solotripper wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2016 at 3:03am:

:-? ;D ;D After reading THAT menu I'm thinking anything else is just batting clean-up  8-)

Ha, thanks.

Not all of those were my creations. I did do the black bear in Merlot and the venison ka-bobs in satay sauce. My brother did the bison, my niece/god-daughter the crostinis, and my brother in law the rabbit salad and the wild boar, for example. (There are good stories to how we come by some of the wild game. That brother in law was a emergency dispatcher, and he was out with his son and wife one night when police cornered a huge boar that was honest-to-goodness emerging from the nearby woods to terrorize kids in a suburban neighborhood. He ran out there with a .22 rifle and a .30/30, took one look at the size of that monster, grabbed the bigger gun and dropped it with a head shot, then divvied up the meat.)

Over the years we've featured all kinds of animals that we had shot, begged or borrowed -- bear, moose, elk, deer, boar, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, pheasant, duck, frog, catfish, crappie, bluegill, trout and others I've forgotten.

- kypaddler