Chef Folse starts off this holiday special with Roasted Wild Boar Ham. It’s stuffed with garlic and onions, browned to perfection and finished in a hot oven with root vegetables. Then at the Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, Chef Folse prepares 'Possum and Taters. This surprisingly delicate white meat is beautifully browned, then roasted with sweet potatoes, brown sugar, bacon and cayenne. He concludes the evening with a very traditional Christmas Roasted Speckle-bellied Goose. The bird is generously seasoned with salt and pepper, stuffed with vegetables and smoked meats, then braised in red wine before finishing in the oven.
101 Creole-Braised Wood Duck/Grande View Lodge
102 Cajun-Fried Alligator Tail/LaBranche
103 Pan Fried Quail/Covey Rise
104 Louisiana Mallards/Canard Sauvage
105 Medallions of Venison/Giles Island
107 Spit Roasted Squab/Destrehan Plantation
108 Smothered Rabbit with Mushrooms/New Hope Plantation
109 Roasted Wild Turkey with Stuffing/Giles Island
110 Frog Legs Provencale/Henderson Swamp
111 Goose Cacciatore/White Lake Lodge
112 Turtle Soup/Commander’s Palace
113 Grilled Beaver/Lewis & Clark
114 Dove Breast Delight/The Duck Camp (Buckley Kessler – White Castle)
115 Roast of Wild Boar/Cochon de Lait Festival
116 Speckle Belly Goose Casserole/Oak Grove Hunting Club
117 Rattlesnake/Wildewood Resort
118 Baked Goose/Building a Pirogue
119 Smothered Squirrel/Lockport Boat Museum
121 Venison Sauce Piquant/Hunting Castles & Camps
122 Smoked Duck Ham/Decoys & Carvers
123 Woodcock & Snipe Pate/Grand Slam Hunting
124 Roasted Leg of Venison Bayou Blue/Knives
125 Roasted Pheasant with Red Cabbage/Camouflage Clothing