[Ameroth]

Wow. I just woke up and started reading this thread and all this talk about red meats and butchering has given me a severe appetite.

Going to ransack the freezer.

[TheGrandMom]

Originally Posted by Vyuru

Interesting, I haven't heard of that before, is that with ground meat or steaks?

And how did your neighbor not know how to butcher a deer? It should be about the same as a sheep, which my Dad and I used to do all the time after we got mad at the job the butcher did.

Yes, venison is a very lean meat. If you make a venison roast and throw a pork butt roast in with it and cook it (with seasonings of course, we're not cavemen!), it will come out juicy and have less of a gamey flavor. Most people do not like venison because of the "wild" or "gamey" flavor that it can have. My mother is like this so I tricked her and invited her over for dinner and gave her venison roast. She didn't even know it and was really mad at me afterwards because "I DO NOT LIKE VENISON!" For like the neck tenderlions that you make into steaks, you can wrap them in a very fatty bacon and that works well. I know my grandmother used to keep the drippings from roasts, steaks, and such and then use the drippings with venison steaks or ground venison. She'd also do 2/3's ground venison to 1/3 ground pork which was very yummy.

And yes Caspian, venison jerky is teh win! My kids were so bonkers for it that I could have made it every other day and we'd still run out.

As for that young lady that didn't know squat about butchering a deer, well its not too common knowledge here in the southeastern part of Wisconsin. If you go north, you'll find more ladies that are familiar with it though. Here its city/suburban and all the kooshy life that goes with it. As a child, I grew up helping butcher things/growing stuff but this young lady was all city. She was 19 yrs old and totally freaked out, I felt so sorry for her. LOL