Let's see...game meat For baseball, it would be hotdogs Football - cheeseburger Hockey - hot Italian sausage Basketball - chili fries
I do tend to do this a bit.... The thread resurrection not the game meat buying. But honestly I’m not interested in that. Would rather shoot, dress, portion, eat since cooking for wild game has a need to be more attentive to it. Mostly because game meat is so lean, addition of fat(pork or beef?) has had good results with it. Butter is good too but also not to overcook it as well.
I concur, while I’ve not yet caught it myself, it really is quite good. Messy though. Mostly reading about it when I cooked it is the purging of the dirt in their gills is what makes others think it’s off tasting. Doing that in a bucket with salty water until the water is decently clean.
When I cook venison or bear roasts in the crock pot, I'll cut slits in the roast and stuff bacon strips into the slits. Adds a bit of fat content and some bacon flavor to the final product. As for personal preference on game meats, I would say moose, venison, and bear are at the top of the list but plenty of other game makes its way into the kitchen (gotta love squirrel stew in the crock pot). Have had the opportunity to try some bizarre game in other parts of the world...kangaroo and monkey are actually pretty good, as is dog. Cat is horrible. Venison sashimi (raw) is an acquired taste. Lizard over the campfire with some lemon grass is very good however bamboo bat is not. I'm sure there are more I can't remember.
There is a taste in some of the premade, commercial spice preparations that are commonly used for crawdads that I don't care for. I have had crawdads prepared with home made spice mixtures that were excellent!
I was a 4man on a project where we built a dam across the Nisqually river near here. The river was lousy with crawdads. They plugged all our dewatering pumps and everywhere you walked in the water was like walking on peanut shells. We raked them up by the 5 gal bucketful. We had two South Sea Island laborer brothers who filled buckets full every Friday for weekend parties. Whatever was not eaten on the weekend they brought back cooked for the crew on Monday. Over the course of the summer we ate a lot of mudbugs!
Perhaps I should clarify.. Taste wise.. not really impressive to me.. but far from the worst thing I've tasted. The amount of work and mess for so little meat.. Edit.. No suckin the head for me.. Nope. Now gimme a fat grey squirrel Used to cook up the legs like chicken wings as a teen. Oooh.. Like frog legs also. Have never gone gigging myself, but have enjoyed a big croaker or 3
Anyone an eel fan? I had an aunt & uncle that went for eels a lot.. I was young enough that I couldn't wrap my head around taking a bite. Still not sure that it'd be a "thing" in my house, but I'd try it.
Hard to beat an Indiana whitetail. They eat better than the cows do around here. One of the best thing I ever ate was some walleye. Chunk it up into cubes, boil it in salt water, and dip in garlic butter. Better than lobster.
Of all the animals ive hunted and harvested, moose, hands down was the best tasting, followed by elk, mullie and then whitetail. I've had a ton of wild duck, and you can keep that!! ( and farm raised duck is my all time fav meat..go figure) We eat a bit of grouse here too and its pretty good.
I can figure. Cottontail is my favorite. Love it but hate the store bought rabbit. Muskrat, and beaver (the kind that has the flat tail) are couple I didn't see mentioned. Both are very good. Wild bore I had at a game supper. It had a very slight BBQ flavor. Was that natural or how it was prepared? The sportsman clubs around here use to have wild game suppers. You got to taste a lot of different game. I haven't seen one in a long long time. I believe the Board of Health shut most of them down. Raccoon is one game meat I never liked no matter how it was prepared.
Our game feeds went out the window years ago as well. The one feed that hung in the longest was our turtle feed. It was shut down a few years back because we were serving wild turtle. (caught locally for generations, sustainably) For shame eh? Now the feed is back up and running. Serving farm raised turtle. No thanks.
