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Jerky is considered one of the first convenience foods in America. These nutritious dried meat strips sustained many a hungry cowboy and traveler on the plains of the western part of United States. Dried chile flakes are the traditional seasoning for jerky. They not only flavor the meat, but also help preserve it, which the Indians discovered many years ago. Chiles contain an anti-oxident that prevents meat, and meat fat, from turning rancid as it is drying in the sun. The chiles also help in warding off insects and birds through the drying process. Even today, along the Rio Grande River Valley of New Mexico, Pueblo Indians make venison jerky. The whole process matches the beginning of deer hunting...

The most important thing to remember when making meat loaf is to use healthy and fresh ingredients. It is essential that you buy organic meat free of preservatives, growth hormones, dyes, and chemicals. Believe it or not organic meat is also tastier than grocery store meat. Also try to buy as many other organic ingredients for your meat loaf as you can. What exactly is meat loaf? It is a mixture of ground beef, milk, soup, and eggs. In fact, the first recipe for meat loaf was recorded in 1899, although meat loaf has been around much longer than that. Types of Meat Loaf: There are many, many different recipes for meat loaf. We will start with a traditional recipe for meat loaf. For more details login...

I am a ground meat lover. I love hamburgers, meatloaves and more. I do rotate between ground beef and ground turkey when I cook as my daughter prefers the poultry over the beef. While I love to cook, I also like to prepare dinner in under an hour, eat and then have the rest of the evening to do the things I want to do. I'd like to share three ground meat recipes with you, all that my family loves. I remember having meatloaf as a child. It was one of my least favorite meals. Then about a year ago, my dad was in the hospital and the cafeteria served a turkey meatloaf. It was excellent. I knew I wanted to try and make this at home. What I ended up with was a Parmesan meatloaf that we loved. I do use...

There is a variety of small kitchen appliance Meat Grinders on the market, from electric grinders with sausage stuffer attachments to the crank by hand style for basic meat grinding. This last model usually comes with a selection of grinding heads from fine to coarse grinding. You can even buy packets of seasonings ready to use for various sausage types. Choose the small kitchen appliance meat grinder/stuffer that suits your pocketbook the best. Some grinders come with sausage stuffer attachments, or you can buy each type separately. You’ll find a substantial difference between homemade and store bought breakfast sausage. Once you’ve tasted homemade, you’ll never buy the...

When one thinks of sausage, the usual first thought is of sausage as an ingredient for transforming a marinara tomato sauce into a rich tasting tomato gravy for pasta. Brown the sausage in a little olive oil using a large pot, add the pureed tomatoes into the same pot, and cook covered for an hour. After this is when to add tomato paste for thickening, stir, cover again, and let simmer for a few hours more. Most chefs advise using tongs when cooking sausages to not pierce them in order to retain their flavorful juices, but this is the exception to the rule where piercing with a fork allows those juices to be absorbed into the tomatoes for some slow cooking magic. Occasionally stir during the hours...

s ever asked a question as to what is your favourite non vegetarian food, without batting an eyelid, I would reply Chicken. Chicken is the meat procured from chicken(hen). It is the most common type of poultry in the world, and used in various forms to be relished and consumed. It is believed to be easily digestible. Chicken can be cooked in many ways. It can be made into sausages, put in salads, grilled, made into sandwiches and deep-fried, or used in many delicious curries. Today, chickens are also cooked by deep frying and prepared as fast food as fried chicken, chicken nuggets or chicken wings. Pork is the meat from the domestic pig. From pork, if processed we get ham and bacon. Pork is a taboo...

Imagine the woods at five o'clock in the morning. The sun has yet to rise above the horizon and there is a slight chilly bite in the air. A hunter has been tracking wild elk for a couple days and now waits down wind and in a tree with rifle in hand. He sits motionless, his legs starting to cramp as they are wrapped around a limb twenty feet up. His patience is rewarded as a bull with a mighty rack comes into view. The hunter steadies his aim and with a shot that shatters the peace of the forest, the elk falls and the hunt comes to end. The hunter approaches the elk, pays his respects, and secures the elk for the trip back home. The meat has been cleaned and stored, and dinner time is approaching...

