Evenings Spent in a French-American Kitchen After Adventures Along the Sporting Road with Fast Horses, Paper Hulls and Silk Lines

This site started as a journal of sorts from a life lived outdoors in the Rocky Mountains and wherever the world takes us. In the wild, I find the thoughts of my mind are stilled.  Walking the land behind bird dogs, taking in the fall colors, sitting in a blind, riding a horse on the polo field or across acres of land in pursuit of the quarry—the world seems to freeze, your thoughts go away, and the harmony of it all become understandable.

And, oftentimes these trips afield result in the blessing of a bounty from the land, which is then brought back into the kitchen for a celebration with family and friends. Life is filled with crossroads, intersections of sorts.  When at such crossroads, I have usually chosen the road less traveled—adventures along the Sporting Road you might say—and it has made all of the difference. I hunt, I fish, I shoot and I cook. Each time we go on the Sporting Road to hunt, gather, fish or even shop, it’s an opportunity for a new adventure.

The recipes featured here are guaranteed to please both the professional chef and those that are new to the kitchen. This site is mostly for my daughter’s reference and those of my friends, in response to their asking for a recipe of something I made at a dinner party, etc.  No need to search the internet or all of your cookbooks for a better version of each recipe, I have already done that for you, as these are tested, tried and true favorites. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do and, even more so, we hope you have time to get out on the Sporting Road, making your own adventures. Or start a new adventure at home, perhaps in the kitchen, with some of our seed to fork, and wild game recipes. One of the main problems of our society today is not only that we have lost sense of portion control, but the fact that we have lost touch with how to prepare ranged meat, gardened vegetables, and wild game. My aim is to help in that regard as well, by featuring a variety of wild and fresh recipes complete with preparation instructions.

This site has no commercial purpose. I am not trying to sell you anything and we don’t accept guest posts, advertising, nor paid promotions—it is simply my collection of personal recipes here at the chateau, together with various articles, stories and sporting tips thrown in for good measure.

I am a well-educated professional, chef, author, polo player, foxhunter, upland and game hunter, fisherman and writer—who loves adventure in the field and in the kitchen. I am the collector of the stories behind those efforts, taken along our trips along the Sporting Road, and in life. I only take the time to write down those recipes that I have personally then cooked, and only when the result was something that I thought was the best version I had ever tasted and something worth knowing. These are mostly game to table recipes, as we try to eat clean and eat living foods, versus dead processed foods, here at the Chateau. We hope you enjoy reading our adventures and our collections of recipes.

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