Breast Of Ptarmigan Recipe

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   Place ptarmigan breasts in slow cooker.

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   Add in minced onion, parsley, cream of mushroom soup, water, sherry and fresh sliced mushrooms.

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   Slow cook till tender.

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   Add in more water as needed.

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   Comments: Ptarmigan hunting is fun.

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   You never know what to expect from one trip to the next.

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   In the fall you tramp through colorful thickets of willow and dwarf birch, your dog nosing coveys of brown birds out of the brush while you mop your brow and wish you hadn't put on a sweater.

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   Late in September, after facing a strong, cool wind for several fruitless hrs, you top out on a rocky ridge and suddenly find yourself surrounded by several hundred stretch-necked, pinto-patterned ptarmigan.

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   You hang up your shotgun for five months, only to be tolled into the hills again by the bright blue days of March.

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    Warmly clad in parka and mukluks, you snowshoe across narrow alpine valleys following meandering trails of three-pronged ptarmigan tracks across the brilliant snow.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.

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