You got to love it when the college kid comes home....

I love pulling a fast one on Son #2.
Grumpy gets me up because he wants breakfast this morning.
He wasnt real impressed when I pulled a sweet italian link
out of the freezer and started to defrost it in microwave.
His comment was, you dont have enough, so I will pass:laugh:
So after he left the room, I split the casing and scraped out
the contents. Gee, instant ground sausage.
Put it in with the gravy mix and everything tastes much better.
After he ate THREE biscuits and gravy, I told him the truth.
It didnt seem to matter when his stomach is FULL

Had some what same thing happen with my wife. Whenever I would hunt and get a deer I would save the heart, so had 3 or 4 in the freezer. Came home one day, wife gone, so decided to make venison stew using those hearts. She and the kids came home a few hours later, said "smells good ". About a week later she went into the freezer for something and noticed the hearts gone, asked me where they were, I said, " That stew you thought was so good" Oh my god, she told me that I am never keeping hearts in her freezer again. Until she knew what was in the stew it was ok.

[size=3]I'm not a hunter but LOVE venison. Our daughter loves it. Wifey, if you mix or use it in stew, she's ok with it. One day while our son was still living at home, we had venison stew. Son was chowing down on the stew. Asked if he liked it. "heck yeah" was his answer. Told him it was venison. Immediatly pushed the plate away! I'm not eating that!!

The plate didn't stop moving on the table! Daughter stabbed the bowl with her fork and continued to slide it in front of her! Then she just continued eating!! Waste not want not!!![/SIZE]

We sometimes have creamed squirrel over biscuits for breakfast. I served it once when my children came to visit from Maryland. They wanted to know if I had a money problem.

River Doc

[QUOTE=riverdoc;216910]We sometimes have creamed squirrel over biscuits for breakfast. I served it once when my children came to visit from Maryland. They wanted to know if I had a money problem.

River Doc[/QUOTE]

Now this is funny, the stuff kids will come up with.

[size=3]​Should of told them yeah we're having money problems... donations always accepted...[/SIZE]

I have a hard time getting the family to eat more than one meal from a deer. I can get it by them once as breaded fried tenderloins but that's about it. so a few years ago I started making jerky. we grind it up being careful to get all of the tendon and silver skin out. We have a jerky gun that works like a caulking gun. season it,(lem products have some great season cures . lots of different flavors.) squirt it out and dehydrate it . The grand kids will fight over it.

I have never shot a deer , never really tried but have had several given to me to butcher. always earn a quarter by processing it .

I took a bag of jerky to work a few years ago and now have no trouble getting last seasons left overs from every ones freezers to make jerky .

made about 60 lbs this year.

Now Im too busy making jerky to deer hunt

[size=3]Might have to look into one of those "caulk guns". Then I guess I'd have to get a dehydrator. This sounds like it's gonna get expensive![/SIZE]

my dehydrator is a natures harvest . had it so long I don't remember what I gave for it. Knowing me it wasn't all that bad. its the round plastic one you can buy additional trays for. (works good for drying fruit too) the jerky gun was about 20 bucks from l.e.m. products.

some of the steel one are real expensive.

[size=3]Got a few on Ebay that I'm looking at. We'll see what happens.[/SIZE]

Yesterday we had home made minestroni soup with moose instead of beef. I was impressed!! The moose tasted exactly like beef but it is a lot healthier!

We also use ground bison instead of ground beef for meatloafs, etc and the taste is excellent...,

[QUOTE=bongobobny;217048]Yesterday we had home made minestroni soup with moose instead of beef. I was impressed!! The moose tasted exactly like beef but it is a lot healthier!

We also use ground bison instead of ground beef for meatloafs, etc and the taste is excellent...,[/QUOTE]

Deer jerky for me and the hounds. When they hear me open a cold beer, they know it is raw peanuts and jerky time on the back porch. Catfish for me and momma. My son from California came to visit asked of we had a sushi restaurant. Well, I said, we can go fishing tomorrow and catch a mess of catfish then you can make your sushi... but I don't think you will like it that way.

