Duck Chili is a fast, delicious meal for busy nights

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. By the time fall settles into North Dakota, chili starts making sense again. The evenings cool down, football fills the weekends, hunting season arrives and a steaming bowl of something hearty becomes exactly what you want. I love making a big pot of this duck chili to share while tailgating outside the Fargodome before an NDSU Bison football game, when the air has that familiar autumn bite and something hot ladled into a bowl is particularly welcome. But you certainly don t need a Saturday kickoff to justify making it. This recipe was built for the other nights of the week, when work runs late, the kids have homework or practice and everyone asks what s for dinner at precisely the moment you realize you haven t thought about it. If you ha