Episode 190: Chile Snow Goose Burgers and Problematic Snow Geese in North America

Wild Fish and Game Podcast

I created this recipe for Harvesting Nature’s 2024 Snow Goose Culinary Camp, which took place in Mound City, Missouri. My role there was camp cook, cooking instructor, and butchery instructor, but camp director Justin Townsend and I did get a chance to do a little hunting, too. I’ve got to say, we ran into quite a few birds.

We were lucky enough to harvest several geese, which allowed us to experiment in the kitchen. One of the dishes we made for guests and staff was these green chile snow goose burgers, made from ground snow goose breasts and legs, pork, and bacon.

While cooking them on the flat-top griddle outside, the snow geese continually streamed overhead, a cacophony of honks drifting down at all times.

In fact, anywhere you were in Mound City, you could look up and see endless giant V’s of snow geese streaming overhead, accompanied by constant honking. Millions of snow geese; what a place!

The burgers made for a filling and tasty lunch, just what everyone needed before heading back to the pit blinds in a nearby cornfield.

Any green chile burger is great, but made with wild snow goose? It’s like the perfect grass-fed beef burger with even more flavor.

Many people online have assured me that snow goose isn’t really worth eating and that the birds are nothing more than sky carp.

Sky carp? More like hamburger of the sky!

Read the written version of this recipe as prepared by Adam Berkelmans

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