You know they say that Arkansas has the only zoo where there is a recipe under the name of each animal.

Keep it rubber down, RiverDoc

I've never had alligator but would like to try it sometime. Sounds like a good idea to eat something that tries to eat you!

Deer jerky is good! I also like catfish. I've had squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, and a few other critters. Never wanted to try rattlesnake. Sushi is ok as far as eating bait goes...

Here is a tip for you guys, Try it and see the difference?

Folks just don't care for the gamy taste of wild meat.

Here is what i do, I take along a gallon of salt water and when i get the animalback to my truck i wash out the body cavity.

When i get it home i skin and quarter it and drop it into a thirty gal. plastic garbage can,pour a carton of table salt in there and fill it with water.

I soak it for at least 24 hrs, if i leave it longer than that i stick a hose in the bucket and flush it out and dump a fresh carton of salt in there.

Here is the trick, this method removes the excess blood and floats all the hair leftover after skinning to the surface, wich is floated out when you flush with the hose.

The result is meat with no gamy taste.

It even works with a stinkin old Antelope even when it has been run allot.

Think about it? When you hang meat, What are you really doing?

Rotting it?

The salt is preserving and cleaning it.

I bet if you try it once you will always do it?

my wife is from Grover Col . been there a few times . antelope all over the place in large herds . She said they were like carp, no one would eat them cause they taste really bad. I would bet there is a way !
If cooked and cleaned right a carp is good eating. Bet the same way for antelope.
there are poor hungry people all over the world that could be saved by the things others dismiss as not fit for consumption.

as for alligator, well if he gets close to me he's dinner. had my first gator burger couple of weeks ago in new Orleans. good stuff.

as they say IT ALL TASTES LIKE CHICKEN.

[QUOTE=bongobobny;217242]I've never had alligator but would like to try it sometime. Sounds like a good idea to eat something that tries to eat you!

Deer jerky is good! I also like catfish. I've had squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, and a few other critters. Never wanted to try rattlesnake. Sushi is ok as far as eating bait goes...[/QUOTE]

Alligator is delicious. Louisiana is the place to go for alligator. Those Cajuns know how to cook! I fire up the Enterprise and every so often head down to Lafayette for some Cajun food and dancing. Go to Monroe for Mud Puppies (Crawfish).

Oh, don't go in August, because the heat + humidity is a killer.

RiverDoc

I have eaten gator about every way they cook it and love it. Creole and cajun food is about my favorite .
ate at warehouse one in Monroe la great food. cheezey grits were awesome !

I think way too much about food:xzqxz:

In Wyoming Antelope may be more numerous than neighbors.

[QUOTE=tom w;217258]I have eaten gator about every way they cook it and love it. Creole and cajun food is about my favorite .
ate at warehouse one in Monroe la great food. cheezey grits were awesome !

I think way too much about food:xzqxz:[/QUOTE]

You fired me up talking about cheezey grits. WRT thinking about food. I have tried every diet known to man and finally got smart and stopped all that madness. I went to Weight-watchers, for example, and after weighing in I would reward myself by belting out a pizza at Pizza Hut. The funny thing is I started losing weight when I stopped trying to diet. Go figure.

RiverDoc

[QUOTE=riverdoc;217249]Alligator is delicious. Louisiana is the place to go for alligator. Those Cajuns know how to cook! I fire up the Enterprise and every so often head down to Lafayette for some Cajun food and dancing. Go to Monroe for Mud Puppies (Crawfish). Oh, don't go in August, because the heat + humidity is a killer.

RiverDoc[/QUOTE]

went in September last year. not crowded. still a little warm but not bad. rooms were easy to get and the price was better. I will go to gator land every time I get a chance.

the gulf coast is my place to get away.