Cooking Wild Game Recipes with Martha at Tambuti Wilderness, Namibia (Part III)

Martha, a true character has really shown that she is the master of replication!  I have really been stunned by her abilities to mirror my every move!  While we have been cooking this week.. Martha has been giving me the “NOD” that she is grasping everything… you know from being in so many kitchens over the years the “NOD” does not always imply that the procedures are comprehended 100%… What else was I to do but put Martha to the test!  I told her that tomorrow night she was going to have to mimic the recreated classic that I had prepared with her a few nights previously… The Gemsbok Wellington!

I was blown away!  Martha made me speechless… everything was perfectly seasoned, and yes, did simplify the steps and presentations for her (than what I would normally whip up) but none the less- Martha blew us all away with her perfection!

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Namibia Safari Photos. Game Drive through Tambuti Wilderness. Otavi, Namibia, Africa

Some great photos that just couldn’t get squeezed into all the blog posts

check them out…

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Cooking Wild Game Recipes with Martha (Part II)

Ben was getting hungry for lunch and I knew the only thing that would satisfy was a Namibian version of the famous Stray Dog!  Starting with Kudu sausage (a wild game antelope with big spiral horns..about 700 lb animal!) I added my standard onions, garlic and roasted red bell peppers and piled it high on a toasted bun.  A drizzle of olive oil and some nice basil chips set off the plate!

Keep reading to see the photos and other Tambuti creations!

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How to Dress (Clean) a Wild Game Animal in 30 minutes. Video of Gemsbuck and Chef David Gilbert

Our host leases rights to hunt on another farm about an hour away from Tambuti and mainly uses it for obtaining game meat for his guests and employees.  We drove over mid afternoon and within a few hours Larry and Ben had harvested two fine Oryx (Gemsbok) that would soon be skinned, quartered and hung in the dry storage cooler to feed Larry’s employees and any guests lucky enough to enjoy some of the finest kudu available.

Larry is very adamant about only doing “Conservation-minded hunting” which means he selects only old males that are past breeding age or old females that are no longer bearing calves.  This actually encourages the animals to breed more.

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Travel Information and Things to do in Etosha National Park.

Etosha is the largest national park in Namibia and covers over 22,000 square kilometers.  Filled with vast herds of Elephant, Oryx, Kudu, Zebra, Dik-Dik and just about every other type of antelope, Etosha is a veritable “buffet” of prey for Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Hyena and the caravan loads of camera-snapping touristas.

We entered the park at Fort Namuntoni, an old white-washed German colonial outpost that is now used as a visitor’s center, restaurant and gift shop.  “Uncle” Larry, my host at Tambuti, tells me that in 1904 a group of seven musicians went into a corner room at the fort to practice and drank themselves into a deep sleep.  Upon awaking they realized that the fort had been evacuated and they had been left behind with 3,000 screaming Herrero warriors outside the gates.  Talk about a hangover!  They somehow managed to hold the fort and prevented an African Alamo.

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