Gravy's Cooking Thread
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Borzak
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That's the way to go about it. I used to hunt a lot. But I now lease out some land and I take 1 backstrap for every deer killed. Also having nearly unlimited tags issued by the state as part of my management plan with a 5 month long season doesn't hurt.
I get a fair amount of stuff "donated" to me. I got a turtle this week and made turtle sauce picante over the weekend.
I mentioned it here before but in college we had a collection permit and killed deer from a high rack at night with a spotlight. We donated all the meat to the local food bank. We would donate 15-20 deer a week for 2-3 months out of the year. They finally stopped taking it saying it wasn't good to feed to the homeless.
Yeah, people spending thousands to hunt these damn things let's not give it to them for free. Crap like that really makes you not want to donate stuff.
I made fudge today and it didn't come out very well. Not sure what happened, but it really didn't have a sweet flavor to it. Maybe I mis measured. Been using the same recipe all my life.
I get a fair amount of stuff "donated" to me. I got a turtle this week and made turtle sauce picante over the weekend.
I mentioned it here before but in college we had a collection permit and killed deer from a high rack at night with a spotlight. We donated all the meat to the local food bank. We would donate 15-20 deer a week for 2-3 months out of the year. They finally stopped taking it saying it wasn't good to feed to the homeless.
Yeah, people spending thousands to hunt these damn things let's not give it to them for free. Crap like that really makes you not want to donate stuff.
I made fudge today and it didn't come out very well. Not sure what happened, but it really didn't have a sweet flavor to it. Maybe I mis measured. Been using the same recipe all my life.
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You ppl that got the big land and stuff, do you have like a slaughterhouse or shed or just hang the animal from a tree to gut it? or just in the kitchen? what do you do with the waste and stuff? ohh and the big ass bones, City boy, never gutted a live animal and all that, curious.
BrutulTM
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Deer we just hang up in a shed to skin/bone them. What's left when the meat's gone we just toss in an out of the way hole somewhere and let the coyotes and vultures take care of it. The cows I deliver on their hooves to the local butcher and they do everything. I have butchered a cow a couple times and it is way too much work.
Borzak
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For deer I hang from a tree and just leave the gut pile laying. When we started getting run over with hogs I just pick them up and hang them with the front loader and put them where I wanted. Hog gut piles are a great place to shoot more hogs who come back and eat it later that night.
Deer I just quarter them and then finish at the house. Depending on how many hogs I either quarter them or if I have several I take them to the local meat processing place and let them do it and also they mix it 50/50 with deer to make sausage.
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I think we're probably at 40% of our meat isn't from a grocery store. Mostly it's from splitting cows/pigs with my in-laws from farmers upstate, with a few dozen chickens from my families in the southern part of the state. I wish we got more produce from the farm/producer.
Joeboo
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My family owns a ton of woodland that is good for hunting (deer, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, duck, quail, etc) and I don't like to eat any of it. I guess I just don't like the flavor of wild animals, the small animals and fowl always taste gamey to me, and while deer isn't terrible its basically just a leaner, less flavorful beef so why bother? My dad and all my cousins and uncles do a ton of hunting down there every year and I don't touch any of the meat they bring back.
Give me good ranch-raised cattle or mass produced bird and I'm fine with it.
Give me good ranch-raised cattle or mass produced bird and I'm fine with it.
Soygen
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I like the ones where it's a gif for short attention spans and they pop open a thing of pillsbury rolls and just stuff them with cheese and shit.
I'd eat it, though.
chaos
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Yeah, I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen something good. These goddamn women are obsessed with making terrible food from canned biscuits.
I did see a recipe that made sort of taco appetizer bites with won ton wrappers and a muffin tin, I liked that idea.
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Being in the PNW I get access to a ton of fresh seafood, but most of my other proteins are from Costco. I'd estimate for a yearly average 1-2 meals a week are fresh seafood of some sort, with most meals being during whatever happens to be in season.
One of these days I plan on efforting a local farm to buy a whole cow or something, but every time I buy a chest freezer I end up converting it into a refrigerator to accommodate my homebrewing hobby. If I came home with ANOTHER chest freezer my wife just might kill me and keep my body in it. My house currently has 5 different refrigeration units in it with 4 of them being devoted to beer in some fashion (fermentation, cold-crashing, storage, dispensing). I'm not opposed to fresh game but I don't have time to take up hunting and don't really know many people who hunt, much less would be willing to split up some of their kills with me.
