Saturday was my annual wild game dinner. It has been a tradition for about ten years. Friends have graciously allowed me to use their cabin to hold the event since its beginning. This year about eighty friends showed for the dinner and fellowship.
If you have never had the opportunity to attend a wild game dinner or beast feast, it is a great way to sample different recipes and trade stories with new people that have not heard your stories so many times that they can recite them better than you.
Hosting a wild game dinner is also a great way to clean out the freezer of game or unidentifiable stuff you did not know you had or even what it is. If you but some gravy or sauce on it and give it a clever name they will eat it.
Some of my traditional favorites are goose or duck roll ups. They are made with sliced waterfowl breast repeatedly soaked in salt water and rinsed followed by a ginger sesame marinate. A sliver of jalapeno pepper and crushed garlic are rolled up and wrapped with a half a piece of bacon and secured with a tooth pick. Grill to a medium rare. This is the best way to prepare that liverier tasting waterfowl. Other favorites are pheasant with wild morel mushrooms, moose stroganoff, Szechuan venison, fried wild turkey fingers, Asian grilled venison, country fried venison cube steaks, rabbit in marinara sauce (that’s spaghetti sauce for us SOR folks), and venison burgers.
The Asian grilled venison has been a big hit for the past two years. Here is the recipe.
Asian grilled cube steak
2 lbs venison cubed steak
3/4 cup Canola oil or Olive oil
1/2 cup Soy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoon Garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
3 table spoons honey
Marinade for a couple hours and grille.
It is always fun to throw one mystery meat in and see if it can be identified. Raccoon, opossum, rattle snake, turtle, and crow are all good candidates for this, but remember to use gravy or sauce on these.
A brief fishing report is in store. The bass fishermen are beginning to chase the prey at night to beat the heat of the day with some good catches. The white bass are starting to surface in the evenings in their usual places such as the Thief Neck Island cut though and eagle lodge area. A mix basket of fish are being caught around the may fly hatches on the Tennessee River, and the catfish are being caught everywhere.
Take someone fishing
Greg