If you process your own deer and age the meat correctly it's not Gamey one big.
Slicing the backstraps thin, we call those fly steaks. Don't need to do much to those, fry in butter with some onions, done!
You guys mix your burger with pork down there too? Venison burger is too lean, need to add fat.
whoa!View attachment 22843 I take the backstrap and make poppers like this....
Pound out the meat with a tenderiser, insert a fresh jalepeno stuffed with a garlic button and an onion wedge, then wrap in thick cut bacon and smoke it for 5 hours over hickory at 180 degrees!!
I'm hungry!For starters, I've been very blessed that the women in my life (wife and daughter) will eat or at least try anything I bring home, and we all like our meat "Texas Blue - Blood red and cold" (although I like it rarer than my wife).
I like to process my own deer, that way I know I’m getting my deer, and processed the way I like it.
When I lived in Michigan I could usually count on the weather to hang deer in garage for 1 to 2 weeks after skinning and removing backstraps.
Backstraps eaten that evening and the next.
Vacuum pack everything that goes into freezer.
Boned everything out, cut each loin into 3 pieces, Cut rear legs into steaks – Grill these very rare with a little salt, pepper and granulated garlic.
Another way I do steaks and sometimes heart is to pound thin and prepare as Jaeger Schnitzel.
Front shoulder and thickest neck, Some steaks from shoulder but usually corned (like corned beef)
Smaller neck sections for stew, soup, and sausage.
Heart is excellent smoked, and then thin sliced cold with cheese and crackers.
Liver is very good either grilled rare, sautéed with bacon and onions, or I’ve done an awesome Venison Liver Pâté several times [see below]. (I always got extra hearts and livers because the guy I hunted with would never try it – His loss, My gain)
Larger trim for stew meat.
Next larger trim for grind, we don’t like to add anything to our grind, personal preferance.
Less desirable trim for sausage.
Large bones – Cracked and simmered in water with root veggies, peppercorns and garlic for venison stock, I usually simmer for 6 hours, let sit overnight, remove scum that surfaces overnight and re-simmer again for another 4 to 6 hours before running through a sieve and freeze in quart bottles.
Liver Pâté
Ingredients:
1 lb – Liver, 1 Cup – Whole Milk, 1/2 Cup - Unsalted Butter, cut into pieces, 1 Tbsp - Olive Oil, 1 Cup - Onion, chopped, 2 Cloves - Garlic, minced, 2 Bay Leaves, 1/2 tsp - Dried Thyme, 1/2 tsp – Salt, 1/2 tsp - Black Pepper, freshly ground, 1/4 Cup – Brandy, Cream
Preparation:
Soak liver in milk 2 to 3 hours in refrigerator, Drain well, In large skillet, melt 4 tablespoons butter and 1 tbsp oil over medium-high heat, Add onions and cook until soft (about 3 minutes), Add garlic and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute), Add liver, bay leaves, thyme, salt and pepper and sauté until liver is browned on outside and slightly pink inside (about 5 minutes),
Add brandy and flambé, cooking until most of the liquid has evaporated, Discard the bay leaves and cool slightly, Purée liver mixture alternating with butter through a food processor - if pate is too thick or stiff add a little cream, Adjust seasoning if needed, Pack pate into a mold sprayed with cooking spray, Refrigerate until firm (at least 6-hours), Unmold on bed of lettuce and serve
Now that's utilizing the whole deer!!! Great job man!! It all sounds really good....well, maybe not the heart or liver for me though. Lol.For starters, I've been very blessed that the women in my life (wife and daughter) will eat or at least try anything I bring home, and we all like our meat "Texas Blue - Blood red and cold" (although I like it rarer than my wife).
I like to process my own deer, that way I know I’m getting my deer, and processed the way I like it.
When I lived in Michigan I could usually count on the weather to hang deer in garage for 1 to 2 weeks after skinning and removing backstraps.
Backstraps eaten that evening and the next.
Vacuum pack everything that goes into freezer.
Boned everything out, cut each loin into 3 pieces, Cut rear legs into steaks – Grill these very rare with a little salt, pepper and granulated garlic.
Another way I do steaks and sometimes heart is to pound thin and prepare as Jaeger Schnitzel.
Front shoulder and thickest neck, Some steaks from shoulder but usually corned (like corned beef)
Smaller neck sections for stew, soup, and sausage.
Heart is excellent smoked, and then thin sliced cold with cheese and crackers.
Liver is very good either grilled rare, sautéed with bacon and onions, or I’ve done an awesome Venison Liver Pâté several times [see below]. (I always got extra hearts and livers because the guy I hunted with would never try it – His loss, My gain)
Larger trim for stew meat.
Next larger trim for grind, we don’t like to add anything to our grind, personal preferance.
Less desirable trim for sausage.
Large bones – Cracked and simmered in water with root veggies, peppercorns and garlic for venison stock, I usually simmer for 6 hours, let sit overnight, remove scum that surfaces overnight and re-simmer again for another 4 to 6 hours before running through a sieve and freeze in quart bottles.
Liver Pâté
Ingredients:
1 lb – Liver, 1 Cup – Whole Milk, 1/2 Cup - Unsalted Butter, cut into pieces, 1 Tbsp - Olive Oil, 1 Cup - Onion, chopped, 2 Cloves - Garlic, minced, 2 Bay Leaves, 1/2 tsp - Dried Thyme, 1/2 tsp – Salt, 1/2 tsp - Black Pepper, freshly ground, 1/4 Cup – Brandy, Cream
Preparation:
Soak liver in milk 2 to 3 hours in refrigerator, Drain well, In large skillet, melt 4 tablespoons butter and 1 tbsp oil over medium-high heat, Add onions and cook until soft (about 3 minutes), Add garlic and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute), Add liver, bay leaves, thyme, salt and pepper and sauté until liver is browned on outside and slightly pink inside (about 5 minutes),
Add brandy and flambé, cooking until most of the liquid has evaporated, Discard the bay leaves and cool slightly, Purée liver mixture alternating with butter through a food processor - if pate is too thick or stiff add a little cream, Adjust seasoning if needed, Pack pate into a mold sprayed with cooking spray, Refrigerate until firm (at least 6-hours), Unmold on bed of lettuce and serve
That's why I get extra heart and liver every year...Give it a try it's not "awful" it's "offal" (HAHA) - sorry about that. Kidneys aren't bad either but you have to boil the piss out of them (oh stop). Actually, venison steak and kidney pie is quite good, but I don't rank it as highly as heart and liver.Now that's utilizing the whole deer!!! Great job man!! It all sounds really good....well, maybe not the heart or liver for me though. Lol.
I'm with you on the organ meat!I'll have to take your word for it buddy. Lol
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