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Thank you so much for the

miaarticoli — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:28:03 -0500

Thank you so much for the advice and recipies. We will certainly try it. When we do, I will post my results.

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milk the venison

Andrea Meyers — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:21:41 -0500

Venison can have a gamey, wild taste to it which some people find unpleasant. My father has been hunting deer since he was a boy, and both he and my mother suggest soaking the venison in milk overnight before cooking with it to help get rid of the gamey taste. They swear by it!

As for recipes, because venison is so lean, you want to use the meat in ways that add back tenderness, such as slow cooking with liquids. It can also stand up to strong flavors. My mother makes stroganoff in the slow cooker using venison instead of beef, and it's pretty darn good. Anytime she makes a stew, she uses venison instead of beef.

Hope this helps!

Andrea

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Now that's funny!

grannysu — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:43:59 -0600

Thirty years ago we ate brown rice, yogurt, and other foods that were considered weird then, but are mainstream now. I got such a kick out of my youngest son, a fitness buff in his early twenties, called me from Germany to extol the virtues of brown rice, flax seed, and his rice cooker. This from the kid who wouldn't touch such stuff when I cooked it!

I am glad you appreciate the foods your father brings you. You will eat well indeed!

I am surprised when people turn up their noses at wild or homegrown food as something that's not quite up to par. If they could see how the foods they purchase at the markets are processed and handled I think they'd have a different point of view.

Granny Sue
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