I love a good smoked Moose Nose

 Everyday I'm aware that I might stumble upon yet another cookbook to add to my collection while thinking; "do you really need another one"? Yes, okay so there are millions of them out there, but just one more. Finding ones that have a true connection and or a bond with me, will make it a welcome edition into my ever growing collection. 

If it is a"newly published" cookbook, I first check it out from my local library, sometimes having to use the "interlibrary loan" service. Once the cookbook arrives I will scan, read, try recipes and decide if it will be a worthy addition to my collection. Thus buying a copy when I'm able to fit it into my lowly cookbook acquisition budget. The wish list is long, the dollars short...

Todays unexpected find, at my local library, on a shelf labeled "new books" beside the checkout counter sat a copy of "The Meateater" Outdoor Cookbook. No Way!

I have watched all of Steven Rinella's series "The Meateater" and was pleased to see he had published a cookbook. I like Steven Rinella because of who he is and how he lives his life. He hunts for food, then is gracious enough to show you how to prepare what you have hunted and or fished for. Some the episodes I have watched multiple times, mainly because they offer so much information and knowledge. He is what I would consider a true conservationist. Someone who lives and works in nature, God's gift, providing us with animals to eat.  Steven will then (which is important to me) show how to prepare and eat this wonderful bounty he has killed and or caught. He (Steven) is like a much, much, much softer side of a Ted Nugent and his own hunting series (worth watching if you can handle the ever abrasive Ted...)

On a fun side of my never ending cookbook hunt, I will sometimes find a recipe that I would never have thought of and or believed existed. Some of the examples that I have in my collection are; Opossum, Racoon, Squirrel, Sea Monster (yes I have a copy of this recipe), beaver, and todays find is, wait for it...

"Smoked Moose Nose"! Yep, never seen this recipe before. Can't wait to make it for Marg...



Bon Appetit

W








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