WEBVTT - Ep. 125: Remi's Favorite Holiday Recipes 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.680 As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.760 in the field. This show is about translating my hard 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.599 won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.360 to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:30.800 This is cutting the distance. Welcome back to the podcast everyone. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.920 This week is going to be my annual Christmas Special. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.560 As a Holidays near it's a great time to share 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.640 hunting stories, to prepare meals of wild game, and enjoy 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.680 the harvest after the hunt. We put so much emphasis 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.400 on success of the hunt, but there's also a lot 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.440 of success to be had in the kitchen as well. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.600 This week, I'm gonna be breaking down a few of 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.280 my all time favorite preps that you should try this 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.160 holiday season. And also stay tuned because if you've listened 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.240 to the Christmas Special before, you know that I like 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.520 to do a few special giveaways. But before I do that, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.280 I figured i'd tell the story of this week's traditional 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.880 muzzleloader hunt in true Christmas fashion. I spent the week 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.399 chasing elk and white tailed deer in the mountains, but 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.919 as my time for the hunt wind down, I found 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.080 myself on the last evening of the last day looking 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.600 to fill a tag. This was my first time hunting 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.280 with a traditional muzzleloader, and honestly I would have taken 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.080 anything at this point. So come and join me on 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:37.360 a true hunt story I wrote in Christmas Verse twas 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.800 the week before Christmas, when hunting alone, visibility was bad 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.200 and almost time to go home. The traditional muzzleloader was 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.880 loaded with care, in hopes that an elk would soon 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.480 be there. I spotted some cows, all snug in their beds, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.160 but no legal bulls with racks on their heads. It 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.080 was the last two hours hoping to load a cap. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.920 I had just settled my brain on some white tailed 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.560 extrap when out of the woods there rose such a clatter. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.160 I focused my bin notes to see what was the matter. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.440 Away to the ground, I ducked like a flash, pulled 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.000 back the hammer, and got ready to blast. A small 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.080 buck emerged in the new fallen snow. I gave a 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.320 firm grip to the musket below when what to my 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.560 wondering eyes did appear but a bigger buck, a ten 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.280 point dear. He moved toward the other buck so lively 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.040 and quick. Then behind the bushes I heard their antlers 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.680 click more rapid than a beagle. I cut the distance 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.480 all the same and set up my camera and calmed 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.160 my brain. Now record now focus. Now, grabbed the gun 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.880 and focus in on the bigger one. Skip ranging onto aiming, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.400 Calm my breath and rest the site behind the chest. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.840 Focused on the iron sight shooting a patched ball. Now 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.519 one buck moved away, moved away, no hear go all. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.080 As the bigger buck looked to turn, I let the 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.400 bullet fly, aiming on the buck perfectly on the side. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.040 Black powder, smoke billowed, and the round ball flew. It 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.680 shot through the air and found its mark too. And 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.760 then after waiting, I walked over for proof. The buck 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.880 ran off, but I found the tracks from his hoof. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.880 As I drew closer and was looking around, I saw 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.560 hair and blood on the ground, and then in the 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.560 thicks I spotted a hoof less than twenty yards from 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.760 the shot. There he lay tucked under a bush, A 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.640 younger buck, but he sported a good rack. It was 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.080 now time to drag this buck back. The truck was close. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.240 It was a pretty easy carry. Honestly, the packout was cherry. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.960 This traditional muzzleloader is a lot like a bow. I 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.040 had to get close, crawl real low. I cooked tenderloin 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.600 that night. It was not tough on the teeth. Into 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.200 the cast iron on a really high heat with just 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.640 some butter and seasoning. It was good to the belly. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.560 The flavor of the success way better than anything prepared 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.160 by Mario Batali. Near the skinning pole, I grabbed my 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.960 gerber knife from a shelf and thought, I'll butcher him myself. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.360 A quick skinning job. Down to the head. I quartered 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.240 him up with nothing to dread. I spoke not a word, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.560 but went straight to work and removed the final quarter 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.360 with a jerk. I will use this whole deer, from 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.919 his tail to his nose. I put the meat in 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.760 a YETI so it would not be froze. It's really cold. Up. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.039 I loaded the truck a Christmas song. I did whistle 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.080 this buck will be Christmas dinner with garlic, rosemary and 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.440 an olive oil drizzle. I had a great time hunting 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.440 with the old iron sight. So Merry Christmas to all 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:48.320 into all a good night. Now that is a Christmas 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.120 hunt story. I had a lot of fun this last 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.600 week hunting with the muzzleloader. UM's first time actually hunting 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.839 with a traditional muzzle looader and I learned a lot. Actually, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.760 my wife got the gun for me, uh, two christmases 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.799 a go. It was something that I talked about wanting 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:09.600 to get into and never just actually doing it. And 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.760 I was pretty lucky because my father in law actually 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.360 is big into you know, traditional muzzle or black powder hunting, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.400 and so he kind of showed me the ropes a 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.760 lot on the process of cleaning and and that was 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.640 kind of my main barrier to entry to that type 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.159 of hunt is just like not knowing really how to 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.760 use the gun, take care of the gun, being proficient 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.520 with it. And so I actually had a fifty four 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.560 caliber Peter Sali Uh. I guess it's a hawking style 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.440 mountain gun, and they call it a mountain gun. I 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.120 think it was not not super easy to carry in 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.039 the mountains. It's pretty heavy. I think it's got like 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.599 a thirty five inch barrel something like that. But you know, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.280 frontiersman would use it because encounter a lot larger animals 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.679 out west at the time, grizzly bears, elk, bison, other things, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.839 So definitely a little bit bigger than the order smaller 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.960 fifty cow hawkins. But I decided to go with that 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.320 because I was gonna be hunting either elk or deer. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.200 One thing with late season hunts, I think something that 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.360 I kind of forget about is, you know, late season 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.760 hunting can be incredible. You know you've got if you 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.240 get the right weather, you can have animals move into 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.599 an area. They can they can be out in the 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.880 open um. The downside is you might run into that 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.080 same weather while you're hunting and have no visibility. Unfortunately, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.920 for me, where I was at hunting up pretty high, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.760 I did not have any viz to where I wanted 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.159 to go, to where I wanted to be. I was 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.720 fogged in, socked in, snowing blowing really hard. Uh, if 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.880 it wasn't snowing, snow from the ground was blowing in 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.560 your face. It was just made glassing impossible. So it 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.880 made the hunting a little tough. I did get in 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.600 on a few groups of elk with some smaller bulls. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.320 I kind of saved my tag to hunt this particular 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.440 season looking for a better bull, and over the course 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.120 at archery and rifle season past st up some nice 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:02.920 six points some other bulls. Just saying I wanted the 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.000 experience to hunt the traditional muzzleloader this year. And one 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.159 thing I'd like to think of myself is I'd like 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.960 to think of myself as a hunter. It doesn't matter 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.920 what the season is, I like to try it all. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.640 I like to if there was a hunting with spoons season, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.800 I'd probably be into it and give it a shot. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.280 And this was kind of one I've muzzleloaded hunted. I've 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.120 bow hunted of traditional bow hunted, but I had never 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.440 really jumped into hunting with a traditional muzzleloader. And there 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.120 actually is a big difference when hunting with one. I found. Um, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.800 but this this particular hunt was really fun. I did 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.480 get in on a few elk, some small bulls down 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.480 a little bit lower, not really what I was looking for, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.720 but I definitely also had in my mind, man, I 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.240 want to be successful with this gun because I haven't 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.320 hunted with it, and it was kind of like, well, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.240 I'm kind of gone during the holiday season. Um, if 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.880 I'm away from home my wife and baby, I should 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.840 probably bring some meat home for Christmas. Not that I didn't. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.400 It wasn't successful this season and had eat, but it 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.040 was it would be nice to have something fresh to 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.560 cook up for Christmas and New year's so I really 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.880 wanted to bring something home as well and be successful 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.680 with it. Uh. So that that was a lot of fun. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.720 It's always fun to try something new, and it's fun 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.520 because it was a Christmas gift from my wife, something 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.440 that meant a lot. So it's a beautiful rifle, uh, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.160 something about classic firearms, something about you know, just having 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.600 a wood stock and a metal butt plate and just 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.760 a lot of metal. And yeah it's heavy and it's 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.960 cumbersome and it's difficult to carry, but the thing looks 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.679 like a work art. That's fore daring, sure, and uh 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.000 carrying it around you know, Actually it was kind of fun. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.960 It's something that made me think of my family, made 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.679 me think about the people that I love and and 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.400 trying something new and and having that and remembering that 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.280 gift as well. It was kind of a cool, cool 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.439 thing to do right before Christmas. So I enjoyed that. