This has nothing whatsoever to do with canoeing up north, but this part of the forum has had only six posts in the last year, so I thought I'd try to spark some participation by sharing the top part of the menu from a Wild Game Feast I hosted at my house ... let you drool a bit ... and then ask:

What are some of the most exquisite recipes you've made using fish you've caught or game you've shot.

-- kypaddler

I make walleye cakes using - what is for me - a fairly elaborate recipe. They always turn out great though!

My wife has made some creative pheasant dishes, including a soup/stew recipe.

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


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

I guess my smoked Alaskan red salmon appetizer is pretty tame...

solotripper wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2016 at 2:33pm:


I confess I brought my daughter and son up with this saying: "God put animals on this earth for us to eat."

- kypaddler