How Do I Cook Deer Steaks?

[tigolbiddies]

I have no idea how to cook these. There are 2 and they have been in the freezer since January. They look big and thin and lean....some slight ribbons of fat. I don't want to thaw them until I have a cooking method/recipe.

Halp!

[BurntOrange&White]

chicken fried

[Blain]

Chicken Fry!

[tx 3 putt]

chicken fried

this


or maybe philly cheese steaks ?

[gsoda3]

chicken fried is the first thing i thought of. second thing i thought of was something like a chicken cordon bleu. pound the steaks thin and tenderize with a fork or then use that to wrap bacon and swiss and mushrooms? or you could pan fry it like a pork chop and make an apple cider/mustard sauce. pour half a bottle of apple cider into a skillet, add a couple T of good tart dijon, reduce, and you can add paprika and cream, maybe a little dill.

[Duck of Death]

if memory serves me, the last time i had something like that i cut it into pieces and put it into an omelet one morning.

[Ankf00]

the answer? you dont.

you put them in a box with dry ice and mail them to me.

[tigolbiddies]

chicken fried is the first thing i thought of. second thing i thought of was something like a chicken cordon bleu. pound the steaks thin and tenderize with a fork or then use that to wrap bacon and swiss and mushrooms? or you could pan fry it like a pork chop and make an apple cider/mustard sauce. pour half a bottle of apple cider into a skillet, add a couple T of good tart dijon, reduce, and you can add paprika and cream, maybe a little dill.

This sounds excellent. I'll take the tenderizing hammer and flatten them out. Then I'll flash fry them in the iron skillet. I'll stuff them with mushrooms, jalapenos, onions, and pepper jack. Then I'll wrap some bacon around them and cook them on the stove until the bacon is crispy and the cheese is melted. Thanks! When I do this up I'll post the pron.

[judge roybeanbag]

This sounds excellent. I'll take the tenderizing hammer and flatten them out. Then I'll flash fry them in the iron skillet. I'll stuff them with mushrooms, jalapenos, onions, and pepper jack. Then I'll wrap some bacon around them and cook them on the stove until the bacon is crispy and the cheese is melted. Thanks! When I do this up I'll post the pron.

If you have a grill do them that way instead of on the stove.

[tigolbiddies]

If you have a grill do them that way instead of on the stove.

I'm in an apartment. I do have a badass grill pan and it is excellent on the stove/oven. Should have pron next week.

[judge roybeanbag]

I'm in an apartment. I do have a badass grill pan and it is excellent on the stove/oven. Should have pron next week.

Yeah, I've checked out your "grill pan" many times. :)

[scottsins]

Don't some people soak venison in milk for a while before cooking?

[Lat22]

Yes. I'd tenderize those round steaks and soak them overnight in milk. Chicken fry after that.

[BurntOrange&White]

Here is another thing I like to do.....


Fry them with a little bit of flower
make a gravy in your pan
Put the fried deer into the gravy you just made
Simmer for 30 minutes
add carrots and onion
simmer 30 more minutes
serve on top of rice

[Brad Wesley]

straight up grilling them sucks since there's little fat on them. plus they are usually pretty skinny and therefore easy to overcook. i've learned all of this through massive fail and haven't got steaks since but seeing some of these recipes has encouraged me to give it a try.

[Snow Dog]

Should have pron next week.

Tease.
I'd get some green chile gravy in there somewhere.

[hopkinsnhorns]

I would always country fry them (i.e. yankee chicken fried). This has the benefit that you use the drippings from the pan frying as the basis for your gravy.

[Lat22]

I just pulled some backstrap out of the freezer.

[HoosierHorn]

I just pulled some backstrap out of the freezer.

i'm about to.

[TOR]

We gonna get some venison pr0n?

[hopkinsnhorns]

anyone know where i can get some venison steaks? if so, about how much do they run/lb or compared to beef?

[C-Man]

Don't some people soak venison in milk for a while before cooking?

Yep. Soak them overnight in buttermilk or in Italian dressing. Helps take some of the gamey-ness out of venison. Can't tell if that's backstrap or not but if it is, you can slice them like filet steaks and grill them, perhaps wrapping a piece of bacon around each.

[hopkinsnhorns]

Don't some people soak venison in milk for a while before cooking?

milksteak :D

[tigolbiddies]

Tease.
I'd get some green chile gravy in there somewhere.

Thanks for all of the replies, guys. I cooked steak last night and I'll be headed to Austin this weekend for the game. The kitchen is closed for now. Next week is venison steak night. It remains to be seen if it will be venison steak and blowjob night.
In the mean time, here are the beef steaks I cooked last night. I tried a new rub called Aww Shit from the Big Cock Ranch in Austin (http://www.specialshit.com/). I rolled the steaks in the rub and employed the Alton Brown method. Made a nice crust/flavor.





Put the skillet in the oven while pre-heating to 500. Added the steaks with the rub and grape seed oil.





Resting under a tin foil hat.



Dinner.

[cdt23]

How Do I Cook Deer Steaks?

Deer don't eat meat, make them a salad.

[mgnhorn]

nicely done steaks.

you eat sautéed brussels sprouts?

[cam4mav]

ADIX
All Day I'm Xtreme!!!!!!!!

[Gosset the Table]

^^^Am I the only one that thought that the picture was of a forearm?

[longhrnfan]

no - i did too.

Here's a question - how keep apartment/home from getting so smokey without a badass vent? What solutions once you do it and the house smells like food?

probably a cleaning question better asked of a woman

[Angry Gorilla]

I think Wheels is a woman

[tigolbiddies]

no - i did too.

