How to Cook Bear Meat in Bear Fat

How to Cook With Caul Fat

When field dressing a deer, you may notice a sheer, lacy net covering the stomach. Don’t mistake this as something to be left in the gut pile. It’s a web of valuable fat that can be used to wrap around meat to impart flavor, juice and shape. Caul fat, sometimes referred to as lace fat, is a delicate, thin membrane of connective tissue with fat deposits embedded in it. This thin membrane covers the stomach in the abdominal cavity found in deer...

How to Cook Daylilies

Daylilies (genus Hemerocallis) are a common flowering perennial in most of the lower 48. Native to Asia, these hardy plants that are commonly called ditch lilies can be found growing along roads, old house sites, lawns, and just about anywhere else. I love growing these plants for a few reasons—they require almost no maintenance, put up pretty blooms all summer, and they’re very tasty. Almost the entire plant is edible year-round. You can eat the...

How to Cook Diver Ducks

Diver ducks, migratory waterfowl that feed on fish, mollusks, and aquatic invertebrates, get a lot of praise on the wing but a bad rap at the table. Despite this reputation, hunters sure shoot a hell of a lot of them each season. According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the take of shovelers, scaup, ring-necked ducks, eiders, oldsquaw, scoters, buffleheads, goldeneyes, mergansers, and canvasbacks is well beyond a million birds annually...