Roadkill Barney

It’s springtime in the Rockies, and that means the days are getting warmer and the grass by the side of the road is getting green. A sad result of this spring awakening is that deer frequently graze by the side of the road, and as a result there are many deer that get hit by [...]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

I had read some of Barbara Kingsolver’s works of fiction, but a friend told me about this book, and I knew I just had to read it. Kingsolver and her family embark on a one-year experiment to try to eat only local food, and to raise as much of it as they can themselves on [...]

How to Clean Pheasant

I am actually just going to link to a good description from the Kansas Department of Wildlife site, but I did clean a pheasant for the first time last week, by myself, with no idea what I was doing. A friend showed up unexpectedly at my door with two pheasant that he had gutted but [...]

Catfish cakes: Good eats

Sometimes my husband and I get frustrated/disappointed  when we are out fishing for our coveted Walleye, Crappie or Bass and we reel in a catfish.  Once we started making these cakes we changed our minds!  Now everytime we catch one and are dissapponted I have to say,  “Good Eats” to remind both of us how [...]

Edamame salad

Salad
1 bag frozen edamame – shelled
2 handfuls broccoli slaw
1 cup sprouted grains – by alfalfa sprouts at grocer
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
2 cups seedless grapes – halved
1 apple peeled and cored – diced

Vinaigrette
1T toasted sesame oil
1T pre-made vinaigrette
Dash Bragg’s/soy sauce
Salt and pepper

Mix all ingredients together and toss with vinaigrette – can change quantities if need be [...]

Deer Hunter

Annie’s first deer hunt, October 2007

Let me start by saying I have been traipsing around the woods of Colorado, Elk hunting for 6 years now. I DO NOT have one in the bag. I have smelled, spooked, tracked and pushed them, but have not killed an Elk – YET! But I did [...]

Annie 2, Barney 1

Sept. 1, 2009, Grouse hunting, Lenado.

Barney and I went hunting in Lenado. (Few things for the audience – I am a much newer person to the ol’ hunting game than my husband. When I started I told his friends to treat me as though I was their 13 year old younger sister, [...]