Jim... did you go to bed yet?
Saw what you said about the roast you do. I managed to scrape 5 decent roast out of that poor deer. Then I saw you mention neck roast. I used to do neck roast, then for some reason stopped doing them. they are tasty and fairly tender.
I had actually cut the neck meat out so I could do it. Well, after trimming the one half out I remembered why I stopped doing them.
Allot of trimming! I wish I had some pork sausage. The last one I did I stuffed it before tying (much easier than stuffing it after tying
) Anyway, I remembered it turned out great that way! So I got 6 roasts, the back straps, some stew meat and a bunch of grind. All in all about 43 lbs of useable meat. Not bad considering the shape it was in. Still P O'd about the tenderloins though.
TO... Some of us learned to do things like that because we want to know how. Others of us learn to it because we were broke and game was hunted out of necessity. If your broke you don't pay someone to cut it up.
I'm slower at it now than I was.... but I can skin, cut and cook almost anything! A good skill to have, taught my kids what I could. 2 of them even got jobs for a deer processor. My oldest worked for him for about 5 years until the MS got to the point he couldn't do it. My youngest for 4 years but he got a FT job and could do that and school too. I've even done a little hunting, I just don't like the weather or the hours for most hunting.... About bear, like most game you want to trim it well. "Deep Woods" bear is better than one that's been feeding out of dumps. Same with coons.
BigZ...Bear is good too! Hope you get one! Yep, not good to over cook venison. I try to keep it med. to med. rare.
I may can some of the stew meat though, just because it quick, easy, and tender when your ready to use it.
Guess that's all for now. Youngest son is having us over to his place tomorrow/today and has everything ready to go so I don't have to bring anything! Fri. We go to 2nd son's Fri and I'll do pies for then.
Night all!
Saw what you said about the roast you do. I managed to scrape 5 decent roast out of that poor deer. Then I saw you mention neck roast. I used to do neck roast, then for some reason stopped doing them. they are tasty and fairly tender.
Allot of trimming! I wish I had some pork sausage. The last one I did I stuffed it before tying (much easier than stuffing it after tying
TO... Some of us learned to do things like that because we want to know how. Others of us learn to it because we were broke and game was hunted out of necessity. If your broke you don't pay someone to cut it up.
BigZ...Bear is good too! Hope you get one! Yep, not good to over cook venison. I try to keep it med. to med. rare.
Guess that's all for now. Youngest son is having us over to his place tomorrow/today and has everything ready to go so I don't have to bring anything! Fri. We go to 2nd son's Fri and I'll do pies for then.
Night all!
