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A friend gave us a whole lot of VEnison. Anyone know how to cook teh backstrap? I guess that is what we are having for dinner tomorow. Also we got a hole lot of sausage. ANy ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

Can't even remember the last time I had venison.. Miss it

mark there is venison in penang :S

The Kizzy wrote:A friend gave us a whole lot of VEnison. Anyone know how to cook teh backstrap? I guess that is what we are having for dinner tomorow. Also we got a hole lot of sausage. ANy ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

My old boss used to marinate Elk backstrap, and then BBQ it.

We don't have a grill. Where is Gaazy when you need him?

Roast venison backstraps just like any beef roast. Marinade and slow cook, use onions to take away the game like taste.

Its the steaks, Minrott.

Steaks I usually country-fry or broil. I always use fresh garlic or onion in the marinade to take out some of the gamey taste like Minrott said though.

A broiler is just like an upside down grill.. you can cook anything in that the same as you would a grill. Just have the rack on the very top, about 4 inches from the meat. Depending on the thickness, I usually do something like 4 minutes on one side with the oven slightly open, then flip them (only once) and do 4 minutes on the other side with the oven closed. Then you can just scootch them off the top piece of the broiling pan and dump them into the juice that dripped for about 2 minutes. Don't use any salt in the marinade though.. sometimes with venison it can already be tough and salt is bad news for any marinade. If you use salt to pre-season you only wanna do it like right before it goes in the oven, especially a meat like venison

Am I the only person that thinks the gamey taste is part of why I like it?

Maybe you've just never had a really gamey piece.. if it's really gamey it tastes like spoiled meat almost.

you treat venison exactly the same as any red meat

if you single shot kill it there is no gamey taste (seriously)

just cook it like you would beef ... lots of onions is a good thing

My favorite is deer stew.

If they're just steaks, I'd just let em marinate in whatever you want for a few hours, and toss em on a grill.

I was actually talkin with a few guys at work about this a couple days ago, and I had this wrote down from one of them--

Need: Couple pounds of deer
an onion
a bell pepper
2 cans of mushroom soup
2 cans water
salt

Brown deer in shortening. Saute onions and pepper in drippings. Add enough flour to make the drippings a brown gravy. Use soup in gravy instead of water. Pour the deer, pepper and onions, mushroom gravy, 2 cans of water and salt into slow cooker. Cook in pot on low all day

Never tried it myself, but looks tasty..

bah. I blew the heart out of a buck a few years back, dropped him on the spot and it was still pretty darn gamey=/

My favorite is venison stew. I remember we used cream of mushroom soup out of a can to add to the broth...gah, ill look thru the recepie books and find some recepies for you i think. If i can find em D:

Juls wrote:mark there is venison in penang :S

OMG IS THERE VENISON IN PENANG MALAYSIA!?!? HOLY SHIT!

Well, I made a mixture of Lawry's, powdered creamer, corn meal and flour. I rolled the steaks in that and pan fried .Was very yummy.

We used to make a foil boat, drown them in salt and beer and grill them, but I dont have a grill.

Guntaag~~ WOuld love the recipe for that stew if you can find it. Thanks.

TOnight!! Venison sausage in marinara over tortellini

Mmmm I could live off deer jerky for years.

spaghetti is good with deerski

chilli too, best chilli is venison np

Mmmmmmmmm squirrel gravy

Million Dollar Stew

1-2 pounds venison
2 cans Campbells cream of mushroom soup
1 envelope dry Liptons onion-mushroom soup mix
4-5 skinned & cubed potatoes
cup of water

After removing all fat and tendons, cut venison into slices or chunks (1/2" across grain) and soak in several rinses of fresh water. Drain venison and place in crock-pot. Add cubed potatoes and cover with cream of mushroom soup. Sprinkle dry onion-mushroom soup mix on top and add cup of water. Cook on low or medium overnight (approximately eight hours) and stir several times while cooking. Venison should fall apart when done. Make enough for the next day because this stew is even better when heated again.


and again and again=P This looks like about the recepie we used to use, i think instead of the onion soup mix we just used onions ,heck try the mix np.

You can use your steaks for this NP im sure but neck roast is best from my experience (and lots of folks throw the neck out =/)

Also, add carrots, celery

Yeah. That sounds good. Celery for the win.


As for the gamey taste, there are a lot of factors. Knowing that deer do not have the same enzymes in their meat as cows, and that hanging them to "age" does nothing, I've noticed a distinct difference between deer that have been left to hang a couple days and those that have not.

Temperature at the time of the kill also makes a difference. If you arrow a deer in early bow season and it's 75 degrees out, I hope you're good with a knife and have a freezer near by. Any time wasted here will result in a very poor tasting meat.

The first deer I ever shot (with a rifle) was the only to require a second killing shot, and as far as I can remember it tasted largely the same as the other 100+ deer that have put venison on my table over my life.


My last bit of advise is that if you know how to can food and have a pressure cooker, go ahead and can some venison. Fill a pint jar up 2" from the mouth, pack it down to remove air bubbles. Add some onion, and a teaspoon of salt. Pepper sparingly. Garlic sparingly (or none at all). Can for at least 45 minutes at 15lbs ( I think 15 lbs. Your canner will have 2 weights, one for vegies, 1 for meats).

Best venison you've ever had. Make stew with it, make stroganhoff with it, use the juices to make gravy and pour over rice or noodles. All you have to do is heat it up, and if your cans sealed it's good for a year or there abouts.

yum

I have never cared for venison, precisely because of that gamey flavor. Even the gamey flavor in Lamb is bad enough that I don't eat it very often, anything gameyer than that, forget it.

-Arlos