Eat What You Kill - Game Recipes, Food Prons

[Anastasis 23,454]

Got around to the shank onion soup. Got to be clear that I am not a real french onion soup fan, so no real frame of reference.  But shred enough shank into the bowl and have some cheese covered baguette to soak it all up and things kind of work out. The broth was very sweet with all on the onions caramelized.  

 

[Anastasis 23,454]

Smash venison burger and some wild beaver I found hustling around the place. 

 

 

 

[LW Goatman 1,117]

A smash venison burger in the cast iron with some solid cheese and onions is a staple of mine. Good show. 

[LW Goatman 1,117]

@Anastasis - I use the oklahoma onion method, have you ever tried that. 

Fuck OU.

 

https://jesspryles.com/meet-oklahoma-onion-burger/

[Anastasis 23,454]

7 minutes ago, LW Goatman said:

@Anastasis - I use the oklahoma onion method, have you ever tried that. 

Fuck OU.

 

https://jesspryles.com/meet-oklahoma-onion-burger/

have not tried that.  I griddled onions and shrooms with olive oil and seasoning before I did the burgers. Cleaned that off, then smashed the burgers, and after that cleared toasted the buns. 

[686 3,446]

Where has this great thread been my whole life? I need to explore the site more. Elk burgers tonight, not nearly as gourmet as you guys.

[Texzilla58 4,731]

Where has this great thread been my whole life? I need to explore the site more. Elk burgers tonight, not nearly as gourmet as you guys.

This looks great!

[686 3,446]

This looks great!

It was easy on the palate as well. I did some long range shooting at the ranch today with some new handloads for my elk rifle and the results weren’t great. I had a little panic attack after that at the thought of not getting an elk this year. Need to change it up, figure it out and get dialed in soon.

[hornmpa96 2,618]

Chicken and Deer Sausage Jambalaya stuffed peppers

[Herbie Hancock 7,341]

That’s some solid work. A+ for presentation.

I’ve got two back straps and three 1/4” sliced ham steaks marinating for fajitas. I’ve never
Made venison fajitas before but like every year for as long as I can remember, I hoarded my meat for fear of running out before next season and now I’m staring down a freezer that needs a lot more room made in it before November rolls around.

[Anastasis 23,454]

On 6/10/2022 at 8:15 PM, LW Goatman said:

I use the oklahoma onion method, have you ever tried that. 

SAw this in my NYT feed earlier this week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/dining/oklahoma-onion-burger-recipe.html

Spoiler

The Burger J. Kenji López-Alt Can’t Improve (Only Tweak)

Oklahoma onion burgers, which cook in moments, are so perfect in their simplicity that they can’t be better, he writes.

Invented during the Great Depression, Oklahoma onion burgers can stretch ground beef without sacrificing flavor. Credit...Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

By J. Kenji López-Alt

July 19, 2022

Humans have been cooking meat with onions for at least as long as recipes have been recorded, but I’d argue that the combination was simplified to its primal core during the Great Depression, when Homer Davis and his son Ross invented what they called the Depression burger at the Hamburger Inn in El Reno, Okla.

By smashing shaved onion — a half-onion’s worth per burger — into a few ounces of ground beef, they not only offered his customers a better value in their five-cent hamburger. They also inadvertently created a sandwich that, like pizza margherita or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I consider a culinary endpoint: a creation so perfect in its simplicity that it cannot be improved upon, only tweaked.

“De Re Coquinaria,” the oldest known cookbook, includes numerous dishes for meat stewed or simmered with onions and spices. Likewise, onions have been a part of hamburgers since before the modern hamburger as we know it — a patty of beef sandwiched in a soft bun — was invented. Recipes for proto-hamburgers, like the Hamburg steak listed on an 1837 menu from Delmonico’s restaurant in New York, included onions or garlic blended into the meat patties. In his book “The Hamburger: A History,” Josh Ozersky credits Walter Anderson, a founder of White Castle, the world’s oldest fast-food hamburger chain, with first thinking to place onions directly on the griddle with the beef to “bathe in the juices of the still-cooking meat.” Those sliders are still cooked on a bed of onions today.

But what makes the Oklahoma onion burger (as the Depression burger has come to be called) different? The volume of onions is certainly part of the equation, but it’s also how they’re cooked.

