Haven't cooked a deer heart for a long time but my girls saw on "Alaska the last frontier" that they ate a cow heart. So then asked me to get a deer heart for them. So I went out the other night and shot a doe. First time I've gone hunting since opening weekend, was good to get out. Nice sized doe for the freezer. I think I'll be turning the rest of the deer into hot dogs and summer sausage.
Heart is a muscle. Moose heart the only internal part I save. Taste good fried or I throw it in with the burger/sausage meat.
My hunting buddy always takes my hearts and livers, he loves them. Makes me take a bag along with me just to keep them for him after dressing them out.
Virtually no organ was safe around my dad. Deer, from best to worst: heart, brain, kidneys, liver, lungs.
Usually the lungs are shredded with my deer, not this one though. I made a terrible shot, deer was quartering away hard and I tried to sneak the arrow in right in front of the back leg. Hit her back in the leg, arrow logged in the back of the opposite front shoulder. Missed both lungs and heart but took out the liver. Hate when I do that, she only went about 75 yards but was still warm when I went back 3 hours later so she lived for a while.
Old photo putting the squeeze on two of my fuzzy warm old mousers. Always had a hunting dog or two around most of my life, but at heart I think I'm a cat person! Fried lungs? Somehow that just does not sound appealing, I'm going to visualize that all the time now when I have scrambled eggs!
mom makes a stauganoff with heart and tenderloin. those ussually come out together as they wont last when hanging like the rest of the meat. however if the heart is damaged we will ussually do something different with tenderloins.