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.640 And essentially the hunt went just as that poem planned out. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.200 I was end of the end of the season, last hour, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.240 the last day, I thought to myself, I was actually 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.440 kind of ended my on one day. I was supposed 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.760 to be back um the day prior, but ended up 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.120 pushing it like all right. Then it was the evening 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.000 and I had to leave that night long drive home, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.679 so I'm like, I'm just gonna go out and look 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.160 for I was like thinking to myself, well, the visibilities battery. Now, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.800 I'm probably not gonna find an elk, and if I do, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.480 I'm gonna be packing it all night and then I'm 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.080 gonna be late getting home. So I decided to go 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.920 look for a white tail, and sure enough, I was thinking, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.439 I was like, man, I probably would have shot a 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.600 dough if I could have. But a small buck was 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.160 the one that I saw, and I'm like, okay, I'll 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.520 hunt that buck. And then a bigger buck came out, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.200 and then two started fighting, sparring each other, clicking, clacking 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.560 the horns together, and used that opportunity to sneak in. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.560 I was actually self filming and I was able to 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.600 get the camera set up and they were behind the 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.160 brush so I couldn't really get a shot. I used 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.280 that opportunity when they're fighting to kind of move in unnoticed. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.480 And it was pretty like the snow was not super loud, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.160 but also not super quiet. It's it was really cold, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.079 so it kept some of that fluff but just think 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.959 the stuff underneath made the noise, and I was moved 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.240 over in the little buck was fighting the bigger buck. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.040 Bigger buck was behind some brush. I got the camera 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.680 set up. The smaller buck kind of saw me, but 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.319 not really super crazy curious. It was probably fifty yards 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.360 or less, I don't know. I didn't range it, just 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.679 look close. And he started to move off, and then 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.840 just as that other buck started to follow him, just 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.120 before I was able to get a shot off and 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.240 make a good shot, went over there and and had 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:36.199 a last day, last evening Christmas. Buck is pretty awesome 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.680 and one that I'll definitely remember for a very long 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:47.600 time for me after the season or bringing wild game 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.920 home and the Holidays go hand in hand because it's 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.320 the time of year when I can prepare that wild 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.600 game for friends and family, and you know, it's also 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.400 the time of year of gathering, getting together, sharing hunting 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.640 stories and and share being a good meal. I think 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.160 that over the course of the podcast during the Christmas season, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.640 I've always tried to throw out a few recipe ideas, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.040 and one thing that I do enjoy is I enjoy 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.000 bringing the meat home and then preparing it in a 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.640 way that is enjoyable for people that both hunt and 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.520 don't hunt. I really enjoy making a great meal out 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.760 of something that I've harvested. So this week I want 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.240 to kind of break down a few of my favorite 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.880 wild game preps. And I know that talking about cooking 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.920 and like listening to it and then trying to figure 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.679 it out might make it seem difficult, but I think 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.800 that I'm just gonna kind of glaze over the recipes, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.079 the reasons that I cook things a certain way, give 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.320 you a few of my favorite holiday traditions or some 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.080 things that maybe you didn't think about. Um, we're gonna 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.360 break it down into doing a couple of different appetizers 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.960 and then a couple of different entrees, something that you 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.360 can make with pretty much anything, and I'll kind of 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.480 throw in some ways on how to change it for 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.600 something that you have now to make it a little 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.800 bit easier as well. Today I'm going to be posting 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.520 all these recipes video form on my YouTube page, so 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.360 those are there. But I think that the talking about 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.839 it it would be a good way to kind of 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.120 get you started, get your mind wrapped around it. So 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.439 you know, maybe you've got some of these items in 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.800 the fridge or freezer. You can go out and get 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.120 a few more little things and make an incredible meal 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.160 to share during the holiday season. So let's jump in. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.680 One of my first things that I like to do. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.520 One thing that I think it's overlooked with wild game 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:32.439 is making some incredible appetizers. One of my favorites to 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.920 do this time of year, which can be done very simple, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.000 or in this way a little bit more complicated, is 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.360 duck nuggets. Now, if you are a small game hunter, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.360 or or maybe you've gone out and you shot some 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.719 geese or whatever, this is a really good recipe for that. