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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: 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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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: 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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