Many people have been taught that if any meat, but beef is pink you are not supposed to eat it. The reason that all of us are told is that the pink meat means that the poultry, lamb, or pork is not cooked all the way through, which can cause us to get sick because any of the bacteria that is present in the food has not been killed. Of course, with pork, the color pink is a sign that the meat has not been cooked all the way through, but with poultry, the meat being pink does not mean that it is not safe to eat. In order to tell if poultry is safe enough to eat you will need to use a meat thermometer to ensure the poultry is cooked to a minimum temperature of 165 degrees, all the way through, so you...

It cannot be stressed just how important meat has been in both human evolution and human history. Meat allowed us to evolve large brains by giving us a high-engergy, high-protein food source that was easy to digest (the trade-off for our big brains was a shrinking of the length of the gut). Meat allowed our hunter-gatherer ancestors the luxury of lots of idle time. Time to tell stories, to be artistic and to invent. The domestication of animals let to meat on demand and from that grew specialization in tasks which allowed diversification of the jobs human did and the beginnings of civilization. It's the consuming of meat that made human culture possible. Yet, as Europe moved into the Middle Ages, as...

The great American burger comes in many different flavor varieties that range from plain to wild and exotic. When having burger night, you can spice things up a bit by making one of these delicious burger recipes. They are easy to make and yet add enough of a twist to create a new favorite in your burger eating meals. Best Bacon Swiss Burgers In a skillet, cook four slices of bacon until nice and crisp. Remove from heat, drain and crumble into a small bowl. You'll need to heat up a grill (or skillet) for cooking the hamburger patties. In a medium sized bowl, combine one pound of ground beef, the crumbled bacon, 1 1/2 teaspoons of chopped up fresh thyme, or 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme, 1/2 teaspoon...

Summer is here and if you are anything like me, you don't want to turn on your oven or stove unless absolutely necessary. I do most of my cooking in the microwave during the summer months. It helps keep my home cooler and cuts down on my cooling bill. I have found that many people don't like to cook meat in the microwave. I was once one of those people. Chicken would come out like rubber and I always worried that ground beef didn't cook thoroughly. I have since found that the trick is to use the right cooking utensils. There has also been some hype about how its not safe to use plastic to cook meat or anything else in the microwave. This is only half true. Certain types of plastic have chemicals...

There are two great reasons to have a Superbowl party and they are the game itself and the food that goes with it. Superbowl party recipes traditionally tend to be meat-based and there is plenty of choice when it comes to the best Superbowl recipes to serve. Chicken wings, mini hamburgers, meat-feast pizza squares, ham and cheese appetizers, chili con carne and fried chicken drumsticks are all popular Superbowl party food but what else could you make if you wanted to make something a bit different? Ultra Meaty Superbowl Snacks Superbowl Sunday is not a day to hold back. If you fancy sticky spareribs or honeyed chicken wings or a deep dish pepperoni pizza, it is the perfect time to treat your taste...

Summer is here and if you are anything like me, you don't want to turn on your oven or stove unless absolutely necessary. I do most of my cooking in the microwave during the summer months. It helps keep my home cooler and cuts down on my cooling bill. I have found that many people don't like to cook meat in the microwave. I was once one of those people. Chicken would come out like rubber and I always worried that ground beef didn't cook thoroughly. I have since found that the trick is to use the right cooking utensils. There has also been some hype about how it’s not safe to use plastic to cook meat or anything else in the microwave. This is only half true. Certain types of plastic have chemicals...

When you think of spring and summer, surely you think of smoking, grilling and tasty barbeque. When the season comes, you'll want to be ready to nurture you outdoor cooking talents. To do this, you'll need the right equipment. For those juicy meats, the stainless steel smoker is the perfect choice. Easy to use with minimal clean up, these smokers give you the very best in durable outdoor cookware. Stainless steel smokers are available in electric, propane or gas, and charcoal. You can get them in standard and simple designs, or modern and innovative designs, and you can even find stainless steel smoker boxes, built-ins, and smoker ovens. You can find them in several sizes, from convenient portable...

