Here’s one of my favorite bottled meat recipes. It is so fast and easy and we love it around here! Remember the bottled meat? This could be any meat–I especially like deer/venison. Elk is good also–it gets a little softer in the bottle, where the venison holds a little firmer texture. I’ve seen people bottle […]
Making Gravy from a Liquid
Gravy is a necessity with meat at my house and there’s a couple of ways to make it. Today we’ll do the liquid based method (usually results in clear gravy depending on what you add to it), another day we’ll do the fat based method (these are usually the cream/white style gravy). Step 1: Get […]
Finished the Elk and Other Stuff
I know you all are laughing, but it seriously took me until the 27th to be totally finished with that crazy elk! We kept it cold in a cooler outside (well, mostly frozen actually) for a while, then moved a leg or sack of meat in at a time and worked on it. It usually […]
The Grain of Meat
Meat has a grain. Don’t get confused and think I’m putting proteins in the grain group here. Meat is obviously not a grain, but meat has a grain like wood does. The grain is the direction the fibers of meat run. Generally the grain runs parallel to the bone, however frequently the grain goes a […]
Home Canning Meat–Bottled Meat
Bottled meat is one of my favorite ways to preserve game meat. You can also bottle non-game meats like beef, pork, chicken, and even fish. It takes a long time to make it (mostly processing time in the canner), but when you need to use it, it is already cooked and ready to throw in […]
Cuttin’ Up Elk
Well, got the elk to the house last night (already quartered) and put it all in big coolers with ice outside on the north side of the house so it would stay cold. Turned out a pretty cool day so I’m not concerned about it going bad out there. Started in on it this morning–had […]
How to Gut a Trout
Over at a friend’s house for bottling butter today and she had a couple of trout she’d been given that were at least 2 days old in her refrigerator. Now, 2 day old trout is okay, but these had not been gutted when they were caught so weren’t any good, but we had a little […]
Easy Jerky from Elk or Deer/Venison
I pulled meat out of the freezer that had been cut for jerky and frozen to dry later. One package of elk was from 2001–a bit old after spending almost 7 years in the freezer–the outside layers were freezer burned pretty bad, but there was some good meat still on the inside of the pack. […]