{"id":22,"date":"2020-09-11T22:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box2002.temp.domains\/~edibleou\/\/\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-05-20T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:36:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edibleoutdoorscook.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"About the Edible Outdoors Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Jason
Jason Thornton, The Edible Outdoors Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, I am a husband and a father to a beautiful family that deeply enjoys hunting, fishing, and gardening.\u00a0 I grew up hunting and fishing in south Louisiana and currently live in Lafayette, LA (the Sportsman’s Paradise).\u00a0 Our rich heritage has blended well with my outdoor activities and it was only natural for us to take the bounty given to us by the great outdoors and develop amazing meals that our friends and family enjoy.\u00a0

My hunting consists mainly of waterfowl and whitetail deer on both public and private land all over the state of Louisiana.\u00a0 I am also an avid turkey hunter and focus mainly in Louisiana.\u00a0 We own a modest deer camp in the middle of swampy southern Louisiana that you can find us at any time from October through February.\u00a0 It’s our home away from home.\u00a0 That being said, I still make it a point to travel out west to hunt our great public lands there.\u00a0 \u00a0I have hunted New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.\u00a0

Fishing endeavors mainly consist of freshwater and inshore fishing in Louisiana.\u00a0 \u00a0The targeted species are normally crappie (I call them sac-a-lait), bream, catfish, bass, flounder, speckled trout, and redfish.\u00a0 My family and I do try to make an annual fishing trip to target snapper, ling, mahi mahi, and amberjack.\u00a0 We have also been known to fill our freezers with blue point crabs and shrimp mere miles away from our home.

In my backyard, you can find several fruit trees ranging from blueberries to figs to persimmons (my personal favorite) to satsumas.\u00a0 \u00a0In the summer garden you will find, banana peppers (used for my banana pepper mustard), jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers.\u00a0 Our winter garden consists of cabbage, carrots, and turnips.

All of this leads to preparing this wonderful bounty in our kitchen.\u00a0 From fresh seafood to beautiful red meat harvested throughout the year, you can always rely on my wife and I feeding our friends and family from the bounty given to us by the land.\u00a0

Outside of my hobbies as an outdoors-man, I am the Loan Manager for the University of Louisiana Credit Union.\u00a0 My wife and I are both active in our church.\u00a0 I am a proud USMC veteran, not to mention a 3rd generation veteran.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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