What are y'all doing up so late? Me, I'm grinding my meat.

Seriously, I'm grinding some lovely venison-burger tonight.
I brought a deer back on Saturday, but I couldn't let it
hang outside for the proper 5-day period because Monday was
just unseasonably warm.

So, I cut it up Sunday night, got the roasts wrapped and into
the freezer (except for the one that's brining in a 'corned beef'
mix for Saturday supper), and I've "aged" the small pieces in
the fridge for 3 days.

So now, the time of waiting is past, and the hour of meat-grinding is at hand!

If you haven't ever had a good, properly-ground venison burger,
you don't know what you're missing. I've paid good money
for BUTTER that wasn't as tender as my venison burgers.

So, that's what I'm doing in the wee hours this evening.
What are you guys up to?


Richard

weight?

Oh and I just finished steaming 4 dozen tamales (beef, but venison would be damn fine too). Ready to crash.

I've got about 15lbs of lean meat and 3 pounds of fat scraps,
and I'm mixing them as I go.

I try for a rough 85/15 mix, so I reckon I'll have 3 or 4
pounds of meat left over after the fat is gone...that's
when I reckon I'll break out the spices and experiment
with a 'smoked dry sausage" idea I've had on my mind for a few years.

I am busy writing my Christmas cards!

Nearly done too...

My tongue is GLUE.

Your venison sounds very tasty!

:hi:

:hug:

If you were like me and had no friends,
your tongue would be fine right now.

Just sayin'. :shrug:

bought the deer?

...and returned home with a skinned & quartered deer carcass
in the trunk of my car.

No currency was involved at any point, I assure you.

that is hot.

I like that. Call me sometime, won't you? :evilgrin:

Richard

:blush:

Your wife would not appreciate it. ;)

I had a wife once, many years ago...it lasted about 18 months.

And she probably WOULD have appreciated it if you had called me,
because she was only with me for the fat paycheck I was drawing back then,
and I really think she would have been thrilled if I had been able to
spend my "happy naked sweaty fun time" somewhere else.

If I was the kind of guy who could wear a ring and keep a girlfriend on the side,
we could have stretched that marriage out to 5 or 10 years.

But I'm not, so we didn't. And that was a long, long time ago.



Life is STRANGE, and I make it a point to rise to the occasion.
I am many things to many people, but I'm not MARRIED to anyone.

Life is strange. Amen. :toast:

I love bacon wrapped venison roast.

You work hard to create the impression that you someone you are NOT.
Personally, I find that FASCINATING.

You spend a lot of time and effort constructing DU posts
that seem like deliberate attempts to crete the impression that
you are some sort of flirtacious, superficailly-minded person...

But you're not doing that totally well, and you're not fooling me.
Every once in a while, you get caught sideways and post what you REALLY think...
I've noticed those posts. I've noticed them a lot.

You aren't the superficial little 'flirt' you want DUers to think you are;
you've got an above-average IQ and you are in the habit of THINKING ABOUT THINGS.

You are smart as hell, and you think about things A LOT.
You seem to be attempting to hide your light under a bushel;

FYI: it's not working; those of us with eyes have noticed
that your bushel has a thousand-watt bulb under it and it's
glowing bright enough to attract small aircraft!

Seriously: call me sometime.

You and I together, even just for an afternoon....
we could sweep a seriously broad SWATH across the face of this planet.

You know we could.
You suspect that we WILL.

Call me.

Richard Steele

:D

I've been up a whike and need to crash :P

My fave is sausage (canned)

:hi:

Remind me to give you a firm blow abve the eye sometime!

Canned...:eyes:

Tonights an early night! Normally I don't finish until 2am, so being home at 1:30ish is nice.

Mark.

worrying about what I should choose to worry about next?

B-)

The scientists currently spending their lab time
researching the concept of "zero-point energy"
would be well advised to take a look at GD:P sometime.

That entire forum regularly derives immense amounts of HEAT
from the empty spaces between bits of NOTHINGNESS. :eyes:

Ike the hurricane kitten wants play right now so sleep will come later.

I understand completely.

just reading a lot of madness, watching sportscenter...being bored.

And I'm off work tomorrow, so I'm going to stay up. :)

Edit to add that usually when I say I'm "grinding my meat," I usually mean doing something else. :evilgrin:

Talking about your delicious venison sausage right in front of me like that when I have none of my own. Heartless monster!

:cry:

It's too bad you're on the other side of the continent;
if you were within driving distance, I would TOTALLY
be willing to meet you somewhere and give you all the sausage
you could handle. :rofl:

:P

the top of it. Should I go out and start to scrape off my car?" Blech.

Thats a lot of meat grinding.

...but now that I've got it in the kitchen, I've
got bowls full of venison stacked up to the fricking rafters!

150lbs is a very small amount of weight to drag out of the woods,
but it's a total OVERLOAD of meat for ten bowls
and one meat-grnder on an 8-foot kitchen countertop, Itellyawhut!


Richard