Wild Rice Goose and Other Dishes of the Upper Midwest

by John G. Motoviloff

Overview

This is your guide to cooking wildfoods that you can hunt, fish, or forage--or buy from a growing number of wildfoods vendors--in the Upper Midwest. You'll savor treasured recipes like Rabbit Pie, Venison Stew, Orange Pheasant, Morel Mushroom Scramble, and Cathy's Plum Lake Bluegill. You'll also discover a wealth of dishes reflecting the region's ethnic riches--from Hassenpfeffer to savory Pierogies with Oyster Mushrooms, from flaky-crusted Goose Tortiere to Catfish Curry.
Wild Rice Goose also revives overlooked dishes popular in times past. If you have carp, redhorse, smelt, or turtle, dandelion greens or mulberries, you can turn these humble finds into tasty treats with tips from experienced fishermen and foragers. Cooks will appreciate the clear, kitchen-tested recipes, and fans of sporting literature will enjoy the lyrical writing.
You'll find here:
- more than 100 recipes for wildfoods from asparagus to venison
- sidebars on regional foods, specialty preparations, and folk history
- tips on finding and cleaning game, fish, and wild edibles
- advice on freezing and drying
- a list of Upper Midwest wildfoods vendors.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299299040
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	07/08/2014
Edition description:	1
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John G. Motoviloff is a hunter, fisher, forager, and writer. He's out in the field more than 100 days a year and shares his kitchen expertise in wildfoods-cooking workshops throughout the region. He's the author of the books Wisconsin Wildfoods and Fly Fisher's Guide to Wisconsin and Iowa. Motoviloff lives in Wisconsin, where he splits his time between Madison and a timber-frame cabin in the Kickapoo Valley.

Table of Contents

Preface                       
Introduction                           
 
Big Game
Red-Wine Marinated Venison Steaks                        
Best Venison Burgers                        
Grilled Venison Tenderloin                            
Venison Chili                         
Venison Stew                         
Venison with Broccoli                                   
Venison Meatloaf                              
Venison Pot Pie                                 
Josh and Amanda Harford's Mineral Point Pasty     
            Everything That's Old Is New Again: Wildfoods in the Restaurant Kitchen            
Fruited Venison Roast                                   
Bohemian Pickled Venison                            
Venison Goulash                                
Serbian Sausages with Venison                                  
            What Goes into Sausage Making                   
Venison Kielbasa                               
Venison Pozole                                  
Moose Stroganoff                              
Grilled Moose Chops                        
Thai Curry with Moose                                
Sweet and Sour Bear Steaks                           
Biscuits and Gravy with Ground Bear Meat                        
Bear Kotlety                          
Wild Boar Chops                               
 
Small Game
Best Fried Squirrel                             
Squirrel Stew                          
Squirrel with Dumplings                                
            Dressing the Part                               
Rabbit Pie                              
Rabbit Creole                         
French Rabbit with Mustard Sauce                           
Hassenpfeffer                        
Marinated Grilled Rabbit                               
Rabbit with Currants                         
Braised Snowshoe Hare                                 
Denny Weiss's Roast Beaver                         
 
Upland Birds
Whole Roasted Pheasant                               
Pheasant Avgolemono                                   
Orange Pheasant                                
Cherry Pheasant Breasts                               
Pheasant Paprikás                              
Oyster Mushrooms with Pheasant Breasts                          
            Farm-Raised Game                            
Grilled Small Gamebirds                                
Gamebirds au Vin                              
Quail à la Bud                        
Mango Wild Turkey                          
 
Waterfowl
Simple Roasted Duck                        
Halved Boneless Duck                                   
Mushroom-Roasted Duck                             
Morel Mushroom Stroganoff                        
Currant Roasted Duck                                               
Canvasback with Celery                                
Duck Gumbo                         
Duck and Barley Soup                                   
Dirty Rice                              
Fancy Duck Liver Sauce                                
Wild Rice Goose                                
Wild Rice-Goose Casserole                           
            Wild Rice                               
Grilled Goose Breasts                        
Goose Tourtiere                                 
Apricot Roasted Goose                                 
Early Season Goose                           
Roast Goose with Sauerkraut                        
Coot in Gravy                        
 
Fish
Trout Cakes                           
Poached Trout with Lemon Sauce                             
Trout with Ham                                             
Salmon with Chimichurri                               
Grilled Whitefish   &160;                           
            A Tough, Cold, Rewarding Job                                 
Denny Weiss's Microwave Fish Fillets                                 
Fried Smelt                             
Cathy Czachor's Bluegill                               
Fish Tacos                             
Fish Cakes                             
Walleye Almondine                           
Smoked Carp                         
Pickled Fish                           
Panfried Sheepshead              
Grilled Sturgeon                     
Turtle Soup                            
Iowa Baked Turtle                             
Crawfish Boil                         
Freshwater Fish Chowder                             
Clear Russian Fish Soup                                
            Making a Metal Drum Smoker                                  
            Caviar in a Half-Pound Tub? You Betcha!                            
Whitefish Caviar with Blini                           
Other Ways of Serving Whitefish Caviar                              
Baked Northern Pike                         
 
Wild Edibles
Blintzes with Fresh Berries                           
Buttermilk Pancakes with Berries                             
Berry Jam                                          
Cecilia O'Brien's Mulberry Syrup                             
Black Currant Vodka                         
Classic Cobbler                                  
Johnsons' Hickory Nut Pie                            
Hickory Nut Brownies                                  
Basic Wild Rice                                              
            A Wild Mushroom Primer                             
Wild Rice Quiche                                           
Wild Mushrooms in Butter                           
Morel Mushroom Scramble                           
Puffball Fritters                                 
Wild Mushroom Pierogi                                
Wild Mushrooms in Cream Sauce                             
Wild Mushroom Risotto                               
Cooking the Wild Asparagus                         
Dandelion Green Salad                                   
Wild Green Salad                               
 
Fish, Game, and Wildfoods Vendors                         
Index

Editorial Reviews

"A soulful hunter's and fisherman's cookbook covering fish, small game, upland birds, waterfowl, and big game. There is a nice balance between pages of recipes that may give you some original ideas in the kitchen with discussion of the nature and history of the region's wild game."--Gray's Sporting Journal


"A must-have addition to the outdoorsman's home or cabin kitchen bookshelf. Motoviloff knows his stuff--and his stuffing. Wild Rice Goose offers a culinary sampler of the wild bounty of the Upper Midwest, along with just enough advice to help the budding hunter-gatherer collect and prepare the fruits of our lands and waters."--Dan Small, host of Outdoors Radio and coauthor of the Wild Harvest Cookbook


"John Motoviloff possesses an unequaled breadth of knowledge in combining regional hunting and fishing. His enthusiasm for the subject leads to equally enthusiastic, indeed sometimes lyrical, prose."--Jerry Minnich, author of The Wisconsin Garden Guide


"Motoviloff digs deeply into hunting, fishing, and foraging culture to provide unique insight into local and often underutilized and misunderstood food resources."--James Norton, coauthor of The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin

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