Pheasant Enchiladas with Green Sauce
I work on Gundog Central pretty much every single day, either approving ads or making little changes here and there to make the site better. It never feels like work because it's just a combination of thing I love ... Computers, Dogs, Hunting and Cooking. I don't always have time to sit down and pound out a lot of code for the site and adding new features can take weeks of programming and a lot of focus on my part. As often as not, I end up breaking something and don't end up catching it for a few days. It seems like the older I get, the harder it is for me to do, with my eye sight getting worse and arthritis in my hands. Doing these recipes allows me to contribute to the site, without written a lot of code or risk breaking the website. I'm not a chef and I don't really consider myself a cook, though I do enjoy cooking. I share these recipes, not so much as a how to, but in the hopes that inspires ideas of your own. Doing these recipes is a lot like programming, in that you're creating a set of instructions for someone to follow, that's basically all computer software is.
I have a little notepad I keep with food ideas, whenever something comes to me, I write it down. I have stuff that's been on my list for years, that I've just never got to, and other things that end up on there for a few days before I have to make them. When I decide that I want to make something, I'll generally spend a lot of time researching how it's done, especially if it's something I don't normally make. I try to make as much as I can from starch, just to figure out how it's done, but sometimes you just don't have time for all that. I generally write a rough draft recipe, with what ingredients I think I'll need or want to include. Then when I start cooking, I take LOTS of photos, mainly so I can go back and review what I did or what order I did it in. I'll also take notes on my phone, writing the recipe down as I'm cooking it. The first rough draft is just a starting point and often I'll change up what I'm doing in the middle of cooking based what I've tasted or see. I've even started out cooking one thing and changed it to something else in the middle of cooking.
About the Author : Jeff Davis
Visit authors website | View more articlesYou may think cooking and recipes don’t have much to do with a website dedicated to hunting dogs ... but really, why do we hunt? Sure, we enjoy watching our dogs work in the field and being outdoors, but ultimately, hunting is about survival and feeding our families. We might as well try to do it well. I'm not a chef and definitely no food authority ... but I do like to eat and enjoy cooking. After searching for people willing to share their recipes on Gundog Central, without much success, I decided to try to do a few on my own, with my wife Tami's help. The recipes I share here are things I like to eat and have made here at home. I've tried to include step-by-step instructions with each meal describing exactly how I did it, but my method may not be best, if you decide to try a recipe posted here, please use whatever technique you think works best, I'm simply sharing how I did it. You'll see a lot of recipes where I've tried to make things from starch, when I could have just used store bought ingredients, simply because I wanted to learn how something was done. My goal is to continually update these recipes as I learn new things and techniques. These are my attempts at creating good, home cooked food, that I would like to eat! If I'm sharing it here, my family and I enjoyed it and I believe you will too.
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