I am cooking up Bambi

[Terry]

The best part of venison is the heart. Sliced and pan fried like chicken or calve's liver, Yum-m-my!

 

[Russ Hobbs]

Chopper, the best cuts cook like a good steak and are very tender, cuts like round steak are better crocked or cut in small pieces, floured and cooked brown with medium high heat and then if you don't eat it all out of the pan, thrown into the stew pot. (if you have time milk is excellent for tenderizing the meat. Another trick is to use the side of a small dish and use as a meat tenderizer by pounding both sides, I swear it works as well or better than a commercial tenderizer. Stan I've eaten many California grey squirrels and they tasted like deer to me, I'm one of those crazy people who enjoy game meat.
Russ

 

[GyroCFI]

we eat more wild game

we eat more wild game

we eat more wild game than store-bought meat. My family has a lot of hunters and fishermen and we eat lots and lots of game. the women know how to cook it too.

We have fish fry's several times each summer and it's usually accompanied by duck, rabbit, deer and if we can ever get one...pheasant. So far i've never had a bad piece of any of the meat. when we fry it, my in-laws from missouri bring us the same coating that's used in the Chick-fil-a restaraunts and it really is some good eating.

Haven't had squirrel though Stan... I would definitely try it though.

 

[choppergabor]

Thank you guys I really appreciate all the tips and tricks This is really a great group one can ask almost anything and get good knowledgeable answers. You guys Rock! I haven't had squirrels but we did have a culture eating rabbits. They truly look and taste like chicken legs!

 

[StanFoster]

Gabor- Here are the pictures you wanted of my mounted squirrel. That's the only one I didn't eat. In the background are bambi and a turkey tail , you gussed it, I ate them too! The buck above my fireplace isn't much of a trophy except that was my first deer with a bow. Stan

 

[choppergabor]

Wow neat! Ok now I believe you....(I did believe you before you posted these pics though) but now I doubly (did I just make that word up? Paul? jk ) believe you Stan. I guess I have to watch carefully when we go out dining together at Bensen Days make sure I order my food and that you are not good friends with either the server or the chef.... After all this info how could I trust you? LOL

 

[scottessex]

At Bensen days maybe we could get someone to show us how to cook up some gator tail! just a thought......

 

[choppergabor]

LOL Scott cooking it up is the easy part..... but capturing the damn thing......

 

[JRB549]

I have 301 recipes for cooking Deer, will offer it at BD to copy(dvd). The key to tender deer is allow it to age at temps between 38-45 degrees for up to 30 days before it goes into the freezer. The deer should be skinned, cleaned and cut up as fast as possible. I have one more shoulder roast I'll cook at BD and it will amaze ya how good aged deer is.

 

[StanFoster]

Gabor- Here is the gator I hand harpooned near Melbourne, Fl in 2003. My son Jeff got one also. He was still very weak from his operation, but our gator meat rebuilt him, ha. The turkey tail is all I didn't eat after shooting him with my muzzleloader. I have a pheasant on the wall also if you want me to "prove" it. Ha. Wild game is delicious. Stan

 

[StanFoster]

Gabor- Here is my ringneck pheasant that I have had since 1979. I shot it with a muzzleloader also. I love hunting, and will not hunt what I won't eat. But since it looks like I will eat anything, I hunt everything! Ha! The one thing I have always wanted to hunt was a wild boar and have his head mounted on the walll. Stan

 

[scottessex]

My wife does not care for the mounted animal heads in the house...
So here is our bambi door bell.

 

[dragonflyerthom]

LOL Scott cooking it up is the easy part..... but capturing the damn thing......

Yep They seem to be partial to their tails. They swim funny without them.

 

[choppergabor]

LOL you guys crack me up Oh man. PETA is going bananas reading this thread. I have unleashed a monster Love it!

 

[scottessex]

This says it all.....Yum!

 

[scottessex]

Hey Gabor, our roast turned out great! YUMMY!
I did add one can of cream of celery soup to the roast.
Now to just throw it over some nice egg noodles.

 

[choppergabor]

Scott seems as if you keep the game meat moist and let some strong but not dominating flavor soak into the very intense taste of the meat, you will end up with very tasty meal. My wife didn't touch it since I said it was Bambi. I had no problem eating the whole thing. I also told her the the fish fillets were cut out of Flipper.....see what happens.... of course I'll wait until after she prepared the whole meal....

 

[StanFoster]

Gabor- I hope Barbara never tries my squirrel meal. I would have to go shoot a bunch more. I am a simple eater. I like to fine cut a couple of white potatoes out of my garden and put them in my FryBaby in canola oil. The squirrel is simmered in water for an hour and a half, then dipped in pancake batter and fried in canola oil in a skillet . Talk about a dlecious simple meal. My mouth is watering now. Stan

 

[Resasi]

You two backwoods gourmets. I love smoking and jerking game meat and game fish.

My Grandmother and Grandfather went up to his farm in Kenya in the very early 1900's on an Ox- waggon, no refrigerators then, and she gave us her recipe for Biltong or what you guys call Jerky. Love that stuff.

Yes Stan, as kids my cousins and I hunted game and game birds up on the ranch, but always with the proviso that what we shot we ate.

As for game trophies, my favorite was the rhino horn door stop which my grandparents always called Harry's stop. Turned out that my grandmother who came from a fairly well to do family in Ireland went back for her first baby, my Dad Harrold. She came back with a Silver Cross pram for him when she returned. That it appears was a Rolls Royce of prams and used by royalty. There was a little boy who was employed to push my dad around on walks in this rather fine vehicle. One day he was out walking my dad when a Rhino, used to be quite a few around on the place in those days, decided to charge them. The kid took my dad and went up a tree so the pram sadly was attacked. Grandad was pretty upset, took his 400 express and went and found the Rhino who apparently was immediately identifiable by the pram wheel he had stuck on his horn. Neither the pram nor Rhino survived the incident. ( Nope don't think he was eaten.)

 

[StanFoster]

Leigh- That must be something living where animals could kill you easily! I would have a 460 Weatherby handy all the time. Stan