Post by SEDstar on Aug 29, 2015 6:50:40 GMT -5
most of the time when people are doing their own deer? they get so CONCERNED with getting roasts and steaks and chops and straps? the "ground meat" is relegated to the SCRAPS you scrape off when you are done getting all the "quality" meat off.
me? I'm go great butcher. plus? various deer bodies trophy hunters have dropped off? tasted variously from better to less than perfect. SO... i finally once decided screw it, i'm gonna ground meat the ENTIRE DEER. I cot off the backstraps for a few steaks, and ground meat-ed the whole rest of the thing. I had to defrost and clean the freezer out, and put the copious amounts of ground meat into these ziploc baggies as i ground it up in the kitchen sink. They weighed about a little over 2 pounds each. They filled up my little freezer in my fridge, stacking them like bricks, and i had several left over that would not FIT so i ate them up pronto out the fridge.
The deer ground meat, when you do the whole deer as ground meat? is MUCH better. AFter a few nights of burgers, i started making ANYthing i would with ground meat as i had so much of it. my 2 favorites ended up being deer tacos, and making cheap spaghetti sauce "good" by adding tons of browned ground meat to it.
right now money is tight? so... a buddy i have a key to his garage as we were working on gutting and redoing his house, and that garage has his game freezer in it. He told me several times to "eat up" the ground meat, as hunting season is coming up and no reason it go to waste. His deer was processed, and the meat is in 2 pound sealed tubes.
deer taco is pretty straight forward, you brown 2 pounds of ground meat, then add water and 2 packets of taco seasoning. simmer it to thicken it, and put it in taco shells with *whatever* topping you like.
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this is fine, but... i like to add after browning the 2 pounds of meat? a little extra water with the 2 seasoning packets... then i add 2 small cans of "refried beans" to it with more water, then spend the time to simmer that down to thicken up. It really "creams up" the taco meat filling, plus it really fleshes it out to go further.
i have been skipping the "taco sauce" as an added expense, and just got a big bottle of franks hot sauce, lol. I dont "do" lettuce/tomato/onion on tacos... so i just fill the taco shells with meat, glug on some franks hot sauce, and plop shredded chaddar on it and call it a day.
i assume everyone knows this, but, just in case? when you put the leftover in the fridge? it gets dry and crumbly and nasty? just add a cup of WATER to it and heat it up and stir it the next day, good as new.
also, doing 2 pounds at once? you have enough to get a good handful of raw ground deer meat to give the CAT a treat. my cat like raw deer meat more than anything cooked. CAT likes it more than any cat food i can buy her.
the MAIN ideas with ground deer meat? ONE... dont be afraid to ground meat the entire deer or most of it, the more good meat you get into the ground meat, the better it is. TWO... add a can of refried beans to every pound of meat, it makes it go further, and, creams it up in a way i like it.
you will need extra water to do this, and you will *think* the 2 cans of refried beans disappeared in the water? but when you simmer it down to thicken it up, is where it gets good.
me? I'm go great butcher. plus? various deer bodies trophy hunters have dropped off? tasted variously from better to less than perfect. SO... i finally once decided screw it, i'm gonna ground meat the ENTIRE DEER. I cot off the backstraps for a few steaks, and ground meat-ed the whole rest of the thing. I had to defrost and clean the freezer out, and put the copious amounts of ground meat into these ziploc baggies as i ground it up in the kitchen sink. They weighed about a little over 2 pounds each. They filled up my little freezer in my fridge, stacking them like bricks, and i had several left over that would not FIT so i ate them up pronto out the fridge.
The deer ground meat, when you do the whole deer as ground meat? is MUCH better. AFter a few nights of burgers, i started making ANYthing i would with ground meat as i had so much of it. my 2 favorites ended up being deer tacos, and making cheap spaghetti sauce "good" by adding tons of browned ground meat to it.
right now money is tight? so... a buddy i have a key to his garage as we were working on gutting and redoing his house, and that garage has his game freezer in it. He told me several times to "eat up" the ground meat, as hunting season is coming up and no reason it go to waste. His deer was processed, and the meat is in 2 pound sealed tubes.
deer taco is pretty straight forward, you brown 2 pounds of ground meat, then add water and 2 packets of taco seasoning. simmer it to thicken it, and put it in taco shells with *whatever* topping you like.
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this is fine, but... i like to add after browning the 2 pounds of meat? a little extra water with the 2 seasoning packets... then i add 2 small cans of "refried beans" to it with more water, then spend the time to simmer that down to thicken up. It really "creams up" the taco meat filling, plus it really fleshes it out to go further.
i have been skipping the "taco sauce" as an added expense, and just got a big bottle of franks hot sauce, lol. I dont "do" lettuce/tomato/onion on tacos... so i just fill the taco shells with meat, glug on some franks hot sauce, and plop shredded chaddar on it and call it a day.
i assume everyone knows this, but, just in case? when you put the leftover in the fridge? it gets dry and crumbly and nasty? just add a cup of WATER to it and heat it up and stir it the next day, good as new.
also, doing 2 pounds at once? you have enough to get a good handful of raw ground deer meat to give the CAT a treat. my cat like raw deer meat more than anything cooked. CAT likes it more than any cat food i can buy her.
the MAIN ideas with ground deer meat? ONE... dont be afraid to ground meat the entire deer or most of it, the more good meat you get into the ground meat, the better it is. TWO... add a can of refried beans to every pound of meat, it makes it go further, and, creams it up in a way i like it.
you will need extra water to do this, and you will *think* the 2 cans of refried beans disappeared in the water? but when you simmer it down to thicken it up, is where it gets good.