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Got a freezer full of wild game but not a whole lot else in the pantry? Grocery stores and restaurants closed, or you just straight up don’t want to be around people? Fear not, the MeatEater crew can help. Welcome to Freestyle Cooking, where we share simple dish ideas based around common, household ingredients and recipes that we often invented on the fly. 
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, sometimes you need to cook...

It was part collision of available foods, part childhood “science project.” I was probably around 12 years old, with a pile of pink salmon on my hands, a backyard full of ripe blackberries, and a Little Chief smoker. I’d made my standard-issue brine, but on a whim decided to smoosh in a pound of juicy, dark purple berries that happened to be sitting nearby on the kitchen counter.
I was surprised by the results to say the least. After brining all...