: Food
Summer Woodcock
Georgia friend Gil Stacy has more sense than we did when I hunted Woodcock: he keeps some for the summer mushroom harvests… chanterelles in this case. Also notice the color of the cut flesh. Like all good Woodcock (and snipe) cooks, he sort of passes them through a very hot oven. I get tired of …
Party!
After a slightly exhausting week, the much – postponed party finally straggled in to Reid and Connie’s country manse in Parker CO on Saturday. Not every one could make it (Smokey Paul and Lynne met us at a Santa Fe highway exit to hand over a pistol for Carlos — we still live in a …
Hunting for “Millenials”
This fine video of deer hunting in Paradise Valley is better than 90% of such stuff: Wild Harvest from Native Boy on Vimeo. But it is more remarkable then that, for it is linked to a Huffington Post article, titled “Millenials Must Hunt. I rather like that imperative– not “can” or even “should”, but MUST. …
This year’s Boletes
Not a great year– the southern San Mateos, our main source, were a bit drier than we’d like– but we got a gallon of dried, first adequate harvest in 8 years. The photos span the trip down and back up the Plains of St Augustin by the VLA; flowers, like the white poppies, show we …
One More Link
Best Product Description: “Icelandic Beer Made From Smoked Whale Testicles”. Really. “We started last year with our first whale beer, Hvalur 1. The health department didn’t want us to produce it at first, but we were allowed to. The beer used whale meal as an ingredient, and it was something new for Iceland. It sold …
Found Data
From The Eskimo Cookbook, Shishmarek Alaska, 1952: “Soured Seal Liver: “Soured seal liver is made in the summer here. Place liver in enamel pot or dish and cover with blubber. Put in warm place for a few days until sour. “Most boys and girls don’t like it. Only grownups and old people. “I don’t like …
Book Review #2: Rifle Looney News
John Barsness and Eileen Clarke seem like such normal people that is hard to realize at first just how unusual their “lifestyle” is. They are ubiquitous in the hunting and gun magazines, more so than any other couple I have known (I dare say I have known many of the sporting couples of my time). …
Seasons 2: Big game & harvest
With a little help from my friends– Carlos, Brad, Jim. I am not doing big game these days except in a group, hard in NM if you don’t pay top dollar. Which is why I may move my meat hunts north if health permits… All animals here provided feasts including long- gone lion– see Don …
Hemingway, with burger
I have been saving this found image of Ernest and Patrick Hemingway. Patrick, closer to 90 than 80, doesn’t look all that different today, but then, he did when he was about 8, too. This month, Saveur published a real Hemingway hambuger recipe.We just made two, and I swear it may be the best I …