Info on Bison

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Info on Bison
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Fri, 11-10-2006 - 11:28am

Someone was asking me about Bison, and because I'm now such a huge fan, and because it is a health alternative to beef, I thought I'd make a whole post of it.


I get my bison roasts from the Farmer's Market, and I usually pick up a little roast for about $8-$12 and it does for Matt and I and then one or two servings leftover.


Bison cooks much quicker than regular meet - for a small roast (usually a Sirloin roast) I only cook it for 30 minutes for a medium rare.


I mix up a bit of red wine, dijon mustard, coarsly ground black pepper, and some herbes (I like using herbes de provence for roasts). Then I mix that up, lightly coat the roast all over with the mixture, and pop it in the oven at 350 for about 1/2 hour.


We've also had bison sausage to eat cold and it is very good. The meat tastes a little stronger, but the texture is fabulous in the roasts.


There is a lot of great information here:


http://www.bisoncentral.com/index.php?s=&c=67&d=99&a=1056&w=2&r=Y


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Registered: 10-28-2006
Thu, 11-16-2006 - 4:30pm
The weirdest meat I have ever eaten, brace yourself, is frogs legs. My grandmother always prepares them (fresh caught by my uncles) everytime we go visit her. My mother grew up on them! I can't bring myself to eat them as an adult, but I remember eating them through childhood. And everyone would fight over them too...who gets the leftovers!!! Yuck huh? And they taste like chicken too, right down to the greasyness.
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 11-16-2006 - 5:21pm

OK....I have to stop reading this thread, lol-- it's beginning to gross me out. Sorry to all of you who appreciate 'game' and frog legs and stuff.....not for me. I'm so lame!


LOL

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Thu, 11-16-2006 - 8:56pm
"grainy" when referring to meat is kind of hard to explain. It's a taste and texture all rolled into one.

 

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Registered: 08-16-2005
Fri, 11-17-2006 - 5:54am

Grainy like the hotdogs they used to feed you in public school lunchrooms

BLECH!!!!

Smile,

Deirdre

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Fri, 11-17-2006 - 12:22pm

LOL, this thread is hilarious. I wouldn't mind giving frogs legs a go, but I don't know that I'd want to eat them off the bone, because I think the visuals is what throws me off.


I have tried alligator when I was in New Orleans, which wasn't bad. It was all spiced up, so the taste of the meat was secondary to the dish.


And Cher, I will say a big GROAN out to you for your game-y response. LOL


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Registered: 10-28-2006
Sun, 11-19-2006 - 11:21pm
Talk about a visual: My Aunt newly married to my uncle was hosting a dinner for my whole family. She wanted everything to be perfect. My uncle wanted her to make the famous frogs legs. She was totally disgusted but a good sport and agreed to make them. All the sudden from the kitchen everyone hears her screaming and a tray falling to the floor. Everyone rushes in to see what the problem is. The frogs legs that indeed look like legs (you pull the meat off the bones after it's cooked) are jumping off the oven pan and my Aunt is going to pass out. Turns out there is a nerve in the leg that must be removed or when the legs are heated up and then cooled something triggers the nerve to make the legs start to jump (severed from the body). Well someone forgot to tell my Aunt to remove the nerve when she was preparing them and she thought they were possessed or something. LOL. That story has been retold at *every* holiday gathering since. My poor Aunt!
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Registered: 12-04-2003
Mon, 11-20-2006 - 12:13pm

ROTFL!


That is hilarious!!!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 11-20-2006 - 7:10pm
I wrote the other day that I had to stop reading this thread....it was getting a little too "visual" for me.....but yet again I was coaxed in. Glad I was- that was too funny. Your poor aunt! LOL
~IG

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