You may wonder if you’re adding too many onions atop the patties before cooking them. You are not.Credit...Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

Even in El Reno, the exact cooking process varies from diner to diner, but the basics are the same: A small ball of ground beef is placed atop a griddle, then topped with a confusingly large haystack of very thinly sliced onions. The cook then aggressively smashes the beef into the griddle, spreading it into a rough patty large enough to overhang the edges of a bun, while simultaneously embedding the onions into the meat. When juices start to collect on top of the patty, it’s scraped up and flipped, onion side down, and seasoned with salt and pepper.

It’s topped with a slice of cheese, if requested, followed by a soft, untoasted bun — heel stacked on crown stacked on burger — which warms and softens in the onion-scented vapors rising through the beef. A few moments later, the entire stack is lifted with the spatula, the heel of the bun is removed from the top and placed underneath. Then, with a light squeeze and pull, the spatula is removed, and the burger is placed on a plate.

The onion burger has reached newfound popularity in recent years, largely as a result of George Motz, author of “Hamburger America” and host of First We Feast’s “Burger Scholar Sessions” series on YouTube. (In fact, the first time I had a burger specifically referred to as an Oklahoma onion burger was in 2009, when Mr. Motz and Mr. Ozersky hosted small bimonthly gatherings at R.U.B. Barbecue in New York, where the chef Scott Smith recreated an array of regional burger styles from Mr. Motz’s book.) During the pandemic, Mr. Motz delivered onion burgers via a “burger slide,” a chute that dispensed burgers from a kitchen window in Brooklyn to hungry socially distanced customers on the street below. He has since wrapped up a Northern European tour, serving onion burgers to sold-out crowds. His YouTube videos on onion burgers have racked up millions of views.

Turning over your spatula offers more leverage for scraping the patties from the griddle.Credit...Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

I talked to Mr. Motz on the phone about what makes the onion burger work so well. According to him, the answer is twofold. First, it’s how, in a well-prepared onion burger, you achieve multiple onion flavors in the same sandwich: the sweetly caramelized ones in direct contact with the griddle, the soft steamed rings pressed into the meat and gnarled, nearly burned shreds that frizzle out of the burger’s edges the way my daughter draws hair with crayons. Beyond that, there’s the onion vapor that permeates the soft bun. These textures and flavors yield a remarkable depth that varies from bite to bite. But even more important is the amplifying effect that onions have on the beef flavor.

“The science of onions cooking in rendered beef fat is perfection,” Mr. Motz said. He’s not wrong.

While the bulk onion aroma comes from a class of chemicals called thiosulfinates, a 2000 study published in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that, when isolated, a particular odor molecule (3-Mercapto-2-methylpentan-1-ol or MMP) had the aroma of meat broth. A subsequent 2004 study found that the concentration of this compound can be increased by up to nearly eightfold by slicing and cooking onions. Adding sliced and cooked onions to meat actually makes meat taste more meaty.

Moreover, both thiosulfinates and MMP are compounds created via enzymatic reactions only after an onion is sliced open and its cells spill out their contents. For this reason, when making onion burgers, it’s important to rupture as many onion cells as possible. Slicing the onions paper thin — a task best accomplished with a mandolin-style slicer or a food processor with a very thin slicing blade — is essential. Individual onion cells are also longer along the root-to-stem orientation (do you remember looking at onion cells under your first microscope?), which means that slicing them perpendicular to this orientation — into rings parallel to the onion’s equator — will rupture more cells and thus release more meat-enhancing compounds.

Pressing down on the patties allows you to better incorporate the onions and the meat.Credit...Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

My process for cooking onion burgers at home adheres closely to the original method. My main tweak is in the temperature of my griddle. The diners in El Reno maintain their griddles at a moderate temperature (around 380 degrees Fahrenheit, Mr. Motz says). This is by necessity: Any hotter and the pancakes, eggs and other diner staples that are cooked alongside the burgers would burn.

When I make onion burgers at home, I preheat my griddle the way I would for smash burgers, getting it smoking hot. As I place the patties of beef and onions on an ungreased steel griddle, I smash them with a stiff spatula, concentrating on the edges, and spreading them out so that they cook up lacy thin and deeply browned. Using an ungreased griddle or heavy carbon-steel or cast-iron pan is important — you want the meat to stick in order to brown efficiently.

