Dinner tonight--nice end to a sad story. What's cooking for

My neighbor hit a deer on the way to work last monday. A beautiful little doe. No damage to the truck. Thanks to Colorado's Division of Wildlife policies, a quick phone call gets a roadkill permit....they have 24 hours or some such for an officer to come up and examine it hanging if they wish to. We're an hour from town, so they didn't, and mailed the permit.

SO -- what's cooking for all y'all today? Here it's venison chili from the stew meat, 3 hours on the woodstove and 3 more to go. The garnish is smoked venison backstrap and tenderloin, with a cajun spice rub. Side dishes brought by neighbors, not sure what they are yet. I'm doing portabello mushrooms saute'd in white wine, stuffed with stilton cheese.

I really appreciate a government agency (the Colorado DOW) that makes such things easy--too bad for the little doe, but at least the meat isn't wasted. I've never had even the slightest harsh word with our state's DOW -- every single officer I've met in the last 20 years was courteous, polite, and non-officious. I've even heard them apologize for issuing a ticket to other folks (never got a ticket myself from them). "Sorry sir, but this really is flies and lures only water, and you have a worm on. I have to give you a ticket. Sorry about that. Use a Mepps next time please here."

Gotta go, time to stir the chili and check the smoker!
DANBOB

Buffalo wings and celery with blue cheese dressing for me tonight, but man, I'm jealous. Haven't had venison in about 8-9 years. I still remember my mother cooking a venison roast every Christmas day eve. It was family tradition. My mother would bard the roast with bacon and thick slices of onion with salt and lots of pepper...yum! thinking of it makes me want to take up hunting.

Danbob,

Listening to you describe it, definitely got my mouth watering!

Hope you guys really enjoy all that succulent food, sounds like a real feast.

Now, what's for desert?

Terry

:D

:D After reading this I'm going to have to head over to Oldest Daughter's and Son-In-Laws and "Raid" the freezer and Steal er I mean "Borrow" some Venison.
Bill :D

Traditional dinner here. Turkey - Ham and all the trimmings. Had a nice little rainbow trout for brunch.

I wish our provincial government would adopt a similar law about road kill deer. To many times I have seen a perfectly good animal laying beside the road because you are not allowed to utilize it.

It sounds to me like you should be the official food supplier and head chef for the fish-ins. :lol:

Danbob, you made it sound so good and I have a full stomach...lol I can smell it cooking from here... enjoy!

I have to agree - Last winter I came across a wounded doe during the winter that had been hit the previous night I guess. I was out hiking and decided to leave it to pass in peace. The next day brought me back on the same trail in the Minneapolis suburbs and to my surprise the deer was still alive though decidedly worse off. Most MN cities will give "roadkill permits" so I called the city police since they had to dispatch the wounded deer. Sad situation for sure, but the meat was welcome on my table. Enjoy!
-Erik

The province of Newfoundland does it a bit different. I worked with them for awhile and when a moose or caribou gets hit, if there isn't much damage, the meat is usually given to a charitable organization for a moose stew or burger or what have you dinner as a fundraiser. Again, the meat is not wasted, which is good. The person who hits the moose is not given the opportunity to claim the animal. however, given the size of a moose, they often have more pressing matters to attend to anyway, such as vehicle damage or (God forbid) hospital stays.

Makes me sick to see road killed deer just lying there going to waste. Pennsylvania has a program called Hunters Sharing The Harvest. The state has butcher shops all over that participate in this program. I think they also take road kills in. They process and package the meat, then give it to a local organization, like a food bank, to give to the needy. Wild venison is the healthiest red meat there is. Darned yummy too.

If they allow your friend to have the pelt you can ty lots of flies with it. You can either cure the hide yourself or have it done professionally. Well worth the time and money.

I have heard of that when I lived in NY tooo Eric....giving the abundance of the venisons to the Food Banks. Very nice thing... like you said just sickening to think of all that delicious stuff going to waste. As I type I can remember a brother in law saying he was bringing me some venison, and I have yet to see it, phone calls in order tomorrow....lol !! The best roast I have ever had per say though is the moose roast I had for Easter one year in Alaska. YUmmyyyy !! Glad you got some good meat for chilis and such....enjoy!!

Our dinner tonight was C.O.R.N....lots of leftovers to use. We had Ham Pot Pie and that for Easter.