Wild Cranberries & Spruce Grouse | Harvesting Dinner from the Forest

[@Terralynsparrow]

"We're just going to keep it simple" they say about their meal after hunting own meat, processing it, growing the potatoes, foraging for hours for berries, and then setting up an outdoor kitchen. 😂 You guys rock.

[@carlapierle8623]

🤣So true!

[@coventrywildeheart7108]

And don't forget the mushroom finds and bread baking.

[@adamyoung480]

Aloha. Obviously my belief in the KISS theory is way different than theirs. But hey, that’s why I watch these two laying concrete,when I would never even consider watching it otherwise.

[@Terralynsparrow]

@@coventrywildeheart7108 omg I realized that after I wrote it. There was so much involved hahahaha

[@crowellovecraft7289]

It's called montage but they indeed are awesome

[@lesleywatkins1172]

I had to laugh when Eric said that the grouse “flew off like a bird!” Those sandwiches looked yummy! 😊

[@kimsims9293]

😊me too !

[@lostinaveyron2279]

I love how simple foraged meals sound so restauranty 😂 ‘wild spatchcock grouse on homemade farmhouse bread with wild lingonberry sauce & mushroom gravy’. Sometimes I think half the people who choose a self sufficient lifestyle only do so for the food 😁🙌

[@susannemeyer9084]

Look at the work that goes into it. It's so worth it.

[@kimsims9293]

Sounds high dollar, and probably would be

[@elphaer]

Can confirm. Growing your own food cause it tastes better. Foraging because you can't find it in stores. Hunting because it's fresher and healthier than anything you can buy. And you control what goes into it

[@bflogal18]

I suggest adding an apple to the lingonberry sauce. Apples are loaded with pectin and will help turn it into a jam consistency.

[@zimtt1276]

What a beautiful omage on Canadian Thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving, my fellow Canucks.

[@mllee2008]

Happy Thanksgiving Canada, from Michigan!

[@renamaemcdonald2075]

We definitely celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada today. It was great ❤🦃❤

[@jackandpiper]

Happy Thanksgiving!🦃

[@renamaemcdonald2075]

@@jackandpiper Thank you!

[@rosiekerr8268]

We celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving here in Edinburgh! This video was perfect for the holiday! X

[@theresaegbuniwe5808]

I would love to see a full run down of your food storage/plan for the winter since you didn’t have a garden this year. The lingonberry sauce would go great with Swedish meatballs. Yum!!

[@sgrvtl7183]

They brought a lot of their canning and freezing (from last year) food from their other place.

[@kprairiesun]

Ooh, lingonberries are traditional on Swedish pancakes! Perfect combo! I lived in Lindsborg, Kansas known as Little Sweden and Swedish Pancakes with Lingonberries is a great treat!

[@laura55987]

I had a Swedish foreign exchange student when I was a senior in high school. Best thing ever! My love of Swedish Delicacies came from her especially lingonberries. So delicious

[@SweetOsoka]

I love sourdought waffles, greek yogurt or a cream cheese lingonberries and on top some dulce de leche😂 its like a cake and lingonberries give that nice tartnees. Mm yum!

[@angei8668]

As a Swede, I can say that it is completely true. We have it both on pancakes and in our oatmeal. As well as for meat dishes, such as meatballs, potatoes and other stews.

[@organologist]

We eat lingon with pretty much everything here in Sweden 🤣

[@dorothyallen3614]

Lingonberries syrup is so delicious on crepes ❤, so yummy with whipped creamy butter!

[@julliefillippi8155]

I am in denial that summer is over. Dinner looked amazing.

[@maryfair2500]

My stepfather was from Sweden and got very excited about lingonberries, he absolutely loved them.

[@gunneltorege9716]

I am from Sweden and We have it with meatballs to, you have to get lingonpickers tool

[@lenalyles2712]

I visited Sweden several times when I lived in Germany and I love lingonberries.

[@benjeanettebooth1800]

We LOVE the lingonberry jam from IKEA!

[@dorothyallen3614]

I love the syrup ❤

[@CrimeVid]

@@gunneltorege9716 I think that must be like a cranberry rake

[@pbwiseman]

Here in Newfoundland those lingonberries are commonly referred too as partridge berries. Very good for making jam.