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.280 Now it's also a really good recipe to do with 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.560 any venison as well. You can pretty much make this 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.439 with anything, and I'd like to dub this the world's 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.840 best deck nuggets. Now, you can make a nugget many 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.040 different ways. The first could just be kind of chunking 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.480 up pieces, breading it in deep frying it, and that 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.880 turns out pretty awesome. The way that I like to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.760 do it imparts a little bit more flavor and it's 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.760 just a little bit Yeah, it's a little bit more 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.160 labor intensive, but it turns out just a little bit better. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.400 Think about Okay, this is a really bad example, but 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.400 the way that I like to make these nuggets is 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.720 with ground meat, so very similar to like, I don't know, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.400 the worst kind of nuggets you can get the right 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.640 like McDonald's nuggets or Dino nuggets from the freezer. This 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.079 is not that, Okay, So when you're thinking you can 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.480 ground meat and nuggets, yeah, this is not that. This 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.080 is imparting a little bit more flavor because you can 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.800 mix in some herbs and some other things and you 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.480 can make them kind of uniform shape, cook really well, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.720 and they're incredible to eat. So I know that's a 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.120 bold claim, but it's the perfect blend of flavor, crunch, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.280 and texture, and they're super savory. This way, it's a 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.320 definite crowd pleaser. So you're gonna get gather yourself up. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.800 I don't know, probably about six ducks, maybe twelve duck breasts. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.720 You could do this with um, a pound or two 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.559 of ground venison, whatever you got. Then I use about 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.160 a teaspoon of fresh time chopped up about a teaspoon 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.280 and fresh stage chopped up a teaspoon and garlic, salt, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.480 and then you're gonna need some flour. So maybe like 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.280 I mean, this portion doesn't necessarily need to be exact, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.680 but maybe like a cup and a half of flour, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.040 a cup and a half of bread crumbs, two eggs 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.440 that you're gonna beat up, just you know, take them 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.200 out back and beat them. Uh, and then a table 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.960 spoon of or sorry, a tea spoon and garlic salt. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.520 And then you're gonna need some vegetable oil for like, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.840 if you've got a deep fryer, that's the best way 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.600 to do it, like a little tabletop deep frire. That's 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.920 the way we do it. We run it outside though, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.240 so it doesn't just smell up the house and spray 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.240 oil everywhere or even like sometimes we use like a 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.360 turkey deep fryer, anything that you can fry oil, and 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:02.440 I like to fry stuff outside. My little secret secret 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.760 to keeping the holiday house clean. Um. And then so 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.680 the first step is gonna be you're gonna grind now 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.640 if you haven't, if you've got a grinder, you're gonna 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.600 grind up the duck breast. So you're essentially on a 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:16.120 fine grind setting making what would be your your nugget base. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.080 So you're taking the breast and then grinding it up. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.440 If you've already got ground venison, this isn't you just 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.920 pull it out of the freezer as is, grind it up. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.600 I don't add any fat with the nuggets, um, but 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.520 I'm using the eggs uh to kind of if you 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.560 want to, you can add eggs in with the meat 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.520 to kind of hold it together a little bit better. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.040 For the most part, though, I don't necessarily need to 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.640 add anything as a binder. So now you're gonna just 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.520 season that duck up or that grind up using like 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.160 that fresh chopped time, that sage, a little bit of garlic, salt. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.040 You're just gonna mix it all in. And then what 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.880 I do is I line a cookie sheet with like 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.520 parchment paper, and I press the ground meat into like 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.440 a thin even layers. So I've got cookie sheet, I've 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.480 got the parchment paper maybe aper on top, and then 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.760 just push it let it like make one nice tray 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.240 of meat, and then I'll just cover it and let 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.280 it sit in the fridge for about an hour to 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.560 five hours. What that's doing is just kind of letting 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.680 it set kind of mixed together and kind of form 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.160 stay together. Then I'll pull that back out and I'll 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.640 just form bite size, like nugget patties. Then I'll dip 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.240 that in the flour first. Then I have some egg 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.600 beaten in a bowl. Then I dredge it in the 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.800 egg after the flour, and then I finally coat in 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.120 bread crumbs. Then I'm gonna heat that oil up to 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.240 three degrees and just fry the nuggets until they're golden brown. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.560 Once they're done, I'll put them on a paper towel 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.120 line plate or something like that and let him drain, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.400 and then just serve hot, good dipping sauce. Twelve breasts. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.760 You know, that's a pretty good batch size, but you 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.520 don't necessarily need to adjust the proportions for smaller batches 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.600 because a lot of it, you know, you're just mixing 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.280 in um. You know, you can maybe cut some of 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.200 the herbs in half, but you can't really overseason in 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.399 my opinion. So that's that's one really good appetizer to 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.639 throw down with. Now, the next appetizer is going to 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.000 be one that Okay, maybe maybe, like I wish I 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.800 would have heard this earlier so I could have could 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.240 have saved some ribs. But if you happen to save 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.240 any wild game ribs, I think Korean short ribs are 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:25.520 an incredible, incredible way to prepare wild game ribs. I 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.360 think the ribs get often discarded and not really thought 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.840 about Christmas time. I save up ribs throughout the season 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.800 if I got a white tailor whatever. When I back 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.480 when we used to gather a lot and I would 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.600 do my what I like to call my famous Christmas party, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.400 cooking up all different kinds of things. Ribs was just 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.080 like a home run. You know, most of the time 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.000 you think of ribs is not very good on wild game, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.680 but prepared right, they can be incredible. And Korean short 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.639 ribs are one of my favorites. Now this recipe um 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.400 a good friend of mine, Bridget is Korean, and her 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:03.080 mom like had the traditional Korean short rib recipe that 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.480 is like their cream short ribs were always the best, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.880 and they should be because they're from Korea. And so 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.280 I think that I kind of got like the recipe. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.840 And one thing that I found out there's a lot 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.080 of sugar and good Korean short ribs, and that was 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.439 that I would always try to mimic it myself in 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.640 some way, shape or form, and then I figured it out. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.600 You just got to use the sugar. It really, it 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.960 really makes it good. So what I do first, Like 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.560 if I've got elk, generally, especially if I um got 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.160 in a place where I could pull all the ribs 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.160 off bone in ribs. Uh maybe you maybe you did 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.879 like a ribberal on your elk. I don't know if 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.479 you do that. When I A lot of times if 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.200 I don't want carry the ribs out, I actually just um, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.879 you know, take all the meat off in one and 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.880 I make the same exact thing, just boneless short ribs. Um. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.639 And so what you're gonna need. You're gonna need some 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.320 soy sauce about half a cup, and then a quarter 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.439 cup of soda and that's like either mountain dew or 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.720 seven up or some kind of clear citrus soda. And 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.760 then you're gonna go a quarter cup of sugar. So 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.080 there's like I don't know how much sugar is in 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.440 a quarter cup of soda, but um, then you're adding 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.159 a quarter cup of sugar and then about tablespoon of 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.480 sesame oil and three tablespoons of graded Asian pair. You 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.480 can use any kind of pair if it's like I know, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.840 I get those like people send as a gift where 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.840 they like Harry and David Pears or something like wrapped 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.439 up in foil. I've used those for this around this 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.720 time of year. They're great. Um. And then two table 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.240 spoons of mint scarlet and about a teaspoon of grated ginger. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.879 So what this is the ribs? Like think about a 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.120 whole rib cage and you're just cutting along, so there's 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.960 multiple rib bones in each short rib, I would say, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.280 so I just like use a band saw or saw 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.199 or saws all or whatever. I generally just use like 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.000 a saws all with a pretty much like a metal 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.320 cutting blade and just ripped through them. So you mix 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.159 all that stuff together that makes your marinade. You just 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.400 soak it. You can soak it up to all day, 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.440 or do it in the morning, soak it all day, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.479 cook him at night. Just let it soak in that 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.600 and then you just throw it on the grill about 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.880 three minute to preside and they come out incredible. Just 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.720 something to think about, something a little different. Maybe, I 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.040 know there's you know a lot of people probably have 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.480 not had Korean short ribs with elk or venison, and 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.320 they turn out great. Now, this one could be either 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.240 an appetizer or an entree and it's a little bit different. 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.040 I kind of got this recipe, and maybe I've talked 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.159 about this one before, but I got this recipe. My 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.320 dad and I were stranded in Kodiak when you're temporarily 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.200 due to some weather, a lot of harsh wind and rain, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.439