What's for dinner?

[sumi]

I made enough lunch today to have leftovers for dinner. Fried pepper, mushrooms, onion and bacon with some crumbed feta mixed with pasta. Went perfect with 2 large stuffed mushrooms I picked up cheaply at Tesco.

 

[CrealCritter]

Deer loin chops in the Crock-Pot

My wife makes pork chops this way. They are fork tender and delicious. I decided to try some deer chops, using the same method.

Separate the chops (miter saw works well for cutting through the bone) and trim off any silver skin. Rinse, then sprinkle with salt and pepper, then brown both the outsides in a pan with a little olive oil over high heat. Add 4 cups of water to the Crock-Pot and one package of Lipton soup mix, lay the browned chop in the Crock-pot, cover and set on high. They will be done come dinner time, serve over rice with veggie and cornbread.

Easy... Got 8 chops in the Crock-pot.

 

[CrealCritter]

I walked out in the back of the house wendsday evening just about dust and there was a doe frozen soild in my garden corn patch looking at me. I quickly drew my .357 pistol, aimed and shot her in the head. She dropped instantly. I gutted her right in the garden and drug her back up to the wood shop with some rope. I strung her up from the rafters, took her coat off, split her in 1/2 down the spine with my sawsall and left her hang until this morning. She wasn't small or huge either but the meat I've cut is good and dark red and tender.

I aint no butcher but here's some ribeye steaks from one side.

I guess I got a garden that jus keeps on producing

 

[CrealCritter]

Tonight I cooked chicken wings and baked beans. We love wings and I think that might have been my last package. The good news is DH is enthusiastic about raising chicken CCX in the spring.

But of course, home raised CCX are the best! Store bought CCX doesn't even compare.

 

[baymule]

Tonight we had baked chicken thighs and drumsticks, cream corn, fried okra, baked beans and grapefruit salad. I'm fat and swelled up like a grey dog tick.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yum! We're having leftovers with a side of wine.

 

[CrealCritter]

So, you going to come cook some venison for me? Because that sounds amazing!!

I wished I had a freezer shelf full of this cut of venison. I cut the halfed back bone with my hand saw to make the steaks and they are extremely tender. It's just where the ribs stop and before the hind quarter. I left both the backstrap and loin on. On a cow butcher chart, it's called the short loin section.

I really think seasioning both sides with Lawry's Seasoned Salt before freezing, had a lot to do with the delicious non gamey flavor. I'm no butcher or cook, but every once in a while with dumb luck - I hit a home run.

 

[Mini Horses]

I like "ish" dishes. Just uses up "ends" of what is on hand.

My goat meat cooking today will be using up some leftovers and a trial for my "learning" to use this meat. Like it so far but, it does take some trial and error to use. Instant Pot for this today & a bottle of Merlot.

It's a meat I can use, raise fairly easily, quantities good for small family, etc. The taste has been good so far. Wanting to get a few dish options behind me to decide on another for my own use. So far, so good.

Stay tuned...……


I'm thinking chicken or turkey next week. I still have a turkey breast I didn't cook @ Thanksgiving. Will be nice sandwiches.

I also grabbed a recipe for Simple Skillet Bread today. Want to try that. It's a flatbread type thing which I like generally. Whole wheat & soy flours. Only 2.5 cups total which means a small batch. Great for me. I need to "find" my bread maker soon. I prefer small loaves, fresh when I want them.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I would love to try goat some day. DH isn't so sure about it.
He also says absolutely NO GOATS. I have a maybe on sheep...

I had a professor in college who raised a goat every summer. Tied it to a dog house and the neighbor hood kids would come over and play with it all the time. Then he would have it butchered and smoke it for the neighborhood block party. Those city kids sure got a country education from him, lol

 

[CrealCritter]

I would love to try goat some day. DH isn't so sure about it.
He also says absolutely NO GOATS. I have a maybe on sheep...

I had a professor in college who raised a goat every summer. Tied it to a dog house and the neighbor hood kids would come over and play with it all the time. Then he would have it butchered and smoke it for the neighborhood block party. Those city kids sure got a country education from him, lol

When I was dating my wife 35,000 years ago. I worked at this placed called furniture arts studio in Elgin, IL. A few times a week we would go to a Mexican dive for lunch. They had only one thing on the menu, a burrito and a large Coke Cola for $2.00 The burrito was absolutely huge. When I say huge, I mean huge! No way any human being could finish it in one setting. So it became lunch the second day also.

The burrito came with goat or beef or chicken or a combination of the meat. The guy on the grill had three huge piles of meat that he was constantly cooking. The goat and beef we're off the chain delicious. I would sometimes order 1/2 goat and beef. Eat the goat size one day and the beef size the next day. But more often than not, I would order all goat meat. I've loved goat meat every since then.