BIRD FARM SOUTHCooking With Game
Man, I love to play with fonts. Just shakes things up a bit and it's so easy. Maybe it's just that I'm easily amused. I hope that is a good thing, being easily amused, I mean. Just click a key and things change. I like it. It is distracting. Huh? I'm still here; I was just thinking about something else.
Oh yeah, the purpose of this post - Cooking with game meat. Have you ever? Do you wanna? Are you afraid?
I believe there are 2 keys to success cooking with game;
1. Make sure that someone took proper care of the game right after it was killed.
This is the key - field dress the animal RIGHT AWAY AND THEN COOL IT DOWN. I don't mean when you get home from hunting; or after your buddy finds his deer, or after you've had a snort to celebrate, I mean RIGHT THERE IN THE FIELD, toot sweet, immediately after you get to the dead animal. Take a sharp sharp knife and get to it. There are excellent guides for this. I'll find the names for you.
2. Don't overcook the meat.
Pretty simple you say? Well, if you like your steak well done, I was gonna say I can't help ya, go read somebody else's cooking blog. But wait - if you like your steak more than medium rare, you can still eat game and have it taste great; it is just gonna taste like great pot roast. Do I sound prejudiced about well done (anything more than medium rare) steak? Insightful of you - I am, but bear with me cause I can still make game taste great. Even pot roast can be overcooked and I don't want you going there.
Game, by it's very nature, is low fat. (BTW some of the fat it does have is of the Omega 3 variety; these are the fats that are good for you.) This low fat thing drives our cooking methods. Fat is what keeps our meat moist. Game without moisture is like the bottom of your shoes. Yuck. The solution to this fat/moisture problem is twofold. You can eat it medium rare or less or you can cook low and slow with added moisture. More to come. I promise.
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