Deer camp cuisine

[Okiecruffler]

Spent a few hours out on the back porch with dad last night, roasting some bits of hog and onion around the fire pit. Did some memory chasing. Talk turned to eating at deer camp. Our group would hit the woods with a couple of bags of potatoes, a bag of onions and some salt and pepper. That was pretty much it. From time to time a slab of pork jowl could be found and always a good amount of lard. On a good day you used those to bulk up some squirrel, rabbit, or even catfish (we camped right on the cimmaron river). On a bad day it was fried tators and onion. But there was one meal that was alittle better than most and that was the night after the first deer was taken. Backstraps of that first kill were sacrificed, cut into thin strips, about a half inch wide on each side and 3 inches long. Green onion was cut to about 3 inchs and split down the middle, then bell pepper was sliced supper thin about the same length. And then garlic was sliced, a bunch of garlic, tons of garlic, a toxic amount of garlic. We tried to keep it about 2 parts meat to 1 part onion to 1 part bell pepper. All of that was fried up in a bit of lard. At the last minute, when the onions and peppers were good and tender, a bit of tomato sause was poured in, just enough to coat, not enough to drown. I'm not sure if anything has ever tasted that good.

So what's your deer camp recipe?

 

[Rembrandt]

Use to be bacon-eggs-hashbrowns-blueberry pancakes......then my son went to a culinary arts school and became a master chef. Now we have bacon wrapped deer loins seared in olive oil & garlic, garlic mashed potatoes, medley of veggies and other side dishes that have names I can't pronounce. All this served with real linen and fine wine.

 

[wleggart]

deer camp next weekend for food plots

Chicken/andouile sausage gumbo with fresh okra from the garden. Big pot of rice, potato salad and adult beverages! half of a 35# pig on the grill wrapped in foil for 6 hours them doused with some Sweet Baby Ray's barbacue sauce on a platter and everyman for himself with his pocket or belt knife and adult beverages. biscuits, fried eggs, bacon wrapped up in aluminum foil and in your pocket about 9:30AM and you're starving in the stand. Community coffe hot, black and in your cup! Squirrels anyway you cook them except old boar fox squirrels! ANything tastes better in a camp chair around a fire! Bill

 

[koja48]

Rembrandt ~ Don't know where you live, but I'd buy an out-of-state tag just for the cuisine . . . how does one make reservations? Will I be under-dressed without a tasteful camo tie? I have a nephew who took the same career path & made elk camp the envy of the mountains thereafter.

 

[Deer Hunter]

Almost makes me wish my hunting spot wasn't a mile from my house...

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Deer hunter, even if it's only 1 mile away, you have GOT to set up a deer camp, where you cook & camp out and freeze your rear off at night, even if only by yourself - that's 1/2 to 3/4ths of the fun!

Okie, you're killin me - sounds delicious! I like to just grill the freshly killed meat on the grill. Even with absolutely no spices whatsoever, it tastes great. Though I usually sprinkle on some salt & pepper, or other spices. Must be extra-rare to rare, also. I will eat backstrap raw, but it tastes a bit better with the outside cooked.