Here's a question - how keep apartment/home from getting so smokey without a badass vent? What solutions once you do it and the house smells like food?

probably a cleaning question better asked of a woman

Woman here. The apartment is easy to vent because it's got a sort-of wind-tunnel set up. I turn the A/C down, turn on the fans and open the patio and front doors. Fresh air blows through the living room, kitchen, and out the front door. Very little smoke lingers.

[coffeedillon]

sous vide the entire backstrap then put on hot charcoal grill for 3 min. a side---- will take 6- 8 hrs.

[Lat22]

I fried it up tonight. Damn, was it good. Cooked enough to have it again tomorrow, but I just finished it.

[ousuxndallas]

1. I want part of that steak and bj from wheels.
2. Venison. You can chicken fry, which is my favorite way to prepare. Another is to cut the backstrap or tenderloin into thick steaks, wrap in bacon, and grill at a very high heat for a very little time. Cook/serve rare to slightly med rare. Maybe add a nice wine sauce or reduction.

[STALKING UR MOM]

Grill meat but not all the way, just enough to to get grill marks. Use sea salt and peppercorn on it for seasoning. Put in oven and cover for 1 hour to 1 1/2 on low heat and put butter toward the end.

[Drunken Mule]

I always liked venison steaks braised in a dutch oven on the stove for about 1 1/2 hrs (after frying for a bit with a couple strips of bacon) smothered in onions and mushrooms- salt, pepper, maybe a little Accent. Make up some brown gravy with the renderings, taters and rolls.

[tigolbiddies]

I always liked venison steaks braised in a dutch oven on the stove for about 1 1/2 hrs (after frying for a bit with a couple strips of bacon) smothered in onions and mushrooms- salt, pepper, maybe a little Accent. Make up some brown gravy with the renderings, taters and rolls.

After reading your post, I found this:

http://visualrecipes.com/recipe-deta...n-Bourguignon/

I think that's what I'm going to do.

[tigolbiddies]

So, I'm working on the Bourguignon. The whole process takes about 5 hours. I'm posting mid-way through because I'm on a break before I need to braise the onions and mushrooms in beef stock. The smells in my apartment are heavenly. I can already tell that I'll be making this often.
The ingredients:


Bacon lardons about to be boiled:


Saute of boiled bacon in olive oil:


Drying the venison steak so that it will brown properly:


Browning the cubed venison a handful at a time:


Sautee of onions and carrots in the bacon/venison rendering:


Skipped a few steps here, but read the recipe. Covered the meat and veggies in Chianti, beef stock, garlic, thyme, salt, pepper, tomato paste, and crushed bay leaves.


More to come........

[tigolbiddies]

Don't crowd the mushrooms when you sautee them in butter.


Shrooms done and set aside:


Fuckin' A Whole Foods. Thanks for not having the pearl onions that I needed. These will do, but I had to throw out the moldy ones. Don't worry, they will be hearing from me.


Onions in butter:


Braising the onions in beef stock and Chianti:

[TOR]

That looks fantastic. It's dinner time on the Shag!

[tigolbiddies]

Taters wanna Tate:




And, I'm done. Nightly night.

[hopkinsnhorns]

Wow! Julia Child would be proud. I still need to make this in my Le Creuset dutch oven.

[tigolbiddies]

Sent an email to Whole Paycheck. When I was prepping the onions, some were moldy. I was less that pleased. I'm waiting for their response to my email.

Ok, I'm a loyal Whole Foods customer. I just moved to Dallas from Austin. I was preparing to make Julia Child's Boeuf Bourguignon for a dinner party. The store didn't carry fresh pearl onions, but the produce staff pointed me to "boiling onions." They were in a mesh bag and had the skins. They were larger than called for, but I needed 18 fresh pearl onions and the bag had about 10 boiling onions. It was my only option. Previously in Austin, I could find fresh small onions at HEB and Whole Foods. I was shocked that they weren't available, but I thought I could make them work. Whole Foods is always more expensive, but I rely on you for availability of fresh and unique ingredients.

So, my point. The boiling onions were moldy. I let a lot of stuff go. Really, I do. But, in this case I felt the need to let you know. Please see the picture linked.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1004.jpg

My dinner turned out well, but my frustration boiled over. I love you, Whole Foods. I really do, but you are testing me here. My high expectations have wained and my acceptance of your high prices have wained as well.

[judge roybeanbag]

F' Whole Foods. I used to go there sometimes when I lived next to one. Mainly for vitamins and occasionally for lunch stuff.

I am no longer impressed. It's a ripoff.

Grow your own onions. It's easy and you don't need any special skills or soil to do it. I've got about 100 onions, from pearl sized to fist sized sitting on my dining room table drying on butcher paper right now. If you live in an apt/condo, and have a patio, buy a long flower box. You can fit at least 20 in each one, if you don't want large onions.

[tejas60]

I just pulled some backstrap out of the freezer.

damn you!!!!

[tigolbiddies]

Hey, I'm a bit of a complement whore. My Venison Bourguignon was THE TITS. Took me 5 fucking hours. Time well spent, but sheeeet.

[spystud13]

Get a response from WF yet?

[tigolbiddies]

Get a response from WF yet?

Nope. Fuck them.

[Drunken Mule]

Wow, that's truly beautiful, man. I never had the patience to do it up that proper.

[judge roybeanbag]

Wow, that's truly beautiful, man. I never had the patience to do it up that proper.

Actually she's a woman. But she cooked that sack ADIX most magnificently.