| Imagine the woods at five o'clock in the morning. The | | | | weeks. Waste nothing, but after a month or two of |
| sun has yet to rise above the horizon and there is a | | | | nothing but cooked elk meat, dinner could get old pretty |
| slight chilly bite in the air. A hunter has been tracking | | | | quick. Fortunately, elk is just a flexible meat when it |
| wild elk for a couple days and now waits down wind | | | | comes to cooking. Stew, hamburgers, and stir-fly are |
| and in a tree with rifle in hand. He sits motionless, his | | | | some of the classic dishes that can be given a new |
| legs starting to cramp as they are wrapped around a | | | | taste with a bit of elk. Elk meat recipes can provide |
| limb twenty feet up. His patience is rewarded as a bull | | | | that invigorating change to dinner time staples. |
| with a mighty rack comes into view. The hunter | | | | Along with improving dinner, elk meat recipes are also |
| steadies his aim and with a shot that shatters the | | | | healthier for your family. Elk meat is low in fat and a |
| peace of the forest, the elk falls and the hunt comes | | | | great source of vitamins B6, B12, and riboflavin which |
| to end. The hunter approaches the elk, pays his | | | | play important roles in energy metabolism. Elk provides |
| respects, and secures the elk for the trip back home. | | | | a decent amount of potassium, protein, and a variety |
| The meat has been cleaned and stored, and dinner | | | | of minerals without going overboard in cholesterol. And |
| time is approaching. Now what? | | | | remember, elk meat has zero carbohydrates. At |
| Elks can weigh upwards to seven-hundred pounds | | | | one-hundred and thirty calories per four ounce serving, |
| and stand around five feet at the shoulder. That's a big | | | | elk meat will not make you feel bad about indulging |
| animal. When the trophy is secure and the pelt | | | | yourself. |
| removed, there is still a lot of meat that must be dealt | | | | Do not worry about fitting elk into your dinner rotation. |
| with. A true hunter only takes what he needs from | | | | Elk meat is easy to cook and behaves itself in the |
| nature, and next to that tradition is another: do not | | | | frying pan. Some wild animal meats burn too quickly or |
| waste anything. Never take the life of an animal then | | | | refuse to absorb the spices to enhance the flavor. Elk |
| leave it to rot. Well, I hope you have plenty of elk meat | | | | meat can be boiled, broil, fried, and deep-fried and |
| recipes, because that meat will last a while. | | | | come out retaining a taste as majestic as the elk truly |
| When people go shopping, they usually only pick up a | | | | is. Elk meat recipes might not take over your family's |
| few pounds of beef or chicken. With the meat of a | | | | cookbook, but you no doubt start a new chapter just |
| seven-hundred pound animal cut up and put into | | | | for elk. |
| storage, elk will be the central ingredient of dinner for | | | | |