I have been a fan of food smokers for many years and I have owned several, however nothing I have ever owned, can hold a candle to the cutting edge modern smokers of today. The smoker that I currently own is a Bradley Technologies smoker. The particular model that I own is called the "Jim Beam". It is an electric, 4 rack, self contained digital smoker with an automatic feed for the wood chips which are referred to as bisquettes. They are compressed "patties" of wood that rather resemble a hockey puck. They are inserted into a smoke chamber which funnels the smoke to the food compartment and they are dispensed at an interval of 1 every 20 minutes. This self feed feature makes smoking almost a no...

Hog casings are by far the most popular variety for the commercial and home sausage maker alike. They have clean bite, a satisfying snap, a pleasing color that cannot be matched by any other variety. For those who are new to sausage making or have never had experience natural casings, the thought of buying and handling hog casings can be intimidating. Fear not. This quick primer will make you wonder why you were worried in the first place. What are hog casings? Hog casings are the intestines, bladders, or caecums of pigs. What can I expect when using hog casings? Natural hog casing is slippery and delicate, thus requiring a little more skill to handle than their collagen counterparts. But with some...

here are three answers to this question and the one can be found already in the first step of sausage making - the meat selection process. Good meat cuts make good meat products, everybody knows that. 1. Meat quality. The flavor of the meat, especially the pig, depends on its diet. If the animal eats a lot of barley its meat is firm and fat. If the same pig will be fed with corn, its meat will be softer and fatter. Meat of pigs that were fed with kitchen meal leftovers or fed mainly with potatoes or beets, will contain more water in it. Famous Spanish Serrano hams even today are still made from pigs that graze freely on grass and eat a lot of oak acorns. Change that diet and you will change the...

Venison is the name of the meat made from a variety of deer species of meat and can be eaten in the form of steaks, roasts, or sausages. Talking about deer sausage, it comes in either fresh sausage, meaning without curing salt; cured which contains some sort of curing mixture or salt; the dried form which means no cooking was done or even semi-dry such as the smoked sausages. Now we will see how to cook deer sausage. The recipes are infinite including applying methods such as frying, broiling, smoking or baking. Since the meat is fat-free, hence it is usually needs the pork as a flavoring and fat enhancement. The tools required to cook deer sausages are a large mixing bowl, a refrigerator, an oven...

Deer hunting season is over and you have venison to deal with. What do you do? Here is what my hunters do. The venison should be left to age for 10-14 days in temperature between 35-42 degrees without the hide before processing. If the temperature is warmer than that the meat is cut up and refrigerated, canned in jars or frozen. Some is ground up for burger. Some is made into sausage after the steaks and roasts are cut. The tenderloin rarely makes it to the freezer as it is the easiest and quickest to cook. I slice it into 1-inch pieces, butterfly it and fry it up with onions and mushrooms. Venison burger mixed with ground pork is delicious. I never mix the two together before freezing as venison...

Whether you are a beginner cook or just looking for some handy hints about preparing and cooking meat, it is always useful to learn new tricks. This is not a difficult ingredient to cook with but there are some timesaving tricks you can use if you want to make the best recipes. First of all, did you know that meats and chicken are easier to slice thinly if they are semi-frozen? Wrap your chicken or meat in plastic wrap and pop it into the freezer for fifteen minutes. You will really notice the difference when you cut it. Use the sharpest knife you have to make perfect slices and always cut meats against the grain unless the recipe tells you otherwise. Ground beef tends to produce a lot of fat when...