[@davidoldford9536]

They are plentiful here in nl ,better tasting after first frost.

[@forrest_life23]

was also thinkng about jam 🥰

[@jonathandrummond8313]

@@davidoldford9536plus the fruit worm that lives in most of them leaves after frost.

[@darlenela5]

Ever since being introduced to lingonberry sauce at Ikea with Swedish meatballs, I now prefer lingonberry sauce at Thanksgiving.

[@kellybryson7754]

Thank you! IKEA meatballs and ligonbery!

[@John63556]

I am from Sweden. Lingonberry jam or raw-stirred lingonberries with sugar is a delicacy, especially for Swedish meatballs. I can also recommend lingonberries for fried mackerel. We eat lingonberry with the mackerel on the Swedish west coast! Lingonberrys are easy to preserve, just cook them with sugar and you can keep them in clean jars on a kitchen shelf👍🏻😀

[@dougnoonan5663]

Being from Alberta Canada we just celebrated Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham ,cabbage rolls… and pumpkin pie. You two are fantastic together.

[@dinahquillen9380]

Cabbage rolls for Thanksgiving, never had them but sounds great.

[@davidthibodeau5775]

Amazing

[@the_wholisticalchemist]

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Albertan!! (albeit a day late...lol)

[@annjones3672]

Hello fellow Albertan! I am way down in South Carolina! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@marianfrances4959]

😂 hi from southern Alberta!

[@maltesaurus8172]

I live on a small farm/homestead in northern Sweden and we have a similar climate as Alaska. Every year we pick 10-15 kg of Lingon. They are best after the first frost. My favorite way to eat them is to simply put some im a jar together with roughly 20% pf the berrys weight in sugar. Just let it sit and they will be conserved. The sugar will draw out the juice and it will become lika a jam. No heat, nothing. When they are boiled i find that they becom much more tart and less fresh. Other traditional way of conserving them is just to put them i a bucket and covering them with water. They will hold forna year. If you do so, the liquid becomes a way for storing other fruits such as pears/apples. During Christmas we eat a treat which is pears conserved in this water/lingon solution and it is great. These berries are literally amazing. In may, when the snow melts you can go in to the woods and still pick last years berries. They will have a Jelly like consistency but the taste will be very sweet. If you want recepeis google Rårörda lingon (sugar and berry mix with no heat) Vattlingon (the miracle bucket-berry preservation)

[@kprairiesun]

Cranberry sauce with turkey and dressing is so good!

[@jeanneamato8278]

It’s amazing how much I crave watching your show. My week isn’t the same if I miss it when it first shows up.

[@novathedog5743]

Today October 9 is our Thanksgiving in Canada. I dont have any family, so I ordered Chinese food. Love your channel. Stay safe

[@thewhitehorsefarm]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@annataylor3928]

Happy thanksgiving

[@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec1419]

All humans are related, Happy Thanksgiving fam!

[@annstewart1983]

The hits just keep on coming. You guys just keep getting better all the time. Love watching the hunt and picking berries, it’s the way we lived as I grew up. We had electricity but no indoor plumbing and we had a wood stove for heating and a wood cook stove. Boy those were good times. Thanks so much for sharing your lives and making ours better. In a world filled with so much hatred and anger, it’s so good to see people who live and love. I pray for your safety and your happiness. Till next time-God bless.

[@kirkmanley3164]

Nothin' like cranberry muffins in the cold of winter!!

[@mama_duck_on_the_lake7510]

I love that you guys put together your own recipes gourmet to your tastes and from your own ingredients. Unique and wonderful.

[@hillarywright7965]

Eric I grew up with sling shots. We use rocks! No need to use bullets. The whole time I'm thinking just pick up a rock. Try with different sizes. This brings back memories ❤

[@JohnDoe-ff2fc]

It's so nice to see someone brave enough to show the shooting and processing of game. Those are some pretty descent breast on those birds.

