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Grilled Quail and Charred Grapes
Quail are the perfect wild game for throwing over the barbecue – their natural tenderness and fattiness prevents them from getting overly dry. Serve these quail and charred grapes with other finger foods, such as olives, nuts, crostini with goat cheese, stuffed mushrooms, etc.
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Quail with Saffron Couscous
If you’re handy in the kitchen, this quail and saffron couscous recipe will take you no more than 30 minutes to have dinner ready on the table.
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Sage-stuffed Quail
To stuff quail, I recommend deboning them, which will make them easier to eat. Jacques Pépin has a helpful video on deboning quail on YouTube, although I kept the leg bones intact. This preparation will tack on more prep time, and can be quite tedious. If you go this route, debone quail before you start anything else – the day before, even. Otherwise, cook quail and the stuffing separately.
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Barbecued Peach-Jalapeno Quail
With peaches and warm weather in season, this sweet and spicy barbecued quail recipe is one to try this summer – along with a cold glass of sangria.
Quail and Waffles
This recipe follows classic fried chicken and waffles, but the spicy maple syrup is a nice surprise.
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Blackened Breakfast Quail over Cheesy Grits
I was trying to think of something quick I could cook myself for breakfast the other day, I know Shrimp and Grits are a southern classic, so I thought Id try to do a variation of that by cooking some Blackening Quail Breast and serving them over some Cheesy Grits. It's super quick to make, the grits only take five to six minutes to cook. If you time everything just right, you can have the quail and grits prepared, cooked and ready to eat in under ten minutes. One of my favorite meals to eat is Blackened Catfish fillets over Cheesy Grits. I like to cook it at home for lunch or dinner if I'm by myself, because they are so quick and easy to make, but super delicious and filling.
Pumpkin Pancakes with Candied Bacon and Fried Quail legs
I originally planned on posting a version of this recipe in October, two years ago, then again last year. I just haven't had the time to do so, hence the reason I'm now posting in January. I've made this several different times, each time just a little different. I love a big breakfast and this recipe makes a filling fall meal, with warm spice and lots of sugar! I served these Pumpkin Pancakes with a Maple Bourbon Butter, Spicy Candid Cacon and Fried Quail legs with a Tabasco Honey dipping sauce. You can garnish your pancakes with blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries and top the whole thing off with a sprinkle of powdered sugar or black walnuts.
Bob White Kabobs with Red Bulgur Pilaf
In my last recipe post, I talked about the time my family was stationed in Turkey and my experience living off-base. Eventually, housing on the nearby Air Force base did become available and we were able to move. I remember how drastically different living on base was compared to living off base. As a little kid, it seemed like a completely different world. The base was like a desert oasis, I remember it being very tropical like, with a lot of green palm trees growing everywhere. There were tons of Iguanas that would lay out, basking in the sun, along the culverts and ditches that lined the streets and I remember there being a lot of Tree Fogs. Living on base, my parents would let us walk to school, I really don't remember if we even attended school during the time we lived off-base.
Quail, Mushroom and Wild Rice Soup
I was never much of a soup person growing up, you couldn't pay me to eat it, it didn't matter what kind of soup it was. Fast forward 40 years and my how things have changed. I discovered Potato Soup several years ago, specifically, Zuppa Toscana soup from the Olive Garden. It's absolutely my favorite soup hands down! If you look through the recipes on this site, you'll see that I have two different version of that soup where I tried to recreate it at home with Pheasant. Give me a bowl of Potato soup and some bread, then just let me go to town!! Discovering Zuppa Toscana led me to trying different types of soup, like Loaded Potato Soup, Tomato Soup & Tortilla Soup, which my wife is in the kitchen making right now as I write this... now I love them all. Well, most of them any ways, there are still some soups that I wouldn't dare try, like Vegetable soup or Minestrone, I'm just not ready to try an all-vegetable based soup. When I told my wife I wanted to try to do a Mushroom and Rice soup, she turned her nose up at me and said she didn't think she'd like soup with rice in it. I guess we can all be kind of particular about our soups. Needless to say, I made the soup any way and she actually liked it!
Quail Saltimbocca
I have this herb garden in my backyard that's overrun with beautiful Basil. In the middle of it are these two lonely, but healthy sage plants. I was looking from something I could do with that sage and decided on making a Saltimbocca. If you're not familiar with a Saltimbocca, it's thin meat, generally veal, that's rolled up with Prosciutto and Sage, lightly fried then cooked in a pan sauce of white wine and butter. In my last recipe post, I made a Pheasant Saltimbocca, and it was delicious, but after finishing that recipe, there were still some things I wanted to try with it, so I decided to attempt a quail version of it. A classic southern recipe is Quail wrapped in bacon, and since Prosciuttos is a cousin to Bacon, I thought the pair would be great together in this recipe. Fruits generally also pairs well with Quail, so I added some sliced peaches and cook them with my wine sauce, then topped it off with some Mozzarella cheese! It turned out great, I just wish my Quail had been a little meatier.
