Watcha' cookin'?

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I’m pretty good in the kitchen 😉, I’m just tired of the usual. I need to find some more “go to” dishes. Especially for weeknights…
 
I’m not a fan of venison. I want to like it, but it’s always “gamey”. I love venison jerky, but never made peace with it any other way. Not sure why…
Don't shoot larger deer, soak the meat in an icewater and cider vinegar bath for a couple days, it helps remove the gaminess. Maybe not enough? I love wild game so it's not an issue here. Some people are more sensitive to it. My deer jerky recipe annihilates all. I listened to my neighbor brag about his jerky for two years and he gave me some one day. Bland as can be. "I just dip it in the brine and throw it in the dehyrdrator" LOL you gotta smoke it or it's shit.

I’m pretty good in the kitchen 😉, I’m just tired of the usual. I need to find some more “go to” dishes. Especially for weeknights…
Tbh I'm not very savvy in the kitchen unless it making bread, spaghetti, or just cooking meat so I'm probably not much help.

Follow a YT cooking channel.
I like the Scott Rea project but it's mostly his expertise in preparing specialty meats and stuff. Killer channel. Dude has mad skills.
 
So this is last Monday at my cabin:


Let the skewers soak, Q'd up some shrimp and onion and few mushrooms, + 2 chicken thighs, and dumped everything into a pot of black beans and added some cherry tomatoes, cumin, salt, pepper, other spices, and several table spoons of salsa. You've seen me do this before - I do it all the time. So good.


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I'm doing Soup & Sandwich for supper tonight. Baked a loaf of bread earlier today. Soup is cream of mushroom. I have onions an mushroom sautéing right now.

For desert I made devil's food bundt cake.
 
So this is last Monday at my cabin:


Let the skewers soak, Q'd up some shrimp and onion and few mushrooms, + 2 chicken thighs, and dumped everything into a pot of black beans and added some cherry tomatoes, cumin, salt, pepper, other spices, and several table spoons of salsa. You've seen me do this before - I do it all the time. So good.


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2k3nF5S.jpg


lMlB1Ve.jpg


WPqtJOE.jpg


C8jGcTS.jpg
Those onion skewers look great. I'm a sucker for a good grilled onion.
 
Don't shoot larger deer, soak the meat in an icewater and cider vinegar bath for a couple days, it helps remove the gaminess. Maybe not enough? I love wild game so it's not an issue here. Some people are more sensitive to it. My deer jerky recipe annihilates all. I listened to my neighbor brag about his jerky for two years and he gave me some one day. Bland as can be. "I just dip it in the brine and throw it in the dehyrdrator" LOL you gotta smoke it or it's shit.


Tbh I'm not very savvy in the kitchen unless it making bread, spaghetti, or just cooking meat so I'm probably not much help.


I like the Scott Rea project but it's mostly his expertise in preparing specialty meats and stuff. Killer channel. Dude has mad skills.
Send me some jerky and let me be the judge… 😉
 
I stand by my request…
I'd happily share the basics of my recipe with you, it's nothing really that technical tbh I just wing it but you gotta have a smoker and some decent smoking wood. I use live oak cause that's what I have out here.
 
I have a smoker 😉. I don’t have venison to smoke…
I'm guessing you could buy a lean beef roast and make some pretty good smoked jerky out of it using the recipe but I've never tried it so it'd be an experiment. I can't imagine anything heavily marbled or fatty would work very well but I could be wrong about that.

I don't measure anything, I just work it to taste....in a big stainless bowl I cover the meat with water, add a buncha brown sugar, a fat dose of pickling salt, worcestershire sauce (the critical ingredient for flavor maxxing, don't skimp on it), black pepper, red pepper flakes and anything else you like and soak it 24 hours in the fridge. I always sample my brine prior to refrigeration to make sure it tastes the way I want it and adjust it from there.

Smoke it until the surface takes on a dry, crazed appearance. If you're keeping a sharp eye on it you'll see it when it happens. Some pieces may be done sooner than others depending on where they are on in the smoker (at least in my smoker). If you gotta nice sharp knife and can get really thin cuts it reduces the smoking time quite a bit.
 
I’ve made jerky several times using beef. Typically using a London Broil roast. It’s delicious, but with beef prices these days, it’s not economical to do so.
 
I’ve made jerky several times using beef. Typically using a London Broil roast. It’s delicious, but with beef prices these days, it’s not economical to do so.
One of the guys from church has a small cattle ranch but buying half a cow is more dough than I can afford to cough up for beef at once. Storing it all would be another problem. I wish though, cause I wanna say it worked out to about $3 per pound when I ran the numbers. That's cheap.
 
The price per pound is definitely a bargain when you get a side of beef. For roasts and hamburger, frozen is fine, but I can’t deal with steaks that were previously frozen. I can taste/tell. It’s a no go for me…
 
Cajun Cream shrimp over linguine. I should have added a slurry to thicken the sauce a bit more (it was loose and the starch from the pasta water didn’t thicken as much as I wanted), but everything was tasty…
 

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