Bambi In The Crock Pot!

Simple Cooking For The Geographic Bachelor

from JoeUser Forums
Yes, Virginia, Contrary to Mr. Disney, Bambi is better in the crock pot then in the woods or jumping in front of your car on a 2 Lane highway.

Todays feast starts with a venison shoulder roast recieved from our resident Math Geek, the Zetan. I figured that bambi would be best browned in olive oil with crushed garlic, white and black pepper, then placed in the crock pot with beef stock. So that is where mr. deer is now.
He will be accompanied by two pounds of small red potatos, 1 pound of baby carrots and 1 large white onion, cut into medium sized portions. I will say that just the browning process put a wonderful aroma into the air that makes it easy for me to wish dinner time was sooner rather than 4 or 5 hours from now.

When served , bambi will be sliced and placed on a plate to await a shitake mushroom and burgundy brown gravy, brocolli and cauliflower mix, and one hungry geezer. If the resident vegetarians could smell my apartment now, they would probably backslide and beg for slices of wild bovine goodness.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

As good as your feast sounds (and probably smells) I'd still prefer to see the deer wandering through the woods.

Venison wasn't one of my faves anyway....I liked bambi chili, but anything else just didn't taste good to me.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
The mushroom brown gravy makes venison steaks or any dor that matter, taste good. The only problem with that is that venison is too lean to leave drippings for gravy. So good cheater gravy doctored up with the sauteed mushrooms, wine and maybe a secret ingredient. My breakfast has been 3 very large cups of coffee so I need a snack due to the smell making me even hungrier.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
It is even better today. The roast just falls off of the bone and the mushroom gravy makes the potatos a meal all on their own.
Time for seconds, but no kimchi.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gee Geezer, I thought we were doing good to have "Bambi in a Bucket" (aka Bucket O' Bambi) in the freezer. I wish I could eat mushrooms, your dish sounds wonderful. Here I experimented the other night with soaking Bambi meat for 24 hours in water with a bit of salt, drained it and then soaked another 24 hours in buttermilk. Husband made "Bambi Ragoo" and for the first time, I really, really liked the meat. Well, I liked it the time we marinaded it in tons of home made blackberry mead too, but that was cooked on a grill. Since I don't like any "wild" taste in my meat, its been hard to find a way to cook deer that I like, in a kitchen. The water and buttermilk seem to work great. I got the idea from members of the T2K Timebomb forum. A lot of them hunt or have partners who do. I think I may try your crock pot dish, with the treated meat and beef broth, minus mushrooms. I have homemade beef broth (husband uuses large beef bones for knife handles when he's blacksmithing). I'll let you know how it turns out!

Yummm Disaster Cat, who needs to go to bed, its 3am!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would recommend more rosemary, thyme and garlic on the next one. The homemade broth sounds like a good idea too.
If the deer eat grain all the time, (Like in kentucky/Southern Indiana) they taste a lot less gamy then the deer that live in the pine woods. (More bitterness)
Also if you can harvest a Doe rather than a buck, their meat is tastier.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
mmmm.....tastes like zombie...........
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

they taste a lot less gamy then the deer that live in the pine woods


I eat game for the different taste!

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Out where i live the deer eat sagebrush. I wonder how elk would taste in blackberry mead?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
I will trade ya some bambi for some elk.... thats my favorite wild game ,
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
My grandpa used to make a good bambi sausage.  My dad always referred to venison as "high speed beef".  Your dish sounds really good though geezer.  I always find it funny the people who don't have a problem eating beef or pork but think deer hunting is awful.  I've met a lot of cows, pigs and deer in my day and the cows and pigs are lot more intelligent and likeable than deer.  They all roast up pretty nicely though   (I know, I'm bad).
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
GEEZ?

WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUU?

I miss ya man!
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
It would be nice to see an update, but then again, I suppose I shouldn't complain since I haven't updated in a while either. Regardless, you are missed, Geezer...........
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I haven't died just tired, and doing the occaisional poker Blog.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Geez Geezer, get up off your tired rear end and post damn you.

And get on karma at some point so you can school me at CS. I picked it up again for the first time since I left Texas.

Give me a call. You have my number.