Big Sausage Pizzas are best! Pizza is an Italian cuisine. Pizza is generally made up of bread and on the top portion of it chopped onion, tomato, capsicum is omitted. Usual toppings which used for pizza are tomato sauce and cheese. Pizza is very popular and famous dish all over the world. Nowadays so many ingredients are used for toppings on pizza. It includes tomato ketchup or sauce, cheese, garlic, vegetables like onion, tomato, capsicum, sweet corn, chicken, beef, meat etc. All over the world, pizza is being eaten. Non vegetarian also finds various types of pizzas in restaurant. In Italy, Sausage pizza is most popular. Sausage is a kind of food that gradually includes animal fats, ground meat...

The old world, or old country, for many people means a place where their ancestors came from. The majority of Americans came from some far off distant land in search of something new. However, despite the new atmosphere many people continued carry on their ethnic heritage through food. Not only did food from the old world remind people of the place they came from, but also of a former and a more gracious period when things were a little simpler. Many foods can be traced to a certain place and ethnicity, such as desserts and side dishes, but most especially meats. While meat is used many different ways to create classic unique main dishes one style of meat has been carried down through the...

Sausages are and always have been a great aliment. Highly nutritious and rich in protein they are great for the winter. There is no other better way to preserve the meat over longer periods of time. Then by transforming it in sausages. Th best recipe using sausages is the polish sausage. So let's learn how to cook polish sausage. The way you cook it is very similar to the way how to cook fresh venison sausage. The first step is to let the sausage stay in cold water. So put cold fresh water in a bowl. A few ounces should suffice. Deep all the sausages you want to use into the water. Let them sink in there for about 2 hours. This way they will be fresh. Don't let them in the water too much because you...

If a fine cut of steak, cooked very well done (or just well done) and blackened sets your mouth to watering, know too that every bite of charred meat may up your risk of pancreatic cancer. This according to some new research. When you grill, fry or barbeque meat to the point of charring, carcinogens can be formed on the surface where they wait to be taken into your body with that first bite. This study adds to earlier work by this same University of Minnesota team that found an association between pancreatic cancer and the cancer causing compounds that form on red meat during the cooking process. Cooking meats at very high temperatures creates compounds (heterocyclic amines, or HAs) that come from...

It is surprising to find out how many folks absolutely have no idea that there is a better tactic to fat loss than the old-school bland and boring bodybuilding diet way. There are a ton of healthy meal recicpe options out there besides boring chicken, broccoli, and brown rice. This old school bodybuilding fat loss diet methodology just isn't required or helpful. Plus, if you eat the same foods each day, you can create nutrient deficiencies because you will not obtain the nutrients that you would normally get by having a more balanced diet. Here is a healthy meal recipe that is not only tasty, but loaded with a ton of nutrients as well. Enjoy! Grilled Chicken Sausage Tostadas Ingredients: -Pam...

Although jalapenos are very popular in Texas cooking these days, they are not considered a traditional Tex-Mex. Ancho chiles, used in this chorizo sausage recipe, were the original favorite chile of the state. Ancho peppers are usually the main ingredient in any chile powder. Mexican settlers flavored their sausages with chile peppers and other seasonings. German settlers in Texas flavored theirs with smoke. With this chipotle chorizo recipe you get the best of both flavors. It is made with smoky chopotle chile. Ingredients: 4 dried red ancho or New Mexican chiles, or both 1 1/2 pounds ground pork 1/2 cup minced onion 1/3 cup cider vinegar 5 garlic cloves, chopped fine 2 canned chipotle chiles...

A key element of Swedish Christmas celebrations is the food. Christmas ham or Julskinka is traditionally served on Christmas Eve as part of the festivities. Often the dinner may be a smorgasbord which includes Christmas ham(julskinka), pickled herrings (sild), Christmas sausage (potatis korv), potato salad, pickled cabbage and a range of cooked meats. As Christmas Eve is the time when Swedes celebrate Christmas and open their presents this is the most important meal of the holiday. Christmas Sausage or Potatis Korv Serves 8 - 2 pounds ground lean pork - 2 pounds ground lean beef - 6 medium raw potatoes, shredded - 3 teaspoons salt - 2 teaspoons ground allspice - 1/2 teaspoon pepper - 1 medium onion...