To scrape them up, I turn over my spatula for more leverage (or, when I feel like pulling out an extra tool, I’ll use a razor-blade wallpaper scraper to extract every bit of brown crust from the hot metal). After flipping the patties and topping them with the buns, I cover the stacked burgers with a folded dish towel, a technique I picked up from Telway Hamburgers, a small chain of slider joints in Detroit. The towel (which I call the Onion Towel, as it now eternally smells like onions, despite multiple washes) traps onion-scented steam directly against the buns, making them extra-soft and oniony. The result is a burger that has the hallmark aroma of the classic, but with a bit of extra browned flavor and texture from the hard sear and an especially intense onion scent.

There is a downside to cooking onion burgers at home: Even with the best ventilation, the same onion vapor that permeates the bun and towel will permeate every porous surface of your home, including clothes, pets and children. If you have outdoor space, this is a simple issue to solve: Mr. Motz suggests placing your griddle or skillet directly on an outdoor grill, cooking and serving al fresco. (This also affords you the opportunity of adding some chargrilled flavor directly to the beef for a delicious variation.)

If you, however, are apartment-bound, open all the windows, find the strongest fan you can, and make sure all residents are in the house when you start cooking — you don’t want to be the only one smelling like onions all week.

 

[deadshank 24,652]

One of the guys in our camp brewed up some wild turkey green Thai curry over rice.  It was tasty but the curry was sneaky blazing.   Cleaned me out the next morning.  

Edited July 31, 2022 by deadshank

[DalTxHornFan 3,097]

9 minutes ago, deadshank said:

One of the guys in our camp brewed up some wild turkey green Thai curry over rice.  It was tasty but the curry was sneaky blazing.   Cleaned me out the next morning.  

You have a hell of a deer camp!

[4th and 5 4,914]

Grew the potatoes and gigged the flounder

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

Got a couple limits of dove last weekend in Brownsville, so made some poppers today.  For a change up, I marinated the jalapeño slices overnight in pineapple juice, and used smoked gruyere cheese.  Cheese was great - it doesn’t run out all over like cream cheese and the saltiness went good with the peppers. I slightly under cooked them on the grill and then after that last pic stick them under the broiler for 5 minutes to crisp up.

 

[Call 393]

Barasingha (swamp deer) bacon wrapped back strap  from a while back. Pretty damn delicious similar to Axis in taste also originating in India. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

1 hour ago, Call said:

Barasingha (swamp deer) bacon wrapped back strap  from a while back. Pretty damn delicious similar to Axis in taste also originating in India. 

Swamp deer doesn’t sound very appetizing.  Looks good though.  

[Texzilla58 4,731]

Swamp deer doesn’t sound very appetizing.  Looks good though.  

That’s why they call it Barasingha. Same thing with orange roughy. The marketing folks knew no one would buy slimehead. No one ate drum or Patagonian tooth fish. Change the name to redfish and Chilean sea bass and they get eaten into near extinction.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

Looks like a goddamned Hindu caterpillar.   Also looks like 7 generations shat on that grill.  Adds flavor I suppose.  

Edited September 13, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[mooseoutfront 3,643]

Lots of fresh moose meat available to me right now. 
 

This is a steak cut off the hindquarter. 
 

Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper over charcoal…simple is best. 

[TexasHooch 5,122]

Andrew Zimmern has a new show on the Outdoor Channel that's all wild game.

https://www.outdoorchannel.com/onlineexclusiveepisodelisting/andrew-zimmern-wild-game-kitchen/458691

This is straight up cooking, none of the usual fluff, and I really like it. Good ideas here!

 

[Anastasis 23,454]

Bone in backstrap.  Been posted a few times before.  This time with some shitake brown rice, and a coconut milk based black pepper sauce. 

 

[Herbie Hancock 7,341]

And here I was thinking I was fancy by chicken frying some ham steaks tonight at work. 

[Anastasis 23,454]

3 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

And here I was thinking I was fancy by chicken frying some ham steaks tonight at work. 

