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Yes, I went there. An all-duck hot dog. Wild ducks have never tasted so good!
Konigsberger klopse, a German meatball made with with anchovy, capers and lemon zest. It's normally done with veal or pork; I used wild boar.
A wild game take on the classic chicken and dumplings: Pheasant and dumplings. Pure comfort food.
Not your everyday pasta: This pasta is made with wapato, a wild aquatic tuber also called arrowhead or duck potato.
A refined dish of wild mushrooms in a parsley sauce: Seared black trumpets, hedgehogs, crispy guanciale and quick-pickled yellowfoot chanterelles.
A rich, custard-style ice cream with pine nuts and desert wildflower honey
Smoked duck or goose is one of the great joys of this world. Add a little maple flavor to the applewood smoke and you are in heaven!
The ultimate mushroom burger, done with venison. The secret? Powdered wild mushrooms in the burger mix, then fresh ones sauteed on top...
This is a classic recipe for roast duck, a wild canvasback in this case. The fried hominy cakes are from a 120-year-old recipe.
A wild game take on a classic chicken dish: Your parents' chicken piccata becomes an updated pheasant piccata.
Braised duck legs simmered in duck stock with leeks and wild mushrooms.
Dove breasts encrusted with sunflower seeds, served over beans and a cilantro-green chile sauce - topped with a fried quail egg.
Grilled wild doves Spanish style, with sage, rosemary and smoked paprika.
Is there really anything better than fresh baked huckleberry muffins? I didn't think so...
Sorbet made with wild Sierra gooseberries and pear liqueur. Refreshing - and unusual...
Homemade ice cream made with wild elderberries and a little creme fraiche.
A Louisiana classic: Gumbo made with, well, whatever meats you have in the freezer. Venison, duck, pork, etc. Oh, and ya gotta have okra!
A wild game version of the Hunan classic red-braised pork, made with wild boar. The dish was one of Chairman Mao's favorite meals.
Homemade venison sausages, flavored with wild sage, juniper - and a little gin.
We caught some leopard sharks the other day, so I sauteed them in olive oil and served them with a sauce of tomatoes and wild mushrooms.
A cooling summer salad of pheasant or chicken with fennel bulb, fresh green fennel seeds and fennel pollen.
Homemade pici pasta, a hand-rolled fat spaghetti from Tuscany, served with a tomato-fennel sauce and pecorino.
A rare soup indeed: Italian cicerchia beans in broth with pheasant confit and borage leaves.
After foraging for sassafras roots in New England, I decided to study some old recipes and make my own root beer syrup - just add seltzer!
Grilled fresh spring porcini with a morel sauce made with demi-glace and Port wine.
A foraged meal: Wild mountain violets with raw spring porcini mushrooms, tossed in olive oil and Chinese rice wine.
Venison tenderloin with fresh morels and a Port wine sauce.
When life gives you fresh, wild mulberries, make sorbet out of them!
Dorado (mahi mahi) dredged in masa, sauteed in avocado oil, over a nopalitos salad with a sweet-spicy prickly pear sauce. Salud!
My version of the French Laundry's duck breast roulade wrapped in chard, with wild goose, scorzonera puree and duck demi-glace.
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This is a celebration of everything good in spring: morels, asparagus, artichokes, ramps, fava beans, and a fried pheasant egg!
A Sicilian-inspired pesto with almonds and oregano, only I replced garlic with spring ramps.
This is my riff off the classic Sardinian soup of tiny clams and fregula pasta, only I used mussels foraged from Tomales Bay in Northern California.
Not all gnocchi are made with potato: These are ciciones, a Sardinian saffron-and-semolina gnocchi, served with a rich venison tomato sauce.