Fried Pheasant Fritters make a great meal or tasty snack

Editor's Note: This is a limited series featuring wild game recipes from local wild game chef Jeff Benda, author of the Wild Game Fish Cookbook. More content is available on his website, wildgameandfish.com, and Instagram. Some recipes are meant to arrive proudly at the dinner table. Others disappear somewhere between the skillet and the serving platter. These Fried Pheasant Fritters belong firmly in the second category, and they make especially good use of pheasant for an easy weeknight dinner. When I lift the first batch from the skillet, I tell my daughter Lucia she can have one while it s still hot enough to make her blow on every bite. This is generous parenting in theory. In practice, I m usually standing beside her eating one of my own. Then another. Eventually, my wife, Melissa, walks into the kitchen, looks at the shrinking pile, and reminds us that she made a salad and would appreciate having something left to serve with it. If you have pheasant