Whatcha cooking/ smoking/ frying. 2023…

I bet you will see the name Masterbuilt electric pop up a lot.

. What brand of pellet smoker do you have

I have a Z Grill and you can select smoke and get heavy smoke ring flavor. Leave that setting at the beginning and puff great smoke flavored food.

Unbeknownst to me, Grandson Tyler sent me a text this afternoon that he had dinner prepping for tonight.
Not quite sure why he did this combination but he had a pack of frozen deer liver soaking in buttermilk overnight and then he thawed out a few pounds of deer burger, too!

So dinner was goulash:



And deer liver 'n onions with some St. Elmos seasoning:

Gotta the deer chili on point. Fishing is good. Yard mowed before the rain. Bengals aren’t so good.
Joe hurt again.

100% excellent!

Sometimes those are the best meals!

I can see the bubble over the dogs head. "I hope I'm not next."

Just saw this thread. We love to fry our squirrel legs breaded in cornmeal in olive oil. Get them good and brown, the meat can still appear a bit raw but if it's tougher than it had been it's done. Occasionally we get the one male who's so tough we start eating him and he has to go in the trash/compost/to the neighborhood strays and wildlife but we try not to do that.

For deer... Make lots and lots of burger out of the side and shoulder meat, sometimes we have a whole shoulder cooked in the crockpot. The hind quarters become roasts, burger, cubes (soups, fried, whatever else you want), and other things. Back straps become cubes, medallion steaks, butterfly steaks, or even just sectioned backstrap for baking or the crockpot. These taste amazing as steaks, which we rarely ever do. But I like them enough that some of my deer last year got put into steaks.

Turkey... Killed my first one this past spring (a Jake; haha, got terrible "turkey" fever over having him come in despite having had some nice toms behind me earlier!). We only took the breasts and maybe a little bit of other meat. Well we baked him and he tasted better than any store-bought turkey! But my brothers both went "we don't really like it too much"..... I didn't realize how much meat is in turkey breasts alone (he filled one medium-sized glass bowl)!

Other meat is usually store-bought or from friends who have cattle. Mostly store-bought beef burger, sometimes lamb. Sometimes there's a beef roast from our friends, and also they've sometimes given us the "leftover" meat that's used for broths, sandwiches, etc. No livers or hearts, we have never liked eating those. We also raise our own goats, sheep, and poultry, and have on occasion put the occasional extra mean rooster into the crockpot. Haven't done that for about 12 years. Most of our poultry that needs to go goes to the sale barn, same with our sheep and goats. We have two or three times taken our own lambs to butcher and really all I remember from that was some really good lamb burgers! One time a few years ago a friend had a lamb that needed to be put down and she left us have it for meat. It was really strange walking out to the garage and seeing a lamb on the game hook instead of a deer. As for the goats, never tried goat but would love to keep back a wether kid for eating!