Not just for the birds
According to our blog stats, we get hundreds of hits and searches for chukar and upland bird recipes every month. I have no excuse, but we haven't posted a new recipe on here for a while; it's been about five years to be exact. Thanks to Peat, Angus, Bob, and on good days when I …
Last week while searching for a recipe, I found an old crinkled recipe clipped years ago from a magazine.  The original recipe, courtesy of Al Roker, uses chicken coated with a  pecan-cornmeal crust and then oven-fried. Recently, we've thought about the strangeness of chukar hunting. Al Roker and chukar in the same sentence, now that's …
This is our upland game bird recipe modification of the classic Italian dish. 16 fresh sage leaves 8 large, thin slices prosciutto 8 chukar breast halves (4 whole breasts) 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour ½ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 tablespoons butter ¾ cup sweet Marsala wine 2 tablespoons capers in …
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I found myself in the lucky situation of having a lot of birds to cook, and the not so lucky situation of having my first nasty head cold of the season. I craved something hearty, comforting, and good for me. Chicken soup never sounds good to me, so my wonderful wife suggested we make some …
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Now that most chukar seasons are over, one of the things we can do to bide the long months ahead before next season opens is to come up with some good dishes using the birds we have waiting for us in the freezer. I like making risotto but had never done it with birds before. …
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