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Great looking chow fellas!

AWESOME MATE !

Got 3, still on the bone, in the freezer !

& in case anybody is wondering, I encourage all to throw up cooks / plates, just like I do in my fishing season threads !

(Freshwater fishing forum - Usually an open water & hard water thread each year)

Great for ideas & learning !

My wife and I try to make it a point to eat chicken, pork or some kind of seafood once a week, just as a break from venison.

My wife's a social worker in the foster care business. All I can say is God Bless you sir! We need more men with a heart like yours.

I am one that will not kill something if I ain't going to eat it , some reptiles don't get eat but a lot do

TRUTH ^^^^^^^

Thank you, Bugger !

I like venison but did my deer up a bit different this year as I had some moose in the freezer already.

I cut chops off the backs. The hinds will go into jerky and all the rest went into sausage. The sausage is a very flexible way to do it. We use it for breakfast with eggs, supper off the grill, in chili and spaghetti sauce, with pasta, etc etc.

Looks Professionally done SuperCub, good job!

What sausage recipe did you use?

I did the same this year. Straps and hinds into jerky, and the rest into chorizo, jalapeno/cheddar smokies, and honey garlic snack sticks.

I have limited taste and smell now so just went with a basic mild Italian seasoning for the whole batch. It's middle of the road for everyone and half of the sausage was going to my hunting pard who doesn't like it too spicey. If I want it hotter, I can always apply some hot sauce.


Thanks .... Making sausage is not really that hard with the right tools. I was a meat cutter in my past working life, so that helps as well.

Thanks. I still have some remnants of the 40 lbs of mild Italian I made last year. I agree that it's a nice, middle-of-the-road sausage.

We did the same thing this year. My cousin and I raised a few hogs for pork chops, bacon and ham steaks. We kept all of the sausage trimmings and decided to mix it with deer this year. Ended up doing a 100lb's of sausage.





In the smokehouse.





We taste tested a few of the batches as we went along. It was a long 1st day of processing and the next day took a few hours to cut and package.



Man, does it make great breakfast sammiches!

Wife made a zita with a pile of sausage and what a darn hit that was as well. Overall, it was a great way to clean out the freezer from trimmings and have great food that is there, ready to cook!

Sometimes I feel I pale in comparison... LOL! But here's the venison spaghetti with Pene noodles (what my wife likes), a crock pot venison stew, and my favorite liquid to wash it down with...

Ain't nothing wrong with that chow!

I have 3 pounds of ground venison left. Putting together an ingredients list for some chili. Can't handle too spicy anymore, so mild chilis it is!

My wife makes that, but substitutes the ground meat with cut up sausage. Big hit here, esp on a cold winter night.

Thumbs up Scott !!

Looking good.

Dean,

That all looks really good to me.

My motto/mantra is;

Food doesn't always have to look good, but should always taste good !