Savory Quail and Wild Rice Casserole
Looking for something new and healthy to do with your Quail, that doesn't involve wrapping them in bacon or deep frying them? Admittedly, I do love bacon and southern fried Quail is one of my all time favorites, but I already eat too much of that stuff. This recipe was actually inspired by leftovers and pantry item we had at home and not because I needed to find less fried food to eat. I'd purchased some mushrooms and peppers for another recipe and didn't use them all. I didn't want them to go to waste or let them go bad, so I wanted to find something to do with them. This is one of the recipes I came up with. It's Quail and Wild Rice Casserole.
Southern Smothered Quail on Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits with Fried Quail Eggs
Growing up in the Air Force, we moved around a lot. Never in any one place more than a few years. Needless to say, none of those places ever felt like home. The only place that did, was my Grandparents house in Tennessee. As a kid, we'd always came back to Tennessee for vacation. My Grandparents owned a large farm with lots of acreage for a young kid to explore. My parents would just turn me lose on the farm, armed with my Red Rider BB gun and I'd be gone all day. My Grandmother would be sure to remind me not to kill her blue birds. I remember being startled to death more than a few times, by coveys of quail taking flight as I spooked them from their hiding place, usually on a fence line. It's too bad you don't see birds like that in Tennessee that much anymore, at least not around here.
Cast Iron Quail with Apple Dressing and Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
Anyone ever watched Game of Thrones on HBO? It's a medieval type show about Kings, Dragons and treachery for the throne and rule of the kingdom. The TV series is based on a series of books called the "Song of Fire and Ice" by author George R R Martin. I had already read all the books, at least the ones that have been published to date, long before this show aired and loved them. I was excited to see they were doing a show for it and I'm not really one to get too engrossed in TV shows. Other than the last couple of seasons being a disappointment, I'd still recommend it to anyone. I had read all of J R R Tolkien's books, the Hobbit, then the Lord of the Rings in middle school as a kid ... . Those are my favorite books of all time and they really cemented my interest in reading books in this fantasy setting.
Saviory Quail Meat Pie
Tami and I have been cooking quite a bit during the Coronavirus quarantine, you'd think with everything shut down that I'd be able to catch up on projects ... but am as far behind as ever. Take this meal we prepared back in March for PI day that I'm just now getting around to posting. Sometimes, we'll will cook themed meals for TV Shows such as Game of Thrones, NFL playoffs and other various things. The day before, while driving home from Walmart, she asked me what I wanted to cook for PI day. March 14th or 3/14, is known as Pi day around the world, for the mathematical constant 3.14 blah blah blah. I was all like, "I don't want to cooking anything", to which she replied, "But last year we made homemade Chicken Pot Pies and a Blackberry Pie", all while making a sad face, like she was disappointed that I didn't want to do anything this year. Finally, I said, "FINE! If I'm going to have to make a pie again this year, I want to do meat pie, but not any meat pie, but the one from that nursery rhyme where the birds fly out of it." The rhyme is called the "Song of Sixpence" and it went something like "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and Twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, wasn't that a dainty dish, to set before a king?". She finally agreed that we could try to make my bird meat pie, so we brainstormed ideas in the car as we headed back to the grocery store to pick up more supplies. This is what we came up with ... This Roasted Quail Meat Pie with a Savory New Potato & Mushroom Stuffing and an "Out of this World" Blackberry Pie. After we sat down to eat, I asked Tami what she thought about the meat pies, on scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best. She said definitely a 10! I'd take that with a grain of salt, since she's my wife and probably feels obligated to say such things. However, I did catch her eating the leftovers for breakfast this morning, they couldn't have been that bad, right? Our birds may not have sung after, but our bellies and mouths sure did!! #NationalPiDay #EinsteinsBirthday #Piday #MeatPie #QuailPie #BlackberryPie #OutofthisWorld #GundogCentral #gamebirds #hunting #birdhunting
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Smoked Quail and Mushroom Ragu
I think Tami and I were watching the Food Network one night, a new show was on called Guy Fieri's Tournament of Champions. On the show, 16 chefs competed head to head in a bracket type playoff to see who the best chef was. Guy would spin a wheel to determine what the chefs had to use when cooking their meals. The night we were watching, one of the random ingredients turned out to be Quail and one of the Chef's decided to make a Quail Ragu. I was like, "Tami we have to try that!!". Now, I couldn't tell you how they made their Quail Ragu, but the next weekend, Tami and I were in the kitchen, trying to figure it out by making our own version it.