[@loriwaldo7200]

Lingonberries are my favorite winter fruit. I use them on Swedish crepes with 🎉whipped soft butter. I love them as my cranberry sauce with thanksgiving turkey. I enjoy them with stuffing and turkey gravy and on sandwiches of turkey, sausage and or ham. Definitely highly tasty. I also like lingonberries as a jam or syrup on pancakes 🥞. ❤

[@dorothyallen3614]

Absolutely agree with all you’ve expressed, lingonberries as an accompaniment to many foods is heavenly eating ❤🎉! Oh for a crepe with that butter and syrup 🥰

[@lisajersmyr8775]

Also from Sweden, I love your show! We eat the berries cold stirred with sugar, I keep them frozen and takes out just as much needed for dinner, just adding the sugar while the berries defrost, stir once in a while- done ✅ My mom used to serve (almost as a dessert) on special occasions, two tablespoons of berry sauce in a glas of milk, due to the amount of sugar it really was just special occasions 😂 but so yummy😊

[@DiT555]

Hello You can freeze lingonberries and use as ice cream toping, just as is they add tartness to the taste.. My mom used to do apple lingonberry preserve, best eaten with fresh bread and butter sandwich. Cheers from Canada

[@straubdavid9]

I used to be a hardcore berry-picker .... blue/huckle berries, blackberry, raspberry, wild black cherry, wild grapes, rose hips, teaberry, thimbleberry, ground raspberries etc etc. Where I live now, the most prevalent berry is blackberry, but if I wanted to travel a bit, I could get enough huckleberries to make it worth my while. I've only ever got one Spruce grouse, and that was in another state. I still have the feathers from it, that I use in making trout flies for fishing, as well as Ruffed grouse feathers. Those grouse sandwiches looked to die for👍🏻You two are definitely in your element .... utilizing what mother nature gives you to the max. All the best to you Eric & Arielle .... you two continue to hone your skills, making it almost easy .... almost!✌🏻

[@sarahaugustine4185]

Awesome sandwiches. Thanks for the recipe!

[@thewhatsup]

It is nice seeing you use nature for what it was meant for.

[@MaureenAdam-w9l]

Perfect timing for this video as it’s Canadian Thanksgiving today! 🇨🇦🦃🍁

[@justsilman]

I always watch you two right before bed and you always make me so hungry.

[@naomidonovan-perry2667]

Happy Thanksgiving very timely for your menu! Canadian Thanksgiving here. Looks yummy!

[@mariajosetrindadesimplicio7247]

Português

[@mariajosetrindadesimplicio7247]

Língua portuguesa

[@bonniesteel5236]

thank you for giving us down here in texas a view of daily life up in alaska.

[@dshogan6174]

No snow yet! So lucky! Have a great hunt!

[@Tatas1999]

I feel so calm watching you both. I could never do what y’all do, but next year I am going to plant a garden for the 1st time and try to start canning that produce to better feed my family. Watching you and a few other KZbinrs has given me the courage so thank you.

[@myboyzr2]

Now I want a thanksgiving sandwich! Another absolutely amazing share!

[@davemi00]

Normally off grid cooking is more fill time Yours is so much more than that and we really enjoy learning how you make it. Much appreciated.

[@contactsuzi7096]

I've always loved it when you get in the kitchen and one of the best parts is when you have a conversation about the food....the taste, the texture, the spices...the Wild Chef Show. Love it!

[@annjones3672]

That loaf of bread is a thing of beauty! Thank you for your wonderful videos.

[@SalLeeHolland]

I am not sure about Lingonberries, but cranberries have their own natural pectin, so you don't need to add any when canning it up. I make these sandwiches every year with turkey. So good. I don't add mustard though. I love when you always try new things. I eat Lingonberries every year also. I also love cloud berries. For Christmas I do a real ham with all the Swedish fixings. The ham is raw and soaked in a brine. Different than the ham you get in the stores. When you start a garden again try rutabaga, and potatoes. Boil them both and mash them like you would do mashed potatoes. Mix together and add heavy cream, butter and salt and pepper. You can boil them in chicken broth if you want to. I use a little more rutabagan than potatoes. Serve like you would mashed potato. You can also freeze any leftover, just thaw and heat back up.

[@Passioakka]

Gretetings from Sweden! You are so right, lingon contains natural pectin, more when they are not ripened (as many other berries). Rutabaga mash is delicious! Do you have any connection to Sweden due to your "Swedish" X-mas?

