Recent content by CDN

Wow, you guys are amazing! Lots of info and ideas to consider! I really appreciate everyone taking the time to respond to an outsider, if you are ever coming to Georgia, please let me know I'll take you fishing and cook you a southern meal!

Guys, I am a regular contributor in the Recipes Section, but I am seeking your advice. My in laws live in Beaverton, Oregon and we have a trip planned to visit in late August or September, and I want to go on a hunting or fishing trip while there. I really want to go on an elk hunt, but limiting...

Yep, they put a hurtin' on my diet too!

I have been a deer hunter all my life. I have eaten pork ribs all my life. As a child, I would watch my Dad skin and quarter a deer, watch him drag the remaining carcass off into the woods for the buzzards. With the ribs always still attached. When I grew up and started processing my own deer, I...

I have been really lame about coming on here and contributing lately, and for that I apologize. Work has been busy, I'm knee deep into writing my cookbook, the kids are out school....hey, sounds like life, huh?! We made this dish for Father's Day breakfast and it turned out to be a homerun! Feel...

I recently had a taste for a little wood flavored venison, so I could sit back here in the spring and reminisce about my success from last November (hate to brag but here's a little picture, just in case you haven't seen my buck!) Okay, enough showing off! Sorry, now back to the recipe...

Not in Shady Dale, Georgia!

I took the girls to the hunting land recently to hopefully catch a stringer full of crappie for a big fish fry. So we loaded up the rods and reels, a cooler of snacks and a bucket full of minnows and headed out! But after about 2 solid hours of floating live minnows under a bobber with no luck...

On a hunting trip to Saskatchewan a few years ago, we stopped at a convenience store for gas and some snacks, and they had some riblets that were fried. They were really good, and my buddy Walt Rabern and I deducted we could put a southern twist on it by smoking them and then frying them! Turns...

With the good luck that I have had this deer season, I wanted to use some of the meat to do something that I have wanted to do for a while but just never took the leap to give it a try - make venison sausage. With a stroke of good luck I came in contact with Mike Greco with Papa Greco's Sausage...

Growing up in an outdoorsy family, we spent many a summer vacation camping in the wilds of the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina. Some of my best memories from my childhood are my cousin, my brother and myself running around like wild men all day in the hemlock forests, keeping...

Christmas is the perfect time of year for family get togethers and lots of good food. A few years ago, my family started smoking a prime rib for Christmas dinner, and we quickly found out that those hard earned dollars spent on that expensive hunk of meat will turn to gold when you put in a...

We love Italian food and decided to try and put a new twist on lasagna by using ground venison AND cooking it on my smoker. By building a big oak fire in the fire box, we created a wood fired oven that turned out the best lasagna I've ever had! Here's what you'll need: Olive oil 2/3 cup...

Yep! Been to all those places over the years, and you are right they can be pretty good. The State of Georgia has seriously reduced the stocking schedule in the mountain streams due to budget cuts, so the numbers can be tough. The potential for a big fish is much better in the Hooch tailrace...

We don't have the incredible trout fishing here in Georgia that you have out there in Oregon, but we have a decent fishery and here's a little recipe for some smoked trout tacos! I had the good fortune this past week of spending the day on the Chattahoochee River with one of my best friends...