Showing posts with label Cast Iron Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cast Iron Cooking. Show all posts

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Going Feral: Fishing season is over, and hunting season has begun.

Fishing season is over, and hunting season has begun.

I am, by vocation, a hunter.  A hunter of wildlife and fish.  And I'm not exaggerating.

This isn't a hobby with me.  I'm stuck in a feral past, or perhaps a more feral future, but lving in the present.  

And I'm more of a hunter than a fisherman, in contrast with my father, who was the other way around

The first two seasons of the year open on September 1.  Like most years, due to my occupation (which most people, at least who are professionals, would claim as their vocation, although I'd wager that it is with less than half, very conservatively), I worked.  Opening weekend for me, therefore, is usually when I first get out, and I first get out for the greatest of the wild grouse, Blue Grouse.

They are, I'd note, delicious.


This is a somewhat complicated story, but because of the route I take in, I need permission to cross, which is always forthcoming but I didn't hear back in time this year. That meant that I needed to drive into a location a good two miles further from my normal jumping off point.


And the road, due to the heavy rains this year, and the winter snow, was eroded to impassable. So the walk was further than expected.


But still very pretty, in the morning light.

Because of the very long hike, and my recent surgery, I armed myself with a kids model 20 gauge and buttoned my shirt up to my neck.  Because my old M1911 campaign hat was a casualty of a rattlesnake event two years ago, I wore a replacement United States Park Service campaign hat.  I don't like it nearly as much as my old M1911.

I will say that those wearing synthetic hats are, well, missing the point, and the boat.


The entire trip involves some mountain climbing for the dog.


The dog won't eat in the morning (poodles and doodles are strange about this) due to excitement, so I packed his uneaten breakfast with me. When we hit the high country, he was by that time hungry, in spite of his excitement.


Those boots?  White's smoke jumpers.  Best boots ever.


We hike a fair amount. The dog drank out of a few streams, but I also carry a canteen and he's learned to drink out of a canteen cup.



We found and bagged two young grouse.




And ate them one that evening.  I fried both, that night, and had the second one, reheated the second evening.
 

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Page (and Blog) Updates for 2021

 


We've been really bad about updating the pages and features of this blog for one reason or another, but there have been a few recently, so we'll start off this thread by noting those.

One rather obvious thing is we reformatted the layout.  Now items appear on the left margin as well as the right.  The reason is that the items linked in have grown so large that they trail out beyond the posts, no matter what we do.  They still do, but not as severely.

We also culled a bunch of the linked in blogs on the right.  Some are just gone, mostly due to the links being dysfunctional, but many others now are down in the inactive blog list.  Some blogs just stop, and that's where the links to those are.

We also fixed some links that weren't working.  Turned out a few blogs linked in at the right actually update regularly, but their links were incorrect, so their content was being missed.

October 4, 2021

Hmmm. .  I really need to update the pages around here.  Indeed, I know that I've put up piles of posters on the main site, for one thing, I know that I need to add to the collections.

Well, anyhow, there is a new page added to the site:

The Killetarian Cookbook:  Cooking Wild Game.

This was just put up, and it doesn't have any recipes yet. As they're added, as with other pages, I'll update here.

Promise.

October 4, 2021, cont.

The Killetarian Cookbook:  Cooking Wild Game.

Added to.

October 7, 2021

Added to:  The Killetarian Cookbook:  Cooking Wild Game.

Antelope recipes.

December 1, 2021

Added to: They Were Lawyers.

Banastre Tarleton.

Monday, January 2, 2017