Deer Stew

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I brought in some deer stew into work today. There are several people that get excited about it, but a large number turn their nose about it. It always cracks me up when someone smells it in the crocpot, and then tries some, and tries to argue that it is not deer, but beef.

This morning it was rather chilly out, and I sent an email out at 7:13 to tell people I brought it in. 7:15 there were allready 5 bowls taken out. EVENTHOUGH, I had just put the vegatables in about an hour earlier and drove it to work, not plugged in. The meat was done, but the vegtables not so much so. Didn't stop them.

Current progress there is maybe 1/8th left of what I brought in and it is an hour until lunch time.

No one comments anymore that this isn't deer, I think they know me better than that now. The first guy said, "Everytime you bring it in I miss it, I am not going to miss it this time"
 
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Corn fed deer and sage fed deer do taste different........I have had both.

My opinion.......get the corn fed venison.

And the people that can't tell the difference between beef and venison just haven't had enough to compare. I could eat venison every day and never get tired of the taste. It is much easier to cook with then beef in my opinion.
 
IMHO, it has a lot to do with how you take care of the deer(meat) after you pull the trigger. here in TEXAS it's still warm, so you can't put a deer in your truck and drive 100 miles home before you clean it , I saw a truck with Okla. tags headed up the highway 100 miles from Okla - TEXAS line , just this weekend he had two deer in the bed and it was 73 deg.
 
I went to a "BYOM" (Bring Your Own Meat) cookout one time and took a package of four good sized elk rib eye steaks. I took out one for myself and casually said there were three more if anyone wanted one. I almost caused a riot! If I had known there would be that kind of a reaction I'd have brought several packages.

My friends in northern Arizona are both bow hunters and rifle hunters and between the two of them usually get at least 2 or 3 elk and 2 or 3 deer a year. They keep me well supplied with both. There is nothing better for making jerky, too, because it is so lean.
 
sbwertz said:
I went to a "BYOM" (Bring Your Own Meat) cookout one time and took a package of four good sized elk rib eye steaks. I took out one for myself and casually said there were three more if anyone wanted one. I almost caused a riot! If I had known there would be that kind of a reaction I'd have brought several packages.

My friends in northern Arizona are both bow hunters and rifle hunters and between the two of them usually get at least 2 or 3 elk and 2 or 3 deer a year. They keep me well supplied with both. There is nothing better for making jerky, too, because it is so lean.
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feel free to send some of that elk my way!
 
A friend of mine "harvests" deer with his Ford pickup.....

He drives home and goes past his normal exit on I81. He notes where all the deer are lying dead along the road. Then he eats supper and puts his old clothes on and drives the same route again. there are always one or two fresh ones and he stops and puts it in the back of his pickup. He told me once that he thinks the local game garden has his name on a stamp. He does this any time the large stand up freezer in his basement gets too empty looking. He will not pickup a deer unless it is in good condition. He has found them that didn't have a mark on them. He thinks they die of fright.
 
When I was about 10 years old I heard a story about a lady that went to a mexican wedding. They served a green chili she liked so much she had 2nds. When she found out the meat was burro she became sick and threw up. (I was told the story was true but was not there)
I remember thinking how stupid that was and have tried to keep an open mind about food, and later became a chef. I have kept an open mind about food except when it came to eating locust. A friend of mine, who is an Apache would pick them off the trees, pull off the head and crunch them. Sounded like he was eating pop corn. He challenged me to try one I remember thinking if John the Baptist did it so can I. Well I tried but my arm would not bend. There I stood with that but arms lenght away and I could not do it. Damon just laughted at me.
 
One of my friends at work just gave me two packages of moose burger, ans a moose roast. I can hardly wait to cook them up!

Scott.
 
Deer is OK

Where I lived in NY the deer were often "fed" the same feed given to cows, a local farmer had an automatic feeder set up for heifers and beefers in one of his fields and the deer kind of helped themselves. I always had a leaning toward the tenderloin chops and turned the rest into hamburger mixed with some really great sausage that one of my neighbors made for me with our own pork. That venison/pork combo was truely great.

I also learned that deer fat does not have great flavor so took pains to remove as much of that as I could before cooking - that was a tip in the old Herter's catalog and it really was true, especially if you got a deer that was a 'woods' deer that didn't have access to corn or cow feed.
 
Man today is 60 cents wings day at Buffalo Wild Wings, I am usually looking forward to that, but man you guys have my stomache growling...
 
A friend gave me some deer meat. Would someone be willing to post (or link to) a good deer stew recipe? I could do a google search, but I would rather get something known to be good. The last time I made deer stew was during a 3 day power failure when I had to clean out the freezer. I threw just about everything into it. Came out great, but I will never be able to recreate it.
 
kovalcik said:
A friend gave me some deer meat. Would someone be willing to post (or link to) a good deer stew recipe? I could do a google search, but I would rather get something known to be good. The last time I made deer stew was during a 3 day power failure when I had to clean out the freezer. I threw just about everything into it. Came out great, but I will never be able to recreate it.
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use it just like you would use beef - but add some additional fat or oil to accommodate the leanness of the venison.
 
When I was in CA, my uncle gave me a couple of packages of elk that he and his brother in law got up in Idaho... My uncle's brother in law was a master chef cooking game, I had some elk he had cooked and it nearly melted in your mouth... the ground elk I got made great spaghetti and the kids loved it... but I really screwed up cooking the steaks... don't know what I did, but a boot sole would have been more tender.. wound up just tossing that... BTW, I hate to cook but as a single dad had to do some and usually did a fair job of it... but as soon as my son got old enough to understand directions and the workings of the microwave, I pretty much quit cooking... I'm married to a fantastic cook now and eat very well, but don't have to fix it myself... matter of fact, I gained 30 lbs the first year we were married.
 
TellicoTurning said:
When I was in CA, my uncle gave me a couple of packages of elk that he and his brother in law got up in Idaho... My uncle's brother in law was a master chef cooking game, I had some elk he had cooked and it nearly melted in your mouth... the ground elk I got made great spaghetti and the kids loved it... but I really screwed up cooking the steaks... don't know what I did, but a boot sole would have been more tender.. wound up just tossing that... BTW, I hate to cook but as a single dad had to do some and usually did a fair job of it... but as soon as my son got old enough to understand directions and the workings of the microwave, I pretty much quit cooking... I'm married to a fantastic cook now and eat very well, but don't have to fix it myself... matter of fact, I gained 30 lbs the first year we were married.
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Sleep with one eye open during hog butcherin' season....:biggrin::biggrin:
 
TellicoTurning said:
When I was in CA, my uncle gave me a couple of packages of elk that he and his brother in law got up in Idaho... My uncle's brother in law was a master chef cooking game, I had some elk he had cooked and it nearly melted in your mouth... the ground elk I got made great spaghetti and the kids loved it... but I really screwed up cooking the steaks... don't know what I did, but a boot sole would have been more tender.. wound up just tossing that... BTW, I hate to cook but as a single dad had to do some and usually did a fair job of it... but as soon as my son got old enough to understand directions and the workings of the microwave, I pretty much quit cooking... I'm married to a fantastic cook now and eat very well, but don't have to fix it myself... matter of fact, I gained 30 lbs the first year we were married.
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Could of been what you didn't do --- some folks marinate wild meat like elk, etc for a few days before cooking - sometimes beef is more tender done like that also.
 
We do a basic stew, what veggies you like, all in the croc pot. Pre soak it of course. Another thing we do is make sloppy Doe's, we also make burger out of it (well father in law does), and put it in spaghetti. Basically anything with beef we will do with deer.
 
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