Side Dish Recipes

Smoked Wild Turkey

Turkey season is here. Stacy Harris gives us some great tips on how to smoke your turkey. Just don’t forget to brine.

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Boston-Style Beer-Battered Fish and Chips

I “borrowed” this one from a fry cook in Boston. Works well with pretty much any fish, but my favorites include crappie, bluegill, rockfish and other smallish fish. Serve with tartar sauce or your favorite fish dipping sauce.

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Salmon Pasta Salad with Avocado, Tomato and Tarragon Vinaigrette

This is an easy-to-follow cold pasta salad that is perfect for a summer bbq or gathering. Smoke or grill your salmon before for a different taste. Add or subtract fresh veggies to suit your taste. You could also just serve on fresh lettuce greens and skip the pasta if you are looking for something gluten-free.…

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Bacon Fried Squirrel

Anything fried, squirrel included, tastes pretty good. In this recipe, the squirrel is first fried and then simmered in liquid until tender. Pro tip: young squirrels taste much better than old ones. If you are worried about fat and cholesterol, eat a carrot. Looking for more ways to prepare squirrel? Give these recipes a try.…

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Best Apps to Serve for Easter Dinner

Looking for some easy to serve appetizers for Easter? You have come to the right place. These appetizers will make your family and friends want to eat everything in sight! Check out these six recipes and get cook’n. Roasted Quail with Cornbread Stuffing Grilled Quail Breasts, Cheese and Prosciutto Pheasant Breasts with Dungeness Crab Smoked…

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Top 3 Most requested St. Patrick’s Day recipes

Are you getting ready to celebrate your Irish heritage? Not Irish? Don’t fret you can still celebrate and have some green beer. Here are three recipes that will go great with your beer. Guinness Venison Oven Stew Corned Venison Hash Beer Poached Halibut 

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Tom Slater’s Barbecued Wild Turkey

Tom says that the key to this recipe is the use of a real barbecue. Now, I know a bunch of you think that your propane unit qualifies as a barbecue. And I suppose that a Subaru Brat is a pickup truck, too. To Tom Slater, barbecue means smoke – smoke from real wood coals…

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Crispy Turkey with Creamy Pesto Sauce

Now if you had a turkey fryer, it would make this recipe easy to put together. Or use this recipe if you have fryer leftover. And don’t worry if you don’t have pine nuts, you can substitute almonds, although the taste & consistency is different.  

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Dutch-Oven Duck

Whether your heat source is a bed of white-hot coals or a rustic camp stove, a Dutch oven can cook your duck to fall-off-the-bone deliciousness. It’s an old-school slow-cooker for meat dishes that require low cooking temperatures and a little more time to make them tender.

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