Have you ever tasted a homemade sausage? If you have you will want to make your own and here is how to do it. Ingredients Meat - We use pork belly diced into half inch cubes but other cuts such as the hand are also widely used Rusk - This is the seasoning which can contain a variety of herbs and spices to give the sausage flavour. A traditional rusk is mate up of pepper, salt, thyme and hops. Rusk is mix is available to buy or can be made to suit your own sausage style and taste. Skins - Natural skins are intestines and will be in brine when bought, you will need to soak your skins overnight to remove the salt or you will end up with one very salty sausage. Measures 5.5LB of meat 2 .30 cups of rusk...

This tangy appetizer features three kinds of sausage, barbecue sauce and pineapple. 1 (1 pound) pkg. miniature smoked sausages 3/4 pound fully cooked bratwurst 3/4 pound smoked kielbasa or Polish sausage 1 (18 oz.) bottle barbecue sauce 2/3 cup orange marmalade 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice 1 (20 oz.) can pineapple chunks, drained Directions In a 3-quart slow cooker, combine the sausages. In a small bowl, whisk the barbecue sauce, marmalade, mustard and allspice. Pour over sausage mixture; stir to coat well. Cover and cook on high for 2-1/2 to 3 hours or until heated through. Stir in the pineapple. Serve with toothpicks. Fried Ham Cubes These ham appetizers are delicious...

Does your husband keep bringing home venison and asking you to do something with it? Most of the "hunting widows" I know have no idea what to do with the meat, so they make the same stew or chili over and over. That can get pretty boring pretty quick. When my husband started hunting seriously and I found myself with 200lbs of venison in the freezer, I decided I needed to figure out some fun things to do with it. I've made a lot of recipes, and here are the five easiest ways I've found to prepare the meat. 1. Burgers Venison burgers are amazing, and they are so lean and healthy. Grilled, broiled, with cheese or with out...it's all good. So if you don't have a meat grinder, invest in one. (We use an...

Most people don't realize just how easy canning venison can be. Works for canning elk too. I remember checking out what would be involved with canning the wild game my guys brought home from hunting camp. I could not believe it would be as easy as the information I was finding made it out to be. Cut it up, put it in a jar and pressure can it? Surely there is more to it than that! Well there is a little bit more.... but not much. I wish I would have started canning meat years ago. Each year I worried about having enough freezer space. When I started canning part of the meat we had, I freed up a lot of space for other things. I don't can all of this meat. You know just how much meat is on an...

Venison is meat from deer, as mostly everyone knows, but it is also meat from elk, antelope, moose, reindeer, and caribou. Currently, white-tail deer is the most hunted and most served type of venison in the United States. What is found most often in markets is South Texas antelope, which is native to the Himalayan foothills. These antelope were brought to Texas a few decades ago, and now live on the range land of the largest ranch in the country, the King Ranch in South Texas. Large herds are regularly harvested from the ranch. They produce a very lean meat that tastes a little like veal. Venison has very little fat, so it is necessary to make some simple adjustments to the way you normally cook...

"body"> Some negotiators just love to play tactical games. In this article we will look at one their favourite negotiation tactics - the Salami technique - and think about how to rebuff it. Salami sausages are big things (often spicy) that are eaten a slice at a time. They would be indigestible if taken in a single large piece. This aspect has led negotiators to use the name for a negotiation technique that tries to do just that: to win concessions in small doses (slices) when the other party would probably reject them if they were put on the table all at once. The technique is often used against a party that is mainly concerned with damage limitation. Consider a tough union negotiating with...

Every year at the end of October, I receive requests from hunters wanting to know how to process venison. They want different ways to take care of the deer besides the usual butcher shop or sausage maker ways. Bringing the venison to someone to have it processed is the typical thing to do. Everything is done for you and you pay by the pound and take it home to your freezer. I come from a family of hunters and we have done venison the old way for years. When people taste my venison they always want to learn how it is made. I usually invite them over to assist in the process. Hands on experience is the only way to learn something new. Once they help they are able to do it themselves. Years ago when...