Favorite Game bird Recipe

[dr.mooseknuckles]

I’ve been a sucker for overnight brine and smoking duck breast brushed with a little apple juice towards the end and served as an appetizer with fresh bread for a long time.

This is from some teal from the last hunt of the season a few weeks ago.
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I usually crock pot turkey to soften it up and do pot pies with it. Pheasants get braised with roast vegetables and fingerling potatoes because I always manage to overcook pheasant if I cook it any other way

What type of smoke are you rolling over those? Look really good. I would guess cherry or maple???

 

[northernalpine]

What type of smoke are you rolling over those? Look really good. I would guess cherry or maple???

Mesquite and maple or hickory and white oak are my two favorite combos. I don’t recall which one was used for the duck, we smoked about 218lbs of meat between that last week of duck season and Super Bowl weekend.

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