Dove Recipe?

A friend of mine did dove w/ a jalepeno slice, wrapped in bacon... Throw 'em on the grill, top with cheese of choice.

Best tailgate food I've ever had. And we kicked the crap outta Tech to boot.

Edit: Come to think of it, it actually might of been quail... Whatever, anything with bacon, jalepeno, and cheese is gonna be good.
 
Best recipe:
1. Dust with flour
2. Pan fry
3. Make cream gravy with drippings.

Simply fantastic - especially for a late breakfast with fried potatoes and homemade biscuits. Holy crap, I am literally starting to salivate thinking about it. My all-time favorite meal.
 
LazyEngineer, I was raised on fried dove with gravy in a cast iron skillet and it still ranks high in my all time favorite meals. My mom would sit under a shade tree in the pasture with her friend and a ice chest of beer and they would sometimes kill more doves than beers, but usually it was about a draw. Us guys would pick and clean and then mom would do her magic.

I prepare more dove these days on the pit stuffed with peppers and wrapped with bacon than I do any other way, but for me it ranks below the fried dove. Most people can't fathom just how good fried doves & peppered cream gravy can be until they try it. Add some chopped japs or hatch chiles for some added flavor and heat.
 
When you dress the dove keep the running gear (legs) attached so the bird is 1 piece. Marinate and/or season as you like, then stuff a jalapeno (i use a small whole pepper) in the cavity under the breast. Close the legs around it and wrap a bacon slice around the side of the dove, securing the whole thing together with a toothpick. Cook over hardwood coals.
 
Stan, I think Nick was being facetious...

The funny part about the "bacon / japs / wrapped" recipe is when people pull you in close, lean in on your ear & whisper it to you like it's the location to where Hoffa was poured into Giant's Stadium.

So, anyhow... here's my addition.

Take your birds & soak them for about a day or two in pineapple juice. I've also held them long term by freezing the birds in the pineapple juice.

This really adds a nice 'sweet' aspect to the spicy kick from the japs.

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The fried dove with gravy thing is the tits.

When I was a college freshman, we had an excellent hunting year (mostly because we blew off school to go hunting 3-4 times a week). By January, we had probably 200 dove in the freezer, along with a couple dozen ducks and geese. We had a Super Bowl party where we fried the hell out of all of it.

We had huge platters full of fried dove, duck breast strips, etc. Sat down, drank beer, and got our hands all greasy eating a crapload of fried birds, dipping 'em in gravy. It was a beautiful thing.

Of course then, I fried them pretty much whole (skinned 'em when I cleaned 'em). Now, I like to use the snips to cut along the backbone to open them up and butterfly them, THEN fry them. I breast out birds on occasion, but I also like nibbling on those little crispy legs and thighs. It's worth the extra time and effort to me.
 
I don't do emoticons. There used to be a great sig that called them the curb feelers of the internet.

I used to say that if you have the time to leave the landing and takeoff gear on then it wasn't much of a dove hunt, but I haven't had a really good dove hunt in a long time so I've been picking them for several years. I've been buying quail that didn't have to work for a living for several years and once you get used to them fat sissy birds it's hard to go back, but fried dove are worth doing.

I think you could probably bacon wrap possum testicles and have them taste just like anything else you might want to wrap in a jap and bacon. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

And even though I hit a milestone today, I'm not old enough to have invented the procedure. That was a clever jab, Stan.
 
My recipe is this:

1. Buy beer and steaks
2. Shoot doves
3. Let someone else clean them while you start a fire and drink said beer.
4. Drink more beer, cook steaks
5. Drink more beer, eat steaks
6. Give away doves to someone who likes them.
 
I didn't think it was legal to prepare dove any other way than wrapped in bacon around a jalapeno.
 
Let's be honest, dove isn't the filet mignon of the migratory game meals. The more you add the better.

Here's my take on dove shishkabobs:
-De-breast the dove (cut the breasts away from the breast bone, I don't even bother with the rest of the bird)
-Soak the dove breasts in buttermilk for at least six hours
-De-seed and halve fresh jalapenos
-Fill halved and de-seede jalapenos with cream cheese
-Place two dove breast on either side of stuffed jalapenos
-Wrap jalapeno and cream cheese filled dove halves with bacon
-String four or five bacon-wrapped dove halves on a skewer
-Grill to preferred done-ness

IMHO - Anthing wrapped in bacon and stuffed with jalapenos and cream cheese turns out pretty darn good
 
Ozzie,

The only thing I can think of to make that recipe sound better is to batter them and fry them like a chile relleno.
 
Dove Bombs

side of dove breast
Jap
onion
jack cheese
side of dove breast

Wrap it all in bacon and put a toothpick through it. The key that I do different than other people is to soak them in Tiger Sauce. The Tiger Sauce can be found at any store and is the key.
 
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