Help: wild game supper

Subject: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:30 PM

three guys from a local church are playing for a wild game supper tomorrow night, i have never heard of such a gig, and i was thinking that maybe some of you veterans might have heard about something like this?

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:51 PM

Is the wild game spinthebottle? Or strip poker?

A

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:01 PM

Played a number of them. Super one up near St. Johnsbury, VT, that we've played a number of times. Don't even get paid, go way up there just for the food. Moose, Bear, Rabbit, Deer...and BEAVER PIE!!!

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:06 PM

beaver pie sounds nice. BOB

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Allan C.
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:17 PM

'Spaw! 'Spaw!!

Now, where is that boy when you need him?

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:24 PM

he's probably at the wild game supper eating beaver pie.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:25 PM

i forgot to mention that beaver pie goes good with whip cream, ever tried any? BOB

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Peg
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:17 AM

My uncle used to own a sportsmans' tavern and had game dinners there all the time. My other uncle would keep bringing platters of venison from the kicthen and telling us it was different animals (like bear, moose, elk, etc.). I also used to date a guy whose parents owned a hunters' lodge up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont...they also had dinners there...

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 06:13 AM

I've eaten beaver... I mostly like the tail. Beaver is quite musky, being a small, furry animal which spends most of its time in wet conditions, coming out mainly at night.

Some are very cute and fun to observe, especially the young beaver. I've spent many hours fascinated by them. I actually made friends with some over the years, bringing them treats and courting their company. But, they ARE wild and can turn on you in an instant, so be careful.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 11:47 AM

Shoot, we play at "wild game" suppers most of the time we get together. My lady friend is a dang fine cook and her specialty is baked coon (with rutabegas, and carrots and wild onions) Tonight we're getting together but the only wild thing will be our stories, we're saving the coons and venison for the mid-winter campout at Old Mines in February. I'd say we eat as much wild as domestic here with farm-raised buffalo replaceing beef whenever possible.

To answer your question: Good "Old Timey" music, specially waltzes if folks want to round dance.

CB

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: wdyat24
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 12:42 PM

53,

If you need some ideas and recipes for the wild game supper, get a box of Roadkill Helper produced by GAG Foods. On the box you will find directions for cooking various wild and not so wild game on a hot engine manifold. Just add the Roadkill Helper to the wild game and cook to suit your taste. Some of the regional favorites on the back of the box are: Squirrel Souffle, Weasel Normandy, Quartered-Pounder with Fleas, Armadillo Almondine, Catsserole, 18 Wheel Possum, Boar-N0-More (Ham enroute), Rat-atouille, and Spatula Surprise (Road Pizza). Sounds delicious!

wdyat24

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 01:13 PM

TOO many people with WAY TOO much time on their hands (hee hee) CHEERS Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:06 PM

wdyat24... how's she goin eh ? Haven't seen you post in a while. How's the better half ? What's all the news ? Got any little critters on the way yet ?

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Jimmy C
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM

Been to a few family(in-laws) dinners, with venison, wild duck, wild geeese, and bear on the menu. Also had a few great dinners with some newfie friends - Deepfried cod tongues, lobster tails and seal flipper pie. My favourite is bear, tastier than any sirloin steak.

If you ever drive through Vermont or Upper New York State you will notice many signs from roadside diners " You kill it - We Grill It". They probably cook the kill but keep some for themselves to sell.

Never tried possum or Armadillo, but rattlesnake ain't half bad.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:58 PM

Texas rattlesnake is great! ... Bob

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:21 PM

i love vension, and in fact glenda is cooking some tomorrow night, and then we'll sing and play. BOB

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From: Haruo
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:46 PM

I got a quart jar of venison for Christmas (along with smaller jars of apple, elderberry, blackcap and grape jellies, grape syrup, and watermelon pickle. From a cousin once removed and her husband who live on a homestead up in the Idaho wilds. They get a fair amount of cougar, too, don't know if they eat it. Might. Depressed economy and whatnot.

Liland

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Haruo
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:48 PM

Which reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I went into University Seafood & Poultry and tried to order a wild boar's head for next Christmas, but they say they don't carry them. They advertise wild boar; now why would they carry wild boar and throw away the heads? Especially at Christmas time. Kind of like raising turkey for their giblets and using the rest of the bird for fertilizer.

