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Seared Scallops with White Cheddar Grits, Sweet Corn Chowder, and Pulled BBQ Pork Tenderloin
Chef Kipp Bourdeau Pine Creek Sporting Club Okeechobee, FL Ingredients for the Scallops 8 fresh scallops, u/10 size 1 teaspoon olive oil Directions for the Scallops 1 Remove side muscle…
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Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom
Occasionally a writer comes along with a knack for putting into words aspects of the sporting experience that all hunters feel yet find difficult to describe or share with others…
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Baked Hog Snapper with Steamed Farmer's Market Vegetables
Chef Kipp Bourdeau Pine Creek Sporting Club Okeechobee, FL Ingredients
4 fresh hog snapper fillets, skinned, pin bones removed 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 fresh lemons, sliced thin 8 shallots, sliced…
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Upland in the Blue Ridge at Primland Resort
The first bird up was a chukar partridge and it skied rapidly and then cut left. The sweet-mounting and swinging Caesar Guerini 20-gauge loaner gun barked and the partridge folded…
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Roasted Quail with Prosciutto, Red Onions and Burnt Peaches
Ingredients 1 red onion cut in quarters 1 ripe peach, pits removed, cut in quarters 4 quail, dressed 2 tablespoons canola oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 slices…
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Roasted Quail with Peas, Morels and Parmesan Risotto
Ingredients 4 quail, dressed Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 sprigs tarragon 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon canola oil 4-6 cups chicken or vegetable stock 1 cup dry…
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Chasing Chukar
The very name of the chukar evokes the sound of its call and the ache in my legs at the end of the day. Chuka-chuka-chuka. Idaho’s Salmon River is called…
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Ragout of Quail with Summer Vegetables and Basil Pesto
Ingredients 4 quail, dressed 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 8 pearl onions, skinned 3 cloves fresh garlic, skinned and chopped 1 red bell pepper, cored and diced…
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Montana Magic
You know that feeling when everything is so perfect that your brain shuts down – stops thinking rational or coherent thoughts – and almost goes numb trying to focus all…
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Local Tastes
Here’s an easy one: What are the two largest American whiskey-producing states today? A quick Google search shows Kentucky and Tennessee in a landslide. But before the Civil War, neither…
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Alpine Masterpiece: the Blaser F3
In 1956, a young German machinist named Horst Blaser set up a business to produce a hunting rifle. Although not a trained gun maker in the German tradition, Blaser had…
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Sounds of a Rebel
I loaded the old pointer and was about to invite the adolescent sinner into the car. Rebel had behaved so badly on our last hunt that nothing he could do…
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