Sauce Recipes

Mallard duck flying - Waterfowl brine recipe

Upland Game and Waterfowl Brine

Here’s a way to make your upland game and waterfowl taste better. After you’ve carefully cleaned and rinsed your game, drop them into this brine overnight or for at least 3 – 4 hours. What it does is replace game blood with a slightly salty flavor that will enhance, not cover up the flavor of…

Champagne Orange Sauce

This is a smooth buttery sauce that’s great over fish, chicken, eggs or vegetables. Especially worth making the day after a party and you have a few leftover champagne bottles. I hate throwing that stuff down the drain.

Creamy Avocado Vinaigrette

Takes less than 5 minutes to make this delicious vinaigrette and will trump your typical ranch dressing. I’ve seen people inhale whatever I put this on. Get yourself an inexpensive squeeze bottle to add your vinaigrette for ease of use.

Fish, Tomato, Avocado and Basil Beurre Blanc

If you don’t have any fresh basil handy, use any other fresh herb you like or leave out the herb part altogether. The type of fish you use is not critical. The recipe works with just about any fresh fish. Obviously, this recipe is better when the tomatoes are homegrown, not the ones in the…

Chipotle Citrus Marinade for Fish

Best used for firm, oily to semi-oil fish like salmon, yellowtail, dorado and any species of tuna. Don’t marinade for too long (only 1-2 hours) or else your fish will become a jello-y mess – or more like ceviche, which isn’t all that bad either.

Red Eye Gravy (coffee breakfast gravy)

Red eye gravy isn’t an exact recipe. Just start with some of the pan drippings from whatever happened to be in the pan after you cooked your game sausage, or other meats, add some dark brown sugar, strong brewed coffee and reduce the liquid to thicken, adding extra coffee to the pan if you want…

Herb Vinaigrette

For all fish, shellfish and game. Check out my trout recipe using this here. It makes plenty of dressing to keep on hand, so enjoy throughout the week! Use more basil as it is an excellent source of carotenoids such as beta-carotene, which can help to avoid free radical damage and hey, we all want that.

Peter B’s Barbecue Sauce

Some barbecue sauces just aren’t that good on their own – but they are great when cooked with meats/fish. This one can do double-duty as both. It is from the former Peter B’s Freeport Inn, just south of Sacramento, California.

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