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Filson Food: Dutch Baby with Morel Mushrooms
The months of April and May are prime mushroom season. But morels are particularly fickle, requiring conditions to be just right before making their grand debut in spring. Our friends...
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Food & Recipes
How to Build an Overland Camp Kitchen
Brendon and I have been traveling by motorcycle for just over a decade. We’ve ridden on many different style bikes—from a sport bike, to a cruiser, to a big adventure...
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Filson Food: Pheasant with Tarragon-Lemon Carrots
“A whole roasted pheasant takes time to pull off correctly. Rush the process and you’ll end up with a dry, lackluster-tasting bird that will make you wonder why you didn't...
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Filson Food: Garlic Mustard Potato Salad
Early European settlers brought garlic mustard to North America for food and medicine. Meeting favorable conditions in the New World, the species escaped from gardens, thrived, and spread uncontrollably. Today,...
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Filson Food: Stinging Nettle Quiche with Smoked Alaskan Salmon
If you’ve ever brushed against stinging nettle, you know it and you remember it. The burn, caused by chemicals in the tiny hairs that cover the plant, can be felt...
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Filson Food: Smoked Wild Alaskan Salmon
Nearly every Alaskan who harvests salmon has a smoking recipe or two (or a dozen!) Up their sleeves. Including everything from traditional strips to kippers and pressure-canned to frozen, pieces...
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Filson Food: Campfire Cajun Rockfish
Like many of the other reef fishes on the Pacific coast, rockfish has a mild, white flesh, which makes it a versatile fish that takes on the flavor of any...
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Filson Food: Northwest Cacciucco
This version of cacciucco uses seafood sourced from the Pacific Northwest instead of from the Mediterranean, as would be typical in Italy. The seafood used in this dish was caught...
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The Smokejumper – Filson Hard Eggnog
In this version, I set out to make an eggnog drink that calls to mind sitting around a campfire out in the forest. I found Westland Peated Single Malt Whiskey...
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Filson Food: Chukars & Sagebrush Recipe
There may be no greater way to enjoy a meal than by going into the bush and cooking your harvest in the field from where it came. Although not native...
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Life Amidst the Tundra: Susie Jenkins-Brito
I was born and raised in southcentral Alaska to parents who instilled in me an appreciation of the natural world early on with a backyard sled dog team and a...
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How to Make Farmer’s Cheese
If cheesemaking sounds a little outside of your wheelhouse, rest assured that we’ve got the perfect way to get started. Farmer’s Cheese is widely enjoyed across Europe and can be...
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DIY: Campfire Smoked Venison Jerky
When it comes to classic trail foods, jerky is always on the list. Whether purchased at a gas station on the way to the trailhead or made from a deer...
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Filson Food: Spicy Duck Wontons
One of the common misconceptions about hunting is that every time a hunter goes out into the bush or the blind, they come home with food for the table. Although...
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Filson Food: Homemade Venison Chili
In my book, there is only one type of chili and it isn’t packed with beans and a scant amount of low-quality ground meat. A real chili should have chunks...
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Filson Food: Black Bear Currywurst Sausage Recipe
Most people may not know that bear meat is not only edible but also delicious. The meat is similar to beef in appearance and makes amazing stews and sausages. Although...
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Filson Staff: Campfire Cocktail Recipes
A summer evening spent around the campfire is incomplete without something to take the edge off. We turned to Filson's staff for a few fresh takes on our tried-and-true tin...
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Filson Food: Shrimp & Grits
This ranks as one of the most versatile dishes I have cooked in recent memory. It is just as delicious served for breakfast as it is served for a late-night...
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Rancho de la Luna Mezcal: An intoxicating new jam from rock icons
Rancho de la Luna sits on a hill surrounded by the otherworldly desert landscape. The unassuming adobe home has hosted sessions with many of the true legends of rock and...
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Filson Food: Roasted Beaver Tail Recipe
If you were a trapper back in the frontier days, a beaver tail was something that would have you licking your lips. Long, hard winters were filled with lean, wild...
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Filson Food: Drunken Bacon S'mores
You know what a s'more is. They've been a camping staple around the fire for as long as any of us can remember. But what we have here today is...
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Filson Food: Pork Shoulder with Foraged Asparagus & Wild Spring Onions
Spring onions are truly wild and much more abundant than asparagus. They can be found in drier climates in open clearings and among sparsely treed Douglas Fir forests. The challenge...