One of these days I plan on efforting a local farm to buy a whole cow or something, but every time I buy a chest freezer I end up converting it into a refrigerator to accommodate my homebrewing hobby. If I came home with ANOTHER chest freezer my wife just might kill me and keep my body in it. My house currently has 5 different refrigeration units in it with 4 of them being devoted to beer in some fashion (fermentation, cold-crashing, storage, dispensing). I'm not opposed to fresh game but I don't have time to take up hunting and don't really know many people who hunt, much less would be willing to split up some of their kills with me.
Borzak
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Just so much other foods you really can't get at the store. I can't hunt this year but lots of people are bringing me a few ducks each day that season is open to help me thru it. Fresh duck like teal is fantastic. Wrap each breast in bacon and cook for just a few minutes and you are good to go. Love it. Shrimp, crawfish, deer, etc...Not a big fan of wild turkey tho. Sandhill Cranes, there's a reason they are known as ribeyes in the sky and you get gigantic breast off each one. Not a fan of store bought chicken just because I lived in area for a long time where people had 20 acres of chicken houses. Not a fan of the smell.
One of the best foods I ever ate was antelope sausage mixed 50/50 with pork. Fantastic.
A lot of wild game does need to be mixed with something like pork or other meet with a good amount of fat on it since it's really lean.
One of the best foods I ever ate was antelope sausage mixed 50/50 with pork. Fantastic.
A lot of wild game does need to be mixed with something like pork or other meet with a good amount of fat on it since it's really lean.
BrutulTM
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Yeah, the only deer/elk meat that I appreciate getting from hunters is in sausage form. I will eat deer steaks if someone else cooks them but it's just a waste of good sausage material IMO. The worst cut of beef is better than any deer meat I've personally eaten so make sausage out of that shit.
The birds (grouse and pheasant mostly) I just slice and saute and then make kind of a rice and mushroom casserole out of them. Again chicken would be just as good or better but whatever. My favorite thing to get from hunters is wild salmon and halibut that they caught themselves. The seafood you get in Montana tends to be expensive and not that good so I always appreciate it when hunters bring me some of their catch from Alaska or wherever else they might have gone. I never turn down sausage though, especially the guys from Minnesota. We have 2 groups that come from Minnesota and bring sausage and because of that I believe that they know how to make a good sausage in Minnesota.
The birds (grouse and pheasant mostly) I just slice and saute and then make kind of a rice and mushroom casserole out of them. Again chicken would be just as good or better but whatever. My favorite thing to get from hunters is wild salmon and halibut that they caught themselves. The seafood you get in Montana tends to be expensive and not that good so I always appreciate it when hunters bring me some of their catch from Alaska or wherever else they might have gone. I never turn down sausage though, especially the guys from Minnesota. We have 2 groups that come from Minnesota and bring sausage and because of that I believe that they know how to make a good sausage in Minnesota.
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I went and picked up all the ingredients for the stew at Whole Foods just now and I'm about to put the pots/pans in the oven to season them.
I had to substitute a few items since I couldn't find what I needed at Whole Foods. Stone ground mustard for whole grain and tomato paste for tomato puree. I don't think this will make too big of a difference in the recipe. My other concern was the Suet... I got to the end and couldn't find it anywhere and asked someone, they took me over to the butcher and had them cut me some off fresh and for free. I was expecting something in a package, lol.
Anyways, excited to start the stew tomorrow.
EDIT: Also, I don't have vegetable oil so I'm going to season with Olive oil. I hope it still brings the flavor.
I had to substitute a few items since I couldn't find what I needed at Whole Foods. Stone ground mustard for whole grain and tomato paste for tomato puree. I don't think this will make too big of a difference in the recipe. My other concern was the Suet... I got to the end and couldn't find it anywhere and asked someone, they took me over to the butcher and had them cut me some off fresh and for free. I was expecting something in a package, lol.
Anyways, excited to start the stew tomorrow.
EDIT: Also, I don't have vegetable oil so I'm going to season with Olive oil. I hope it still brings the flavor.