Your dinner is still in the woods.
My first experience with morels was transcendent. I was, at the time, a sixteen or so year-old who was convinced that I simply did not enjoy mushrooms. I have since seen the light, but back then they were uniformly foul. I was visiting my father’s family on their farm in upstate New York. We went […]
I’ve been cooking a lot of duck around here lately. I was lucky enough to come back from my December hunting trip to California with enough ducks to really max out the available space in the freezer. I had never cooked duck before this, but I picked it up quickly and we have been eating […]
On our third day of duck hunting, we headed out into Suisun bay looking for diver ducks, again guided by the folks from Northwind Outfitters. We arrived at the marina well before first light and climbed into their boat, the Sundance. Full dark all around, we road out into the bay, the heavy salt air […]
Day two began the same as the first. We arrived in the darkness and rode out to the blind along the roads between rice fields on the back of an ATV, stacked three across. It was a moonless morning and pitch dark, the only light emanating from the ATV’s faint red tail lights. Our guide’s […]