Product Description

About This Book: Preparing Fish and Wild Game is a complete book of dressing, cleaning and cooking techniques for preparing fish and all types of wild game, including big and small game animals, game birds, waterfowl, and wild turkey. The recipes were selected for simplicity in ingredients, low to moderate preparation time and wholesome nutrition. Nutrition information is included with each recipe. This book stands as the cornerstone book for the Complete Hunter and Freshwater Angler brands.
Highlights:

Contains more than 400 recipes and more than 600 color photos.

Explains how to fillet, skin, dress and clean all types of fish and game.

Includes more than 100 cooking tips for fish and game.

Contains recipes for preserving, smoking, appetizers, salads and main dishes.

Includes recipes for indoor and outdoor cooking that work for a variety of situations: deer camp, shore lunch or gourmet cooking.

Sidebars offer value-added tips for preparing and making sauces that complement the dishes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #174633 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Amazon.com Review
It's one thing to return from a productive foray to the field or stream, but it's something else to know what to do with the bounty you've lugged back with you. Regardless of your culinary skills, Preparing Fish & Wild Game will beguile you into bringing sport to the kitchen as it painlessly turns cooking what you've caught into as exciting an experience as taking it was in the first place.

With more than 100 recipes for fish (Hot and Sour Bass Soup; Lemon-Cucumber Stuffed Trout), big game (Moose Meatballs with Cranberry Barbecue Sauce; Venison Satay with Spicy Peanut Sauce), small game (Sour Cream Rabbit with Herbs; Sherried Squirrel), and birds of all feathers (Sautéed Wood Duck with Balsamic-Date Sauce; Wild Turkey Picatta with Morels; Partridge and Hazelnut Salad), this beautifully illustrated cookbook targets a cuisine that's as adventurous as it is sophisticated. More importantly, it clearly details the techniques necessary both to create these feasts and to preserve what you can't immediately use.

From simple pan-frying, poaching, grilling, and baking to the complexities of whipping up the appropriate stocks and sauces, Preparing takes you by the hand and leads you through the mysteries. Its combination of step-by-step text and accompanying photos also shows--as well as tells--you how to smoke, can, make sausage, clean and store fish, age and dress game, and safely freeze the wild harvest. With a guide like this, the only limit on a fascinating and natural array of flavors will be determined by your facility in the field, or lack of it. --Jeff Silverman

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Customer Reviews

Wild Game Cooking Made Easier
My finance is an avid hunter of game and wild birds, but I'm a complete novice when it comes to cooking it. So I bought this book to help guide me. I think it's both an extraordinary cookbook and a topnotch reference guide, and should be a definite addition to any game cook's library. The photos are wonderful, the recipes are easy to follow, and there's a range of easy, intermediate, and difficult recipes to try. A wide range of game, wild birds, and fish are included, so there's usually a recipe for the type of food you have.

Preparing Fish and Wild Game--Review
This book is more than a cookbook. I could call it the bible on Wild Game preparation. Admittedly, not all forms of game common in North America is included. But the book does include the common forms of wild game, big game, and more improtantly, how to clean/dress the meat.

The cleaning/dressing of the meat is included in the back of the book. There are well detailed colour photographs to assist the novice with the steps. Once one has an idea on how to dress game or clean fish, the idea of hunting or fishing becomes more exciting. By properly preparing the meat from the get-go, one has greatly improved the possibility of a truly extraordinary meal preparation. For those who have not had the priveledge of a father or a loved one who could show one "the ropes" on dressing game or cleaning fish, this book is indispensible. For those who have had the priveledge, this book is a great refresher course. This book makes a great gift either way.

The book also includes techniques on how to clean Northern Pike and remove the "Y" bones. These bones are most troubling. Instructions are included for other fresh water fish including bullheads and catfish.

The recipes are first class and include delictable photographs. I have not tried all of the recipes, but just reading what one can do with fish and wild game makes one salivate.

Our grandparents and great grandparents may have eaten this way, but much of this experience has been lost through the generations. One cannot obtain most of these meats at the local grocery store, for instance. After obtaining one's Fish and/or Wild Game, one can have in mind the terrific recipe that he/she will try. This book is a book of fine cuisine, and is by no means "The Road Kill Grill". You even get the per-serving counts of calorie, protein, cholestrol, carbohydrate, etc., not to mention the "Exchanges".

My only problem that I found with this book is the cooking time/temperature for the Canada Goose recipe on Page 190. The 425 is just too high and the 35 minutes is too short. The meat was not done after 35 minutes, and when it was done, it was tough. It tasted great, however, with no "gamey" flavour. I plan to try 325F and 2 hours next time.

Because of this experience, I regret to give this book a "4". I still highly recommend "Preparing Fish and Wild Game" because it is extremely difficult to find such a wealth of knowledge in one place.

Must have!
Great resource for skinning and dressing game (especially great for beginners wh want to see photos of where to cut). All the recipes we have tried are excellant. My 12 year old son cooks from this book all the time! If you hunt, you need this!