Wild Feast
Jim Stone, The Pickleville Philosopher
Well I’m so used to getting up early to get the store opened
up; I forgot I was closed up for the year.
I have a giant list of things I was gonna do but I don’t know what happened.
I got a call but it wasn’t on the phone. It was the call of the wild. Sometimes I don’t answer my phone because it’s
a salesman or someone I can’t understand, but I answer the call of the wild 100
percent of the time.
Anyways our waterfowl season doesn’t open for a month, but
the blue grouse season is open.
For you guys that might not know, grouse is kinda like a big
chicken, but you gotta do a bit of work to find them. Grouse or all birds love wild berries. It’s fun to find berries because normally you
find some big nice grouse too. Today I
got some grouse for my dinner but I was mostly after the wild berries to make sauces
for all the wild game to come.
Raspberries |
Two of my favorite berries to find are mountain ash, they look like a pod of orange grapes; we call them grouse berries because the blue
grouse love to dine on them. The late summer brings a lot of delicate
flowers. I wish I could identify them, I
don’t know much about that. I will freeze
and process all the wild things we gathered today to make wild sweet sauces for
all the wild meat from, I hope, a good year hunting and fishing.
Wild berries go so hand in hand with wild game. It makes me think of how well the pioneers
ate when it was all wild food. They had
to work hard compared to a drive up window
for burgers and fries! Well I got grouse
steaks, wild greens and berries, a cucumber from the garden and a cob of corn
that my friend dropped off. I hope you
all have a great night big smiles from me to all of you.
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