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[Beer can]

I'm a bit of a red neck, 50% of our food storage is; hunted/fished, raised, grown in garden, foraged from wild. I always have friends say yuck at sushi, they've never tried it, just taste like super fresh, no fishy flavor, even those awesome pics of Kathy's of sashimi, you don't taste what you'd think as raw fishy, just super mild and fresh vegis and rice, so good. Even the sushi with roe, yuck they say, try it I say, doesn't taste like the smell of salmon egg sacks we use for fishing, just tastes fresh, I can't think of any other way of explaining it.
On my bucket list uni, never had it, would love to try it.
I save every fresh deer tongue I can get, goes great in pickled deer heart jars. So many people I know will eat deer heart, but not ever tongue, taste and texture the same....
Went in on a quarter of beef with some friends awhile ago, when I picked up mine a old guy stopped in for some burger, butcher gave him a whole box of hearts and tongues for free!! What happened to ours I asked buddies afterwards, they told him they didn't want them...What! I'd of took them. no liver either....They eat deer heart I know...
Was on the search in local grocery stores for beef tongue to pickle, no where, none, Walmart has it occasionally, super expensive...why, I bet the majority gets put in animal feed....
Buffalo I've never had, I've ate a lot of bear though, taste like beef also, just a little more coarser in texture, not tough, just different, super good. Super good in breakfast sausages also.
We have a Buffalo farm nearby, think I will buy a big roast next Christmas, price of beef prime rib roasts ain't much different anyway. They don't have a website, but do have a Facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/Cody-Shane-Acres-118836868448759/

 

[chickisoup]

morning everyone

good reading. Just jumping in with my 2 cents. Up here the local tribes produce and legally sell a couple of meats. The Potowatami have a large herd of Red Deer and a couple tribes as well as at least one or two private ranches raise and sell Beefalo. These are beef cattle (I believe they use Angus) crossed with buffalo. The primary reason being that they wind up with a very large, very lean beef animal. There are a couple organic restaurants in our state that have it on the menu. What I like is it is unnecessary to use any hormones, etc. to accomplish this. Personally, other than excellent flavor, I could find no difference from normal beef. Buffalo on the other hand, we buy from the tribes and cook ourselves and find it yummy. You just need to treat it gently as you would venison. We buy it because buffalo (as I mentioned before) is raised and produced totally chemical free (at least by the tribes and folks up here) which is important to us for several reasons. I also enjoy the flavor which we do not work to make it "pretend" to be beef, we enjoy it for what it is, just as we do with our other meats.

 

[chickadoodles]

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Buffalo is very lean and has to be cooked carefully ... I have had Burgers and Steaks. At restaurants... the burgers tended to be dry and the steaks on the tougher side.... I want to try Buffalo with someone cooking it that knows how.

I could not tell it from Beef...

deb
Thanks.

Maybe it's like dear then and you should grind it and add beef fat to it. And cook it in a crock pot with some beef broth and some other soups (like maybe cream of celery) with a little meat tenderizer in it. I'll bet that would be good.
I never cared for deer meat untill a lady cooked us a roast in her crock pot all day with soups and you could not tell it was deer it was the best roast I every had though.

 

[Alaskan]

Piggie fat you add piggie fat to any lean meat (venison, lean bear, buffalo) double

 

[perchie.girl]

Piggie fat

you add piggie fat to any lean meat (venison, lean bear, buffalo) double

Lardon......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardon

deb

 

[casportpony]

Piggie fat

you add piggie fat to any lean meat (venison, lean bear, buffalo) double

Lardon......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardon

deb

Yummy! We call it pig butter.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Gotta love eggs fried in bacon grease!



-Kathy

 

[Tumbling K]

Gotta love eggs fried in bacon grease!



-Kathy

other than boiling them, I didn't know there was any other way to cook them?

 

[FridayYet]

Any of you like the more "exotic" meat tacos? Like brain, cheek, or tongue?

-Kathy

yes ma'am......cabeza tacos...barbacoa tacos......lengua tacos!!!

hey, it's not Lent, I can stop in the morning and get some of those....

eta: another added benefit of geography.......lol

X 2. I'll try lots of things. Don't care for brains though.

Fermented duck egg for example. Or that rotten fish that is supposedly so disgusting that you aren't allowed to eat it on a plane or bus because the smell can make you throw up.

Lutefisk? SIL is Norwegian and his family eats it. Never tried it though.

 

[Tumbling K]

X 2. I'll try lots of things. Don't care for brains though.
Lutefisk? SIL is Norwegian and his family eats it. Never tried it though.

one of my favorite meals, while camping, is to take fresh cleaned sea trout, get the egg sac (roe), and mix it in with country scrambled hen eggs......slap it on a tortilla!!