[@nancyfaircloth3224]

I wish you put out more videos. I wait and look forward to each one. Thank you, two, for sharing your life.

[@carolranigler6912]

I love how excited you both get for the simple things! Those sandwiches looked amazing! Arielle’s chuckles at Eric’ s prowess with slingshot was hilarious! You will be a pro in no time, Eric! The Scenery Colour is beautiful!!!!

[@Linda-nanny]

My absolute favorite You tubers!!! Loved the sandwich!!! Yum!

[@deanwhite6841]

Here in Newfoundland those berries are known as partridge berries

[@glennelson]

I know you can't please everybody but I wish we could see more of projects at the property that you're doing (or should be doing) in prep for winter --- chicken coop heating, root cellar prep, garden site layout and prep, sawmill cuts for gable end walls, etc. Last three episodes now with none of those items mentioned. I' ve subscribed since Oregon and love your videos so this is just my feedback.

[@puirYorick]

Try practising with pea gravel so you're not limited by the amount of purchased steel slingshot ammo. I know the ballistics will feel a bit different. Ultimately though, that should train your muscle memory to make automatic targeting better with any ammo. Good timing with the northern Thanksgiving menu. 👍🏼🥧🥪

[@thenomadichillbilly908]

I look forward to every one of your episodes! Thanks for all the time you spend.

[@pennykafai4645]

I absolutely adore lingonberries of course I don’t make it I purchase a delicious jar from the famous furniture store IKEA ! Thanks for inviting us to dinner even if we just had to imagine the taste and texture. Big love to you all ❤

[@janeconnors1807]

How wonderful to forage for your supper. What amazing sandwiches. We tend to hang our game birds for a week or so (check online) to develop the deep flavours. One of my favourite recipes is to brown birds all over for a few mins, remove from casserole dish. Add onions and sauté for a few mins till tender, add a good glug of white wine, stock, a few apples, sliced. Cook in oven on about 160c for an hour. Put casserole on top of hob on very low heat and stir in full fat crème fraîche. This should make a delicious sauce which complements the birds but doesn't overwhelm their flavour. When warmed through serve with creamy mash and braised red cabbage (cooked with apples, dash of vinegar, dollop of butter, mixed spice, raisins).

[@johnjones6116]

Lingonberry preserves are a real treat, even a mainstay of family life in all the scandanavian countries. Nice to see you carrying on the harvest.

[@heatherinsf]

My favorite is the Day After Thanksgiving turkey sandwich. Our family uses gravy instead of mayo, lots of cranberry sauce, turkey and the bread stuffing on sourdough bread. Since it’s just me now I often join a friend’s Thanksgiving dinner and don’t get leftovers, so budget allowing I will buy a turkey breast half and roast it over a pan of dressing and make a mini full dinner for myself. Our dressing has onions and celery, cooked ground pork, chopped apples, marjoram, a little cinnamon and whole allspice. It’s always fun to pick out the whole allspice as you eat the dressing and then count how many you have at the end of the meal, it was sort of a competition when my family was together. I miss that. I have shared the recipe with my friends and some of them make “Aunt Emma’s” dressing now too so I’m happy the tradition may live on once I’m gone. Turkey thighs are my favorite part of the turkey though, I wish they sold them at the butcher’s as In would just buy those if I could.

[@marilynnergord7993]

Really love your cooking videos. Please continue! My dad was a huge fan of lingonberry jam. I’m so envious but also celebrating the abundance you have.

[@glorialange6446]

Lingonberries... how fab! And pepper always soo cute

[@jackieperkins8514]

I think my favorite Thanksgiving dish is mashed potatoes with gravy and a little piece of turkey on the bite.😋

[@edge5617]

Eric, don’t forget the smoked paprika when cooking grouse. Just a sprinkle adds so much to the flavor of the bird.

[@lisagrafton2529]

You should make a cranberry jalapeno jelly/jam, to put over green onion/chive cream cheese. It's a fantastic cracker spread. I used canned whole berry cranberry sauce and about 5 jalapeno slices from a jar, I had accidently purchased when looking for banana peppers. I blended them together, then turned the mixture into a low sugar jam. It's absolutely delicious! Cranberry jam, made with raspberries and cranberries is also delicious on biscuits, toast, or pb&j sandwiches. It takes very little pectin, if any, because of their acid content. You may need to cook it down, if you don't use pectin.