Threw it together we stuff we already had around the house.  The shitakes were rehydrated, which was not ideal but avoided a trip to the store. I would have actually made a trip to the store to pick up cream to do a proper sauce, but the wife prefers no dairy and...well...undefeated...so gave it a shot with the coconut milk.  Will say, there is a unique flavor to the coconut milk that balances out the coffee chili rub that the meat was cooked in and finished with. After I took the pic I took another ladle of the sauce and smothered the chops and rice with it. 

[JSB 677]

Just found this thread while looking for gator ideas. Yeah, I just bought a gator to be delivered just before my 40th. Now I have to figure out how to cook him. I didn’t kill him, but this thread seemed like a good spot. Stock photo of what is coming.


I did however take a good chunk of Sandies from lake Ray Roberts a few weeks ago and fried those bad boys up. They were delicious.

[Texzilla58 4,731]

There is something wrong about eating a goddam reptile.

[JSB 677]

10 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

There is something wrong about eating a goddam reptile.

username checks out

[686 3,446]

Jerky from last year’s elk eaten earlier this week while elk hunting. Didn’t get a shot at an elk this season, so having to figure out an alternate wild game meat plan this year.




Also brought elk steaks and sausage up and they were great; but was too hungry to think of taking pics before consuming.

[LW Goatman 1,117]

Oryx backstrap. A bit overcooked, hit 135 degrees internally as i wasn't paying attention. It still ate.

 

 

 

[hornmpa96 2,618]

Braised Venison Neck Roast with mashed potatoes and roasted brussels 

[Trey3216 15,343]

Cross-posted from “Shit I’ve cooked lately”, but I did some venison BackStrap Parm today.   
 

-marinated the meat in milk, Herbs Provence, and garlic.  
-breaded in bread crumbs.  
-pan fried in olive oil for about 3 minutes each side then finished in the oven.  
-damn tasty 

 

[deadshank 24,652]

White tail shanks medley. 

[hornmpa96 2,618]

Venison Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato sandwich 

 

[solamente73 1,132]

Cross-post at @Anastasis’s request.  Elk ragu over pappardelle.  Was heavenly.

 

 

 

I kinda winged this one, using several recipes for guidance. The basics:

1 elk chuck roast

1-2 carrot - chopped

2 celery - chopped

3-4 cloves garlic - minced

1 white onion - diced

1 can crushed tomatoes (28oz; I prefer Contadina)

2-4 cups beef stock

0.5-1 cup red wine (optional)

2 bay leaves

salt and pepper to taste

Pasta of choice

Parmigiana reggiano as desired

Italian parsley for garnish

 

- Salt and pepper the roast.  Then sear in olive oil using a heavy pan.  Remove roast once browned.

- Using the same pan, sauté carrot, celery, onion, garlic.  Deglaze pan with beef stock.

- Transfer seared roast, sautéed veggies, browned bits, and stock to a Dutch oven.  Add tomatoes and wine, bay leaves. Braise covered in oven at 325* for 3.5 hours or until roast shreds easily with forks.

-  If necessary, remove roast and reduce sauce further to desired consistency.

-  Serve over pasta of choice.

-  Top with parmigiana reggiano, garnish with Italian parsley.

This is very easy to make.  For me, the key was letting simple, bold flavors stand out on their own without getting too cute with ingredients.  I find this approach lets the elk shine.

Edited March 14, 2023 by solamente73

[Anastasis 23,454]

Venison backstrap bourguignon. Followed this riff on Child's recipe (oven method), just sub chunks of backstrap and a few other minor mods based on ingredient availability. 

https://cafedelites.com/wprm_print/49336

 

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by Anastasis
fixed the base recipe.

[hornmpa96 2,618]

It’s been too long since someone posted in this thread.

This venison keema aloo was great last night.

[Anastasis 23,454]

Venison bone broth soup with blue oyster mushrooms. 

[BHMCruiser 1,813]

Seriously that's next level.

How did it taste though? Venison is one of those things that, to me, no matter what I do to it I always wish it were beef or pork. 

[Herbie Hancock 7,341]

Thin sliced almost 4 pounds of backstrap for jerky. Dale’s, hefty splash of Worcestershire, liberal amount of Allegro Hot &Spicy. Three jalapeños + half of an elephant garlic. Ran it through the blender then put it all in a bag and let it sit for about 20 hours. Dusted it with Bolner’s garlic pepper and some crushed red pepper flakes. Into the dehydrator and now…..……we wait…..