The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[sharron]

Got to get busy here, start working in a bit. Y'all have a great afternoon and a pleasant good night.

be safe

 

[N F C]

At the doc appointment yesterday... There was lots talked about... but after I read the instructions this morning.... she took me off All Diabetes meds....

With the instruction that if my Blood sugar went above x amount I was to go back on Metformin at a half dose.....

GOAL MET ..... Which is one of my goals for doing the Surgery.....

Woo Hoo.

deb

That's great news about the diabetes drugs Deb

 

[N F C]

Whew, home from the Elks tournament. There was a good turnout (about 36 players I think) and they had a good time. I'm pooped!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I had ground Bison from walmart, hubby BBQ'd it and it was so flavorful!

Yes! It is surprisingly tasty!

 

[N F C]

I like bison too! I usually only get it in burger form. The best I've ever had was at a family reunion. Dad brought a big roast of it and slow cooked it with some bbq sauce. Wow, that stuff just melted in your mouth

 

[Blooie]

Blooie funny that it’s hard to find there, here it’s in most of the stores and even Walmart! LOL and our regular grocery store. Usually like a pound in a little vacuum sealed square pack. Usually like $9 or $10. Of course that is ground bison and probably not the good stuff but still. It’s popular and “exotic” here I guess LOL some stores it’s like $12 for the same little pound. That said though, we also have an exotic/game meat specialty shop a couple hours away in NH that has all sorts of meats! It’s awesome. I bet they probably have bison but never looked. We only went there once and got some stuff to ship to my grandparents and some stuff for us. I would love to go back. The reason I bring this place up is that they may have better quality bison. But still, even the bison at the stores is very good. At least I think so. But you are right, tough to cook just right. I usually burn it LOL paranoid about safety. I dry out my scrambled eggs too and cook my fried eggs all the way through.

Oh, I can find it like that here.....but I don’t want it. After a friend got one hunting and we got 1/4 of the whole thing for helping him skin it out, nothing else comes close! We cut it up the way we wanted, and there was no comparison to the watered down pre-packaged stuff in stores! BTW, I was helping my dad skin all the game he brought home from the age of 12, plus what Ken I shot when we were hunting, and I’ve never known anything as difficult to skin as that one wild bison! The hide is tough, extremely heavy, and attached so tightly with so much connective tissue that after over an hour of wrestling with it and getting nowhere, we finally inserted some hooks, ran cables from the hooks to the frame on Joe’s Jeep, and he started pulling slowly while Ken, Jamie, Kim and I cut the connective tissue away. Gave us a lot more respect for the Native Americans who would stampede a herd over a jump, then had to carefully process all of them with primitive tools, wasting nothing and not piercing the hide! Incredible!

After our 1/4 was gone, we found a place up on the South Fork near Cody where we could buy it, and the guys from the three Masonic Lodges went together and bought enough for me to make 9 bison roasts for the annual Heart Mountain Rendezvous, an outdoor Masonic meeting. Guys from all over the state, and other states as well, were there, and went nuts over the meal. It was the first time I’d made it for that event, although I had made a roast or two for a couple of other Lodge meetings. I’d seared the meat, then made a ton of rich brown gravy, covered the meat, and set my countertop roaster to the lowest temp - just above warm. I started slow cooking around 5 pm and cooked it until 6 in the morning, turning the roasts over and over again to keep them in the gravy. Then I set it on warm and went to bed. When he brought the roaster down from Heart Mountain, I thought they’d stopped at Powell Lodge and cleaned the roaster. Nope, it looked that way because they were using rolls to sop up every bit of the gravy from the pan. At the next meeting I was presented with a “Buffalo Gal” t-shirt and I made the bison every year after that for 6 years. But the guy we used to get it from had one cow that tested positive for brucellosis, so that was the end of that.

Whew, home from the Elks tournament. There was a good turnout (about 36 players I think) and they had a good time. I'm pooped!

I can’t imagine putting in the work and the hours that you do, Debby! Glad I never filled out that application at the course!

I like bison too! I usually only get it in burger form. The best I've ever had was at a family reunion. Dad brought a big roast of it and slow cooked it with some bbq sauce. Wow, that stuff just melted in your mouth

Yep..everyone else can have the bison burger...give me a freezer full of big old bison roasts every time!!

 

[007Sean]

I like bison too! I usually only get it in burger form. The best I've ever had was at a family reunion. Dad brought a big roast of it and slow cooked it with some bbq sauce. Wow, that stuff just melted in your mouth

Now you know why we natives loved our buffalo.

 

[sharron]

morning everyone

 

[Blooie]

Morning sharron!

 

[N F C]

morning everyone

Good morning Sharron!