[@lindag4484]

Lingonberries! Lots of them! Love them! You can use them fresh too --> Mashed/smashed, with sugar, finely diced celery, finely diced apple, and chopped walnuts. (and, if you have it, a wee bit of zested orange peel)

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

I really enjoyed this moment with you guys! Great video!

[@asdf7290]

For the first time ever my mouth started watering watching you put the sandwiches together. Good videoing!

[@martylaughery9138]

❤Thank you for another great video! This is some of the most entertaining and honest content on KZbin! You guys are amazing! You make everything you do interesting I have a whole different understanding of life in Alaska from learning from you. The new place is wonderful! You have already accomplished SOOO much there! Love the chickens, love Bo and Bandit, love Pepper, and love you guys!! Thank you for sharing your life with us!! ❤

[@TheFiredog3]

You guys are my Happy place, I’ve been watching too much of the conflict in Israel and getting too depressed, thank you.

[@joanfels6641]

A fresh cranberry sauce is ground berries, apple and orange with sugar to tastes. This is a family favorite. A dollop on your pumpkin pie with whipped cream if the bomb.

[@ksingleton101]

Thank You Both! This was what I needed after a day of watching what has happened in Israel.

[@katea8583]

“Whoever has a tomato out at Thanksgiving, hon?” 😊 This is why I enjoy watching you both so much!

[@AuntieKim1970]

Wow! For being such a little bird, they sure have big hearts! I absolutely love the heart! The best piece of meat ever, if you ask me. ❤❤

[@dlaitch]

Brings back some great memories of fall hunting in Nova Scotia. The ruffed grouse is commonly called a partridge here and there is nothing as flavorful when fried up in some butter ! Walking an old woods road in late afternoon where they search for pebbles for their craw would cause a near heart seizure when they would suddenly take off in a whirr right in front of you!. Never personally harvested cranberries but relatives used to annually go to their favorite bog for a years supply. Good to see you are taking advantage of all that Alaska has to offer the adventurous .👍👍👍🤩❤

[@amym8479]

Another awesome video.. foraging for dinner. Well done.

[@craftyink70]

Absolutely love your channel 🇬🇧❤️

[@APeopleOSRS]

Eric, if you're serious about slingshot hunting, you need to throw away the wrist rocket and upgrade to a flatband setup! I highly reccomend the "Hathcock Target Sniper" made by Bill Hayes. Great platform to learn how to shoot properly, and with double theraband gold bands you have more that enough power for hunting!

[@Blackhippie94]

I never plan todo anything you all do😂 but I love watching your videos with my wife and kiddo!

[@applepiebetty]

I love how you have all these natural foods growing by you. I wish I had realized what I had before getting old and living in an apartment housing that has no insight to seniors exercising and making food or pretty flowers to enhance our apts. They have the room, just no desire. Too bad because depression from feeling helpless and not worth living is the biggest reason for deaths in seniors. Families forget we're not gone yet, while their lives go to other places.

[@dorothyallen3614]

I absolutely agree about the seniors part, I’m feeling the same way 😢❤

[@mrburns91]

Lingonberry syrup is the best thing on anything sweet, on pancakes, on ice cream, on cakes. So good, and nutritious with anti-viral properties and good for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.

[@eightybananas4515]

As a plant based eater, I much rather see the foraging vs the hunting but alas, I applaud you guys for your Alaskan homestead skills.

[@c.rogers____]

You could make a holiday wreath for your door with the spruce and the berries!! :)

[@LyndaMargaret]

This is THE ONLY KZbin Channel that is watched together as a family on the big TV. You guys should have your own show. We are weekly watchers.

[@katiesan865]

Seriously nothing better than a bird with gravy and cranberry ♥️♥️ yum!!

[@bruceriley5981]

Absolute pure joy! Your vids are interesting and entertaining. My favorite channel and my favorite people. Please take time to sit down and just chat about your past present and future, like you did last year.

[@brendag2891]

I think you described Lingonberries right. I can buy the jam imported from Sweden here in Minneapolis. I've made cranberry sauce from scratch, the cranberries are bigger, harder, and more sour - tart, and a bit less flavor. Cranberries grow in bogs just east of us in Wisconsin.

