I find it funny that we accept things we’re accustomed to and often don’t think to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes. There was a time when, even though I would eat it, wild game on the table made me kinda . . anxious! I’m over that, and actually prefer game or anything from the wild or farm raised vs. what we can get in the grocery store. What did it for me was the quality. If you raise your own beef or pork or even catch fish and eat them, you know there’s a world of difference in those compared to most that you buy in the grocery store. I suppose, aside from antibiotics or hormones or who knows what kind of foreign things are in food supplies, what gets me most frustrated is the added water or salt solution or whatever they put in it so that when you try to brown it, you end up with half a pot of liquid and the meat boils instead of browns.
Elk Stew Meat
For dinner tonight, we’re having elk stew and it’s a joy to cook meat that will brown without an ounce of added water cooking out of it.
Elk Stew Meat
Does the stew meat in your grocery store look like this? Mine doesn’t and this meat is fork tender!
Elk Stew
Carrots, potatoes, elk and an amazing brown gravy to be served over rice with biscuits and a salad. I’m thankful for a friend who hunts all kinds of wild critters and generously shares with us.
Tinkerfeet says
Elk is my favorite meat! We can’t have any red meat for a while because of my hubby’s heart attack, and i know what you mean about salt being added to everything! We just went to Las Vegas to see Santana at the House of Blues and stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel and I had to bring our own food. I guess we were the only ones eating our picnic in our room there, but it was good and since I made it I know there was no salt. Lol
Theresa says
We’ve been buying meat from a local farmer, and it’s so much better than what we can get at the market. I hated buying a steak and squeezing the water out of it onto paper towels and it still steamed instead of searing. Yuck! The Chicama Run steaks sear so beautifully. The biggest difference is the quality of bacon and sausage. They taste like the bacon and sausage we had when I was a little girl. The other day I was at the market thinking of making red beans and rice, and there was no pork sausage– it was all turkey or a blend with turkey.
Margie says
You did the right thing for Rita, just give her lots of love. We just got back from our yearly vacation. A three week trip to eastern Oregon for 1 week of elk hunting. I posted about it on my bog http://threadingmyneedles.blogspot.com/ and your mention of elk stew made my mouth water. Can’t wait to get our hunting bounty back from the butcher shop!