Kim
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Post by Kim on Jan 9, 2015 14:44:27 GMT -5
I have a lot of pork I need to use.
Thanks for the challenge.
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Post by bronte73 on Jan 9, 2015 16:20:49 GMT -5
Don't feel badly. A friend of mine gave me ground venison and it is still sitting in my freezer. I never grew up with hunters at all and I'm sort of puzzled as to what to do with it. I'm thinking i might make it into a meatloaf??? To top it off, my dh is slightly grossed out by "game" meat. He grew up in the country so I don't know what HIS excuse is! :giggle: Thanks for telling me that, Lambs! Maybe I will brown it up and put it away in batches to use in spaghetti sauce, shephards pie and for taco meat.  My friend has give me the venison sausage and I used that in a pasta bake thing. Everyone seemed to like that and not know the difference. If dh knows, he is grossed out for whatever reason. I had duck eggs once and used them to make an egg casserole thingy and he refused to eat it. The kids thought it was good. Obviously, we are not the type to live off the land or anything like that! lol |
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 9, 2015 16:31:06 GMT -5
I can find things for the ground meat... I make chili with it, shepherd's pie, tacos, spaghetti... the time I made meatloaf tho, I didn't prefer it. I didn't like the texture. Because venison is so lean, it doesn't typically stay 'together' so something has to be added (fat). I use bacon fat usually... for burgers and such... (I know, that defeats the purpose of lean mean... but you only need a bit and it's only for burgers, which we rarely have). I used bread crumbs and egg to make it hold in the meatloaf and it was just not a good texture, imho. Thanks for telling me that, Lambs! Maybe I will brown it up and put it away in batches to use in spaghetti sauce, shephards pie and for taco meat. My friend has give me the venison sausage and I used that in a pasta bake thing. Everyone seemed to like that and not know the difference. If dh knows, he is grossed out for whatever reason. I had duck eggs once and used them to make an egg casserole thingy and he refused to eat it. The kids thought it was good. Obviously, we are not the type to live off the land or anything like that! lol I like venison meatloaf personally. Actually we just had some the other day when we got access to some venison (unusual for us). We also have a recipe that we were told (and our family agrees) makes very good venison meatloaf. But it is moist. I prefer moist meatloaf. But some people like it drier. Everyone has different tastes. |
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Post by mamamunchkin on Jan 9, 2015 17:03:04 GMT -5
I can find things for the ground meat... I make chili with it, shepherd's pie, tacos, spaghetti... the time I made meatloaf tho, I didn't prefer it. I didn't like the texture. Because venison is so lean, it doesn't typically stay 'together' so something has to be added (fat). I use bacon fat usually... for burgers and such... (I know, that defeats the purpose of lean mean... but you only need a bit and it's only for burgers, which we rarely have). I used bread crumbs and egg to make it hold in the meatloaf and it was just not a good texture, imho. Thanks for telling me that, Lambs! Maybe I will brown it up and put it away in batches to use in spaghetti sauce, shephards pie and for taco meat. My friend has give me the venison sausage and I used that in a pasta bake thing. Everyone seemed to like that and not know the difference. If dh knows, he is grossed out for whatever reason. I had duck eggs once and used them to make an egg casserole thingy and he refused to eat it. The kids thought it was good. Obviously, we are not the type to live off the land or anything like that! lol You could also mix part beef and part venison to help offset the taste. |
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Laney
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Post by Laney on Jan 9, 2015 20:52:53 GMT -5
Hot dog!! That made me giggle. lol
I should probably do this. I'm so overrun with meat in the freezer that I'm annoyed. How awful does that sound. My daughter got a moose (636 lbs left us with a LOT of meat), my son got a deer and we also had our pig done (can't say we slaughtered him, lol). I open my freezer and panic... I don't even know what half of that meet IS, much less how to cook it. I'm SO spoiled. Sigh...
We have given some away (and continue to), but yeah... I need to figure out what to do with it.
Don't feel badly. A friend of mine gave me ground venison and it is still sitting in my freezer. I never grew up with hunters at all and I'm sort of puzzled as to what to do with it. I'm thinking i might make it into a meatloaf??? To top it off, my dh is slightly grossed out by "game" meat. He grew up in the country so I don't know what HIS excuse is! :giggle: Don't do meat loaf with it. I'm not a huge ground venison fan so I prefer to cover it. Chili, taco soup or spaghetti sauce something like that is probably going to be a meal you'd like better than meatloaf would be. |
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lambs
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Post by lambs on Jan 10, 2015 12:02:38 GMT -5
What is moose like? Closer to beef or venison? |
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My friend has give me the venison sausage and I used that in a pasta bake thing. Everyone seemed to like that and not know the difference. If dh knows, he is grossed out for whatever reason. I had duck eggs once and used them to make an egg casserole thingy and he refused to eat it. The kids thought it was good. Obviously, we are not the type to live off the land or anything like that! lol