[@prairiemeadowhomestead]

We live in Alberta Canada and have always picked low Bush cranberries. We use them for cranberry sauce for turkey, muffins, pancakes what ever you would use cranberries for. I new tasted can cranberry sauce from the store till I was an adult.

[@martieflagg4671]

Those sandwiches looked yummy! Doggies are beautiful!

[@zettlerpamela]

I don’t know that I can adequately express how much I enjoy your channel. You bring such joy and authenticity to us from your little corner of the world. Thank you for sharing it with us. I eagerly await the next video. God bless!❤

[@Amourjeux]

Lingonberries are a real staple here in Finland and Nordic countries! We use them for both savory and sweet. Jam of course, I prefer mine as no-cook/stirred, so raw berries and sugar stirred together until sugar melts, really fresh tasting! And try lingonberries with caramel or dulce de leche in dessert, works really well! Greetings from Finland, love your videos! :)

[@lizchatfield692]

Good to see you using almost all the Grouse .

[@staceyhazelett2397]

Foraging for dinner, I love watching it all come together, simply fantastic!

[@emilycardoso9722]

Not sure what made me happier, seeing that you all posted or seeing Bo. Nope sorry, Bo wins!

[@green_willowtree]

With the amount of bird hunting you both do, you should consider getting a German shorthaired pointer! ❤ Love the video!

[@jaklg7905]

That is what I have been saying. The dogs that they have now are pets, they need some working dogs.

[@green_willowtree]

@@jaklg7905 GSP’s are both! Phenomenal working dogs and ready to cuddle after a long day! Plus, they are gorgeous dogs too!

[@susannemeyer9084]

That was amazing. I'm so hungry right now. You had us all drooling. This was better than the food channels. I look forward to your show every wk. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@maryearly3259]

That was an awesome video. and a great looking hunt. i'm sure that with pratice you'll get better with your slingshot. Thank you of course for showing us Pepper! i'm glad to see you all doing so well. please be careful of course since winter blasts you guys pretty hard. Thank youf ro giving Pepper a cuddle and kiss on the head- it's so sweet! I'm always so glad to see a new video from you guys it's brightens my day a thousand fold. you two are absolutly amazing. Also now that you have the quazet hut done you can get it enclosed and have an awesome space to work in. i can hardly wait to videos from inside there. i'm glad you guys have a much larger property now and can really dig into so many wonderful projects. Be safe- KISSES TO YOU ALL AND PEPPER.

[@angelfly168]

I love that processing these animals is not only about food but research for you all.

[@robertfitchett3469]

Another awesome video. Great to see you trying your slingshot. It is difficult but keep practicing. Did you ever get the brakes looked at and fixed on the Polaris and what was the issues. Happy Thanksgiving and have a great week.👍

[@earlshaner4441]

Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures in life

[@lindseyhauk]

My favorite is always the stuffing. I am vegetarian so I don’t like it inside a turkey, but I love the casserole style version my grandma always made:)

[@kimglover6968]

Guys I just had neck surgery and you are what the Dr ordered so to speak. He said relax and that's what I'm doing. Thanks for taking us along and keeping my mind occupied.

[@suzyschore5014]

I love your cooking 🧑‍🍳 so adorable 🥰 ❤

[@Mjones8383]

You can take those berries and add sugar, orange juice, a splash of lemon juice then add the correct amounts of pectin for some of the best jelly you've ever eaten. Strain the seeds out also.

[@sallyhostetter2820]

Awesome sandwich. Low bush cranberries look great. ❤️

[@mg-dk8xr]

Watching the bird just stand there while you kept missing was pretty funny 😂

[@michaelmack1966]

Thanks for the demo! I much appreciate it ❤

[@phantomframe]

Lingonberries on crepes or Swedish pancakes are quite the yum, but I’d also have them on a poultry-centric sandwich the way you did. Mmmmm!

[@patriciaarango9128]

I just love your channel the cooking, planting and adventures or just plain life. Thanks for sharing ❤

[@Justice_The_Nutritionist]

Keep uploading these amazing videos. 👍🏻