Spice up the holidays (or football watching) with Chile Con Queso. Real cheese, gluten-free, certifiably addictive.

Wii Controller Sugar Cookies with homemade gummy buttons.

Rustic dumplings made with spelt flour and filled with meat and onions – the meat can be beef, pork, even bear.

Homemade soft pretzels – you’ll never go back to store bought!

“Football Bites” ~~ a fun and easy twist on crackers, summer sausage, cheddar and ranch for game day!

It’s the Holy Grail of duck hunting: A wild ‘foie gras,’ a fatty, unctuous – and wild -duck liver. Sear it simply with balsamic vinegar.

A celebration of chanterelles – seared, pureed and made into chips, served with sous vide wild turkey and butternut squash.

Wild goose breast seared with truffle oil and served with sous vide pears.

Braised Rabbit with Olives & Preserved Lemon! And you can substitute chicken too.

My caveman hubby’s famous elk sausage.

Roasted Quail with Orange Tarragon Garlic Glaze. A very impressive dish that’s so easy…like roasting a chicken…just think small.

A raised game pie of pork, venison, pigeon and rabbit in a hot water pastry crust.

Dove or squab roulade with a saffron-corn sauce and baby popcorn – quite the fancy wild game dish.

Grilled wild doves Spanish style, with sage, rosemary and smoked paprika.

A wild game version of the Hunan classic, which was one of Chairman Mao’s favorite meals.

What beverage would you play this CHESS GAME with? Oh, and it can be YOURS!

It’s the beginning of deer season, which for me means homemade venison sausages, flavored with wild sage, juniper and gin.

Delicious and simply prepared venison. Pheasant from the oven.

Slow barbecued pheasant legs with a traditional Kansas City BBQ sauce. Who says wild game is just for winter?

My version of the French Laundry’s duck breast roulade wrapped in chard, with wild goose, scorzonera puree and duck demi-glace.

N64 Super Smash Bros Sugar Cookies

Xbox 360, N64, and PS2 Controller Cookies. The perfect cookies for a Video Game Night.