Wild Game Recipes

Hunt. Prep. Eat.

When the excitement of the hunt subsides, it's time to prepare your wild game meat. Venison recipes, duck dishes, fish fare and more, our online wild game cookbook provides cooking instruction for preparing your harvest into a delicious wild game meal.

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Small-Batch Venison Sausage

When you think about making venison sausage, it’s easy to envision a garage full of hunting buddies, hundreds of pounds of meat, and tables loaded with sausage-making hardware. Getting a big group together to process all your deer is fun and efficient, but don’t rule out small-batch homemade venison sausage. Whether you have a pile of unused sausage scraps lying around from last season, or you need to use up some neglected steaks or roasts

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Captain’s Braised Wild Turkey Legs

I’ll never stop preaching the value of wild turkey legs in my meat gospel. You’ll get upwards of two pounds of boned-out meat from those “tough” legs. And yes, they are tough—but that’s why you should braise them. Braising is the saving grace for cooking any lean wild game meat. Braised wild turkey leg meat is awesome for cold sandwiches, soup, tacos, nachos, or just a quick forkful of protein when you’re famished after a

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Striper Carlstrom Recipe

This striped bass recipe was originally developed as a salmon recipe by my friend, Michael Carlstrom while camping in Alaska. After moving back to the east coast I adopted for striped bass, but it can be used with a variety of fish.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Fish Tacos with Lime Dressing

Fish tacos are one of our family’s favorite summertime staples. After a day of fishing I am quite tired, but crave eating what our family has harvested. I don’t want to spend a ton of time in the kitchen and fish tacos are an easy, fast, flavorful way to get the fish on the table.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Northern Hogsuckers: Gigging and Frying

Giggers will motor up and down the river slowly, while one to two people gig fish called Hogsuckers or Yellow Suckers from the front of the boat with a metal gig. “Suckers” are not the most popular fish. They are, however, my favorite fish to eat, especially on the river bank a few minutes after gigging. Veteran giggers will say that suckers do not taste as good once they are frozen. The meat seems to

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Wild Turkey Recipe: Grilled Southwestern Wild Turkey Roll

Grilling wild turkey can be challenging. There are a handful of crafty methods for retaining moisture and tenderness in your bird while it’s resting over a pile of dry, smoky coals. This recipe employs a few of them: pounding, marinating and foil tenting. By pounding out the breast, you can cook the meat faster at a higher temperature without giving it too much time to dry out. Marinating in milk puts lactic acid to work

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

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