Liland

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 11:42 PM

There is a store just North of Seattle, on 99, called Erotic (sorry) Exotic meats. They sell, legally, all kinds of game from all around the world: Boar, venison, several snakes, turtle, etc. Bob

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: 53
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 11:51 PM

i live in south carolina, and i think that traveling to seattle for vension would be sort of a long drive ,so i'll just get mine from a deer hunter who lives only a mile down the road, but thanks for the info. BOB

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Haruo
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 11:54 PM

Okay, so is it called "Erotic (sorry) Exotic meats"? Or was the "Erotic" a Freudian slip or something, or a literary allusion to the sandwich board in front of "Sugars"? I'm half serious. I mean, I can imagine some people who might name their abbatoir "Erotic (sorry) Exotic". And there is The Erotic Bakery at about 45th and Sunnyside. I liked it better when it was called, more coyly, less blatantly, and (I felt) more erotically

Marzi Tarts

AN EROTIC BAKERY

Liland

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Deckman
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 12:55 PM

It is called something like: Exotic Meats. It's about 145th and Aurora on the East side of the street. It's really a neat place, but not if you're a vegetarian! Bob

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: leprechaun
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 01:03 PM

Time for some more venison habanero jerky.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Peg
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 03:45 PM

a good marinade for venison: (slice venison loin into 1/4 inch thick medallions and marinate in olive oil, minced fresh garlic, salt, black pepper and Guinness (from the bottle and not the draught kind; the thick sweet non-carbonated version seems to work best). Soak for an hour then fry in hot skillet with butter or more olive oil (don't omit the fat, venison is lean and needs to be cooked in soem fat to avoid drying it out).

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: lamarca
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 11:21 PM

There was a year at the Getaway (or was it the Spring FOTM Getaway?) when Pete the Spy decided to cook Bigos', AKA Bambi and Thumper Stew, for Saturday night dinner. True Polish bigos' is Huntsman's Stew, and is supposed to be a gemish of wildfowl and game meats and kielbasa. Pete used store-bought rabbit, venison, chicken and kielbasa - it grossed out the vegetarians, but boy, was it good!

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:21 AM

Too fancy. Iron frying pan, butter. Pancakes, maple syrup. Strong tea, cookies. Delicious. Only way it's better is if your pan is on an open fire in the woods where you got the game.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Gervase
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:26 AM

Ah. bigos - one of the world's great dishes. I can feel the juices beginning to run as I read this!
One good thing about being temporarily unemployed (as I am at the mo) is the chance to go beating on local shoots midweek as well as shooting at weekends.
Thus at the moment I'm sated on pheasant, looking forward to a couple of mallard at the weekend and planning to roast a woodcock I bagged on Saturday tonight. All free-range, all totally organic and all pretty nearly free.
Game is one of the great culinary cinderellas in the UK - it's tasty and good for you, but too many people are put off for all sorts of reasons. Which is a shame - I'd rather see more land used for shooting and conservation than turned over to 'birdie Belsens' producing millions of unhealthy broilers.
Ho hum - no time for a rant here...

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 10:19 AM

I know a few wild ladies who are usually game.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM

*groan* ;~)

My husband's Swedish, and in the course of a visit a few years back we had moose, venison, elk, reindeer....by the time we went home it was commented that I (a former vegetarian) had eaten Bullwinkle, Bambi and Rudolph, all in the same week!

In truth, as most of them were served in a sort of brown gravy, meat & potatoes way, it seemed very much like stewing beef to me, maybe a bit more strongly flavoured in a few cases, although the reindeer was smoked and served in thin rolled-up sandwiches, with very cold schnapps.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: DougR
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:41 PM

I've had Elk and Moose, and Buffalo and enjoyed it.

Beavers bite back, Gnu? Hmmm. Thanks for the tip.

DougR

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:44 PM

You mean in Sweden, Desdemona? Or in Minnesota? (I ask because "moose" is strictly a North American critter; in Europe they have a very similar animal but call it "elk", while what we Norteamericanos call "elk" (aka "wapiti") is not found in Europe. Outside of zoos, anyhow.

Liland

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: leprechaun
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:10 PM

Anything that grosses out a vegetarian is alright with me.

Subject: RE: Help: wild game supper
From: Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 11:05 PM

Liland, you're absolutely right. In Sweden the somewhat smaller moose-like animal called "alg" (a with two dots over it) which sounds elk-ish is what we've had. And, they do have wapiti in the Stockholm zoo at Skansen.

Cheers, Hans (Mr. Desdemona)