Category Archives: Recipes
Bear stew recipe will warm you up on a chilly day – Cooking Wild Game
Cooking tasty bear chops is simple – Cooking Wild Game
Breakfast with dandelions
Dandelion greens – those things my mother made me eat as a child and then said, “Don’t screw your face up like that, they’re good.” They weren’t good. They weren’t. Nothing made them good…except time. I don’t know why. They’re dandelion greens. They haven’t changed. But now they taste good. Mum would laugh and say, […]
Maine Maple Sunday recipe – grilled dirty maple shrimp
It was so cold the sap wasn’t running but that didn’t stop Chandler’s Sugar Shack from opening up on Maine Maple Sunday. The sap did run briefly but it was just enough to flush the lines between 3,100 taps. They aren’t too discouraged because it’s going to warm up later this week and when it […]
After the ice storm
This is what my corner of northern Washington County looks like after the ice storm, and before yesterday’s snowfall. These are the most recent photos I have. We lost WiFi during the storm so I’m using the limited service on cell phone’s hotspot. It’s going to be a while before the ice melts from the […]
Cooking with Cranberries
It’s cranberry time in Maine. A handful of Maine’s producers are dry picking their berries while most are flooding blogs and reeling in the berries. I have no personal preference in how the berries we eat are picked. As long as they’re picked and I have 10 pounds to put up I’m satisfied. I don’t […]
Picking Chanterelle Mushrooms
Bear Baiting: The barrel
Smelting at Flood Brook
I’ve wanted to go smelting for years. The last time I went I was seven and a half months pregnant with our first child and Dad took me to dip smelts in the Penobscot River. That “child” is now 28. Uncle Bobby would go smelting, come to our house and clean a bucket of smelts […]
Cooking tasty moose steaks is simple
Moose steaks are one of the simplest wild game meats you can prepare. Following these steps will take your steaks from the fridge to the plate in less than 30 minutes. You’ll need: One serving of steak per person fresh mushrooms scallions salt and pepper butter Take the steaks from the fridge and unwrap. Place […]