Simple Gourmet: Pheasant Breast Stuffed with Brie and Berries
Pheasant breast stuffed with brie and blueberries and wrapped in bacon is delicious and is even worth buying the brie.
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Simple Gourmet: Best Tartar Sauce & Baked Rainbow Trout
Rainbow trout are delicious. Their flesh is firm and tender. Best of all, they don’t taste “fishy.” This recipe for baked rainbow trout is terrific on its own, but combined with this light and zingy tartar sauce, it’s a meal even fish-averse people will love.
Simple Gourmet: Smoked Elk Pastrami
I like ground meats, but I prefer food made from the whole meat. This smoked elk pastrami is an excellent way to use the tough meat from the shoulder and create food you can take to work or on your next hunt on a sandwich.
Simple Gourmet: Fried Elk Heart
My kids love heart, and they talk about eating it all year. It’s too bad elk (or deer, or bears) only have one. Fried elk heart is a great way to enjoy it.
Simple Gourmet: Venison Sausage French Toast Bake
Venison sausage, fluffy eggs, and toasty bread: It’s a match made in heaven. My kids eat this up, and my wife loves it, too.
Simple Gourmet: Canning Smoked Trout
When you bring home a bunch of fish, canning smoked trout is a great storage option.
Simple Gourmet: Morel Mushrooms & Bear Backstrap
I don’t love cooked mushrooms. Having said that, I love cooked morels. I’ll show you how I drizzle morel mushrooms over bear backstraps. Morels make you look like a great cook.
Simple Gourmet: Deer Sausage Scotch Eggs
Scotch eggs are like a complete breakfast in a compact bundle. They are pub food in Britain, but I could eat them for any meal — serve them mustard, ranch sauce, or maybe maple syrup at breakfast. The best part is that they are simple to make and they put your wild game sausage to good use.
Simple Gourmet: Szechuan-Style Noodles with Bear
The GunsAmerica team had a dish like this at SHOT: It was delicious. The soup broth is full of flavor from several spices, and the braised meat is tender and tasty. We had it with beef, which was mostly fat, and the whole time I was dreaming of eating it with bear meat.
Simple Gourmet: Badger Potstickers & A Fun Hunt
I know what you’re thinking: “Badger Potstickers?!” But don’t worry, they’re easy to make. The hard part is hunting the badger.
Simple Gourmet: Hobo Dinner with Mountain Lobster
Kids love to do hobo dinners because they make their own and they eat it out of the foil it cooked it. It feels really rustic. And when they caught their own meat, that’s even better!
Simple Gourmet: Elk Steak with Black Pepper Sauce (Taiwan-style)
This sauce is flavorful and spicy and a little sweet. Use it on any red meat to finish the flavor. I used it here on backstops from last year’s cow elk. It would also be excellent on a roast.
Simple Gourmet: Butter Bear
If you’ve eaten Butter Chicken at an Indian restaurant, then this dish will be familiar. Butter Bear is rich and creamy, and simmering any meat in this sauce for a while will make it tender and delicious.
Simple Gourmet: Game Sausage, Duck Egg, & Apple Breakfast Sandwich
There’s no denying: An excellent breakfast sandwich will take you a long way up a mountain before you stop for lunch or stop to process the critter you just killed. McDonald’s has a good handle on the system, but you can easily do better with quality meat, egg, and cheese.
Simple Gourmet: Wild Boar Burritos (Yes, Really!)
I continually hear from many people that insist that wild boar is inedible. I shouldn’t be surprised, though: I’ve been told that all the other “boars” are inedible, too.
Simple Gourmet: Game Bone Broth
Bone broth is very simple to make and you can use it in all kinds of recipes that call for stock or broth.