Your favorite “eating” game, and how you prepare it

[deermanok]

Ruffed Grouse, prepared any way you wish. Mmmm...
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I was on a hunting trip to northern Maine about 6 years ago. My buddy's son shot grouse nearly every day. He breasted out the birds, wrapped the meat in bacon with a jalapeno pepper tucked in there. Pan fried, man those were delicious.

 

[Cherrybow]

One of my favorite meals is spaghetti: ground deer, pasta sauce made from Ms. Smiths pasta sauce recipe and roma tomatoes from the garden. For the noodles I steam a halved spaghetti squash until soft enough to fork the squash loose from the shell (use the shell for your bowl) then add in the sauce and a little parm cheese. Crushed red pepper adds a little bite to if you like hot stuff.

 

[user 36911]

Without question it's elk meat for me. It doesn't matter how I cook it I love it. I can and do eat it everyday if I have enough to do that.

I hunt and eat mule deer but i'm not a fan. My dog is my only family and he has to eat too. He gets the bear meat and loves it..

 

[Art Caputo]

By far, my favorite is Ruffed Grouse........Salt/pepper fried or baked. My wife makes a fabulous Cacciatore.....

 

[Eric Krewson]

I like it all but wild duck is my favorite. I bake a whole duck at 425 for 23 minutes, cut the breast out and slice it into medallions. I make rue from the drippings with onions, mushrooms and dry red wine. I cook up a pot of wild rice, place the medallions on the wild rice and cover everything with the red wine rue, it's fit to eat.

I like squirrel as well, cooked about any way. I usually pressure cook them for 12 minutes, batter and fry them then make a mushroom and onion gravy to simmer them in for a while.

 

[Boston Bill]

Groundhog: boil and remove meat from bones when tender. Add curry to the meat and let it simmer 15-20 minutes. Serve over rice.

I read this to the wife.
She wanted to know if that will help you predict the weather better?

 

[SOLANCO]

Dove: fillet the breast, dip in flour, egg, flour with seasoning and fry in bacon grease. Serve with mashed potatoes. Gravy can be made to go with this by making a roux in the pan and adding milk.

Deer: So many ways! Steaks, roasts, stew, ribs in the crock pot with barbecue sauce and a little bourbon, soup, etc.

Squirrel: Roasted over a fire with some salt. Or treat like dove above.

Groundhog: boil and remove meat from bones when tender. Add curry to the meat and let it simmer 15-20 minutes. Serve over rice.

A mess of dove breasts braised in milk and Tabasco sauce.
Sauteed deer liver, but you have to do it asap after you kill the deer.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

In my youth I enjoyed canned venison, rabbit, partridge, pheasant and squirrel. Small game hunting has not been good here for quite some time.

Here is a good corned venison recipe:

Ingredients
3-4 lb. venison roast
½ cup Morton’s Tender Quick
½ cup Canning Salt
¼ cup Sugar
2 quarts Water
3 Tbsp. Pickling Spices
12 black peppercorns
6-10 garlic cloves

Directions
In large pot, add the Tender Quick, canning salt, and sugar to the water and bring to boil. Once the sugar and salt are dissolved, transfer the brine to the refrigerator to cool completely.

Pour the cooled brine over venison roast in a plastic, glass or other non-reactive container. Add the peppercorns, pickling spices, and garlic cloves. You may have to weigh the roast down with a plate or board to keep it submerged. Cover and refrigerate for 5 to 7 days, stirring the brine every other day.

Remove the venison from the brine and rinse well. Discard the brine. Place the roast in a large pot, cover with cold water and bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for at least 3 hours.

 

[Bnewberry]

No better at predicting the weather. But it does inspire the groundhogs not to forecast more winter!

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Groundhog: boil and remove meat from bones when tender. Add curry to the meat and let it simmer 15-20 minutes. Serve over rice.

Oh.. that reminds me of "Redneck Surf and Turf" - Woodchuck and carp...

 

[SOLANCO]

I was on a hunting trip to northern Maine about 6 years ago. My buddy's son shot grouse nearly every day. He breasted out the birds, wrapped the meat in bacon with a jalapeno pepper tucked in there. Pan fried, man those were delicious.

I love grouse, but have a hard time hitting enough of them to make a decent meal LOL.

 

[TGJaeger]

Elk loin, cut thick, wrapped with thick cut bacon and well seasoned with salt and coarse ground black pepper. Grill over quakie wood coals to medium rare and served with Brook trout, the kids caught while you were fixing the fire. Fried ‘taters, my famous mile high buttermilk biscuits with butter and honey. Strong black coffee and a generous glass of Gentlemen Jack.

 

[Ragged Edge]

Nilgai. Any way you want to prepare it.

 

[andy52]

I've eaten just about every critter out there but Moose is by far my favorite.

 

[sawyer04]

Fried squirrel rolled in corn flakes baked until tender and fried until crisp, mashed potatoes from the years production, gravy, green beans from the years production, tomatoes canned ,fresh, or stewed. maybe a desert of goose berry or black berry pie for desert. Not every time, but a swig of wine from the cellar.

 

[Robby]

Hands down, ruffled grouse. Haven't had a bad way to fix them yet.
Robby

 

[kemart17]

Whats everyone’s favorite thing to eat that they hunt themselves? What is your recipe? I love everything but my favorite is probably wild hog tenderloin marinated in orange juice and honey. I also love “chicken-fried” Venison with white gravy

venison, preped way more ways then have time to wright about. love them all!!!

 

[Magungo1066]

Alright fellas! I arrived at my family farm late last night and went to work this morning with the fowler! First encounter of the day was a cottonmouth at my feet...Now I LOVE snakes but not poisonous ones at my feet hissing. Shortly after I found a nice plump squirrel high up in a tree and landed all the shot in the head! The fowler performs amazingly. Now fellas! How should I cook this squirrel??? I wanna try something new

 

[appalichian hunter]

Tom A Hawk, the best way to cook a carp is bake it on a pine board then throw away the fish and eat the board.

 

[Magungo1066]

Tom A Hawk, the best way to cook a carp is bake it on a pine board then throw away the fish and eat the board.

In New England we say that about blue-fish! Haha