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Filson Food: Dungeness Crab Cakes
If you have only ever eaten crab cakes at a restaurant, then you have not had amazing crab cakes. It's a bold statement, so allow me to explain. Crabmeat is...
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How to Kill, Cook, & Eat Dungeness Crab
One of the best seafood the West Coast has to offer is without a doubt Dungeness crab, and when it comes to seafood, fresh is always best. This recipe isn’t...
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Filson Food: Fire-Baked Dutch Oven Cobbler
Backcountry fire-cooked desserts often take a back seat to more common campfire dishes, like breakfast hashes and one-pan meals. This is a mistake. It is true that most dessert recipes...
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Filson Food: Campfire Steak & Hash
One of the challenges in the backcountry is pulling off cooking a meal without all the equipment we are used to in our home kitchens. This challenge also makes it...
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Filson Food: Cure Your Own Venison Bacon
Before you start licking your chops imagining sitting down to venison bacon and eggs in the morning, we must disclose that this is not that kind of bacon. If you...
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Filson Food: Basic Cut, Carve, & Processing Techniques
There are a few ingredients that every home cook should know how to properly prepare. Today professional chef Connor Gabott walks us through how to cut, carve, and process each....
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Filson Food: Cast Iron Blueberry Pancakes
This recipe works equally well camping, as it does on a lazy weekend morning. Pancakes are pretty perfect already, but this version takes it to whole other level, topped with...
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Filson Food: Elk Heart Tacos with Mojo de Ajo
Heart is without a doubt the most underappreciated cut of meat in any game animal. The specific game animal makes no difference; from mallard duck to Shiras moose, I would...
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Filson Food: Field to Table Morel Mushroom & Ricotta Appetizer
As snow melts off mountain peaks, and yellow balsamroot bloom in valleys below, it’s time to take to the woods where an elusive delicacy of the season awaits. Introducing the...
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Filson Food: Buck & Black Bear Game Stock
As a hunter, I pride myself on using as much as possible from the animals I kill. One great way to really maximize the yield from a game animal is...
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Filson Food: Eggs in Purgatory
Eggs in purgatory. It's a simple and humble dish made with few ingredients yet still delicious. Despite the limited ingredients, it's a synch to make and easy on the wallet....
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Filson Food: Santa Maria Venison Sirloin
When we think of American BBQ, we tend to think of Southern BBQ: slow-cooked brisket, pulled pork, pit beans, coleslaw, etc., but there are a lot of other BBQs to...
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Filson Food: Roasted Pheasant Jalapeño Poppers with Bourbon Red Pepper Jelly
A version of this recipe can most likely be found in every single hunter’s recipe rolodex from the Florida Panhandle to the Olympic Peninsula and everywhere in between. It is...
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Filson Food: Whole Salt Crusted Fish with Horseradish Cream
Cooking in a salt crust is essentially a method of steaming, but instead of using water to steam, the salt crust holds in the natural moisture from the fish to...
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Filson Food: Squirrel Carnitas
Hunting squirrels is no easy task. However, if you are lucky enough to catch one of these elusive creatures, these carnitas will prove that it’s well worth the effort. This...
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Filson Food: West Coast Seafood Chowder
Chowder is a dish that can be found up and down both coasts of the United States and each regional interpretation has its own unique local style. Regardless of the...
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Filson Food: Duck Cassoulet
Some of the best things in life require the most time and effort to do them right. This recipe is one of those things.
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Filson Food: Fire Baked Mac & Cheese with Boar Bacon Burnt Ends
Here is a grown-up version of a dish we all loved as kids—and some of us never really grew out of. With the addition of a few spices, aged Gruyere...
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Filson Food: Apple Braised Pork
This Pork Shoulder recipe is sure to never disappoint. Make this in the cooler months and make sure to make extra—it gets better as the flavors have time to hang...
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Filson Food: The Perfect Cast Iron Steak
There are many ways to cook an amazing steak, but none beat the simplicity of a cast-iron seared steak basted in herbed brown butter. Try it once and you will...
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Filson Food: Texas Style Bourbon BBQ Sauce
This sticky, spicy, bourbon-infused sauce is designed to add zing to a barbeque brisket or slow-cooked meat dish – works great on ribs, chicken, salmon, or pork.
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