Fishing
How to Break Down a Northern Pike – No Bones
Follow this guide to break down a northern pike into several boneless fillets, as well as meaty leftovers perfect for making fish stock, soups, stews,
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Foraging
Hunting for Morels
Hunting for morels can be very fun and satisfying. Join the Intrepid Eater as he comes upon a nice haul of the delicious spring mushrooms!
Foraged Foods
How to Make Spruce Salt
Spruce salt is made by harvesting young, tender spruce tips in the spring, blending them with coarse sea salt or kosher salt and letting it dry.
Cooking skills
How to Prepare Artichokes for Dipping
Follow this guide to learn how to prepare artichokes for dipping. Once prepared, the artichokes are steamed, then the petals are pulled off for dipping.
Cooking skills
How to Prepare Fava Beans
How to prepare fava beans – Follow this guide to prepare fava beans in their pods for cooking by shucking, blanching, and shucking again!
How-To
How to Harvest and Cook Stinging Nettles
VIDEO – This video will show you how to harvest and cook stinging nettle. After harvesting some near a creek, I take it home and make a nettle and ricotta pasta!
Foraging
How to Forage for Fiddleheads
Fiddleheads refer to the immature shoots of ferns. Usually when we talk about edible fiddleheads, we are talking about the shoots of the Ostrich Fern.
Foraged Foods
Spring Foraging and Kuku Sabzi with Wild Greens
Video – Spring foraging can be very rewarding. This Persian kuku sabzi egg dish was made with freshly foraged wild spring greens!
Foraged Foods
How to Make Hickory Syrup
VIDEO – How to make hickory syrup? It’s easy! Not only is hickory syrup sustainable and fast and easy to make, it’s also incredibly delicious!
Fish
How to Make Cured Pike Roe
Don’t throw out those roe sacks! Follow these steps to make your own cured pike roe ‘caviar’.
Cooking skills
How to Make Turducken
Follow this guide to make your own Turducken, a dish consisting of a chicken, inside a duck, inside a turkey!
Cooking skills
How to Debone a Turkey (to make Turducken)
How to debone a whole turkey – learn how to debone a turkey in order to make turkducken!
Cooking skills
How to Debone a Duck
How to debone a duck – Follow this guide to debone a whole duck, whether it’s for a turducken, or a boneless stuffed duck roast.
Cooking skills
How to Debone a Chicken
Follow this guide to debone an entire chicken, which can then be stuffed and roasted or used for turducken.
Cooking skills
How To Roast Your Own Pumpkin Seeds
Getting all that pumpkin goop off of the seeds can be a little fussy, but it’s definitely worth it for this healthy, tasty snack! Use any wet or dry seasoning you like.