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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2014, 11:18:02 PM »
Slow Cooked Bear Roast

Insert thin slices of garlic into knife holes made 1" to 2" apart all over the roast
Pour in 1 cup water
Sprinkle heavily with Johnnies Season Salt
Add 1/2 onion "3/16 thick slices"
Add 1/2 carrot, chopped in 1" pieces
Add 1/2 potato medium "1/4 inch thick slices"
Add 1/2 apple "3/16 thick slices"

Cook in 300 degree oven for 5-6 hours or cook in crockpot for 8 hours.
If desired, throw out all the veges 1-2 hours before finished and add new veges, that depends if you like soft or firmer veges. You may also want to use more veges which works fine too.
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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2014, 12:22:10 AM »
I like getting the hams smoked and cured at the butcher. Put in a crockpot with apple juice. Pull meat apart and cover with BBQ sauce. Makes great pulled bear sandwiches.  :tup:

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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2014, 04:38:25 AM »
I can't think of a bad meal I have ever had when eating a good bear.  And I can not think of a good meal that I have ever had made from a bad bear.  And you usually know whether you've shot a good bear or a bad bear within the first three seconds of field dressing it.

Probably my favorite is toasted bear ham sandwiches dipped into a nice buttery clam or crab chowder.  Next favorite is the old bachelor back strap medallions sliced thin, coated with flower, Johnny's and a little extra fresh ground pepper, fried in butter and olive oil.  Then covered with whole milk gravy made from the drippings.

Of all the wild game I've eaten good bear ranks very near the top.  Sheep, antelope (pronghorn and blackbuck), axis, and javalina are probably the only higher rated meats IMO :tup:
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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2014, 05:10:34 AM »
I can't think of a bad meal I have ever had when eating a good bear.  And I can not think of a good meal that I have ever had made from a bad bear.  And you usually know whether you've shot a good bear or a bad bear within the first three seconds of field dressing it.
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Being that I've never shot a bear before (  :'( ), I have to ask: what makes a bear bad or good?

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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2014, 07:18:41 AM »
I can't think of a bad meal I have ever had when eating a good bear.  And I can not think of a good meal that I have ever had made from a bad bear.  And you usually know whether you've shot a good bear or a bad bear within the first three seconds of field dressing it.
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Being that I've never shot a bear before (  :'( ), I have to ask: what makes a bear bad or good?

Bear, probably more than any other animal I've eaten, seems to take on the essence of their diet.  Sweet berries and they taste and smell sweet.  Skunk cabbage and trailer park garbage they smell like a honey pot at your hot summer golf course  :puke:  My dingo would not even eat a skunk cabbage bear.  And he thought he could survive by eating poop and licking his balls :o



The other thing is worms!  Most inland bear have connective tissue worms.  Doesn't effect much at all and well known to be beneficially edible. 

But some bear get parasitic worms so bad they are just devouring the bear alive.  Any bear that appears excessively skinny and/or has no sheen whatsoever to it's coat should be given serious thought before harvest.  These badly infested bear have an odor about them I can not really describe.  But it is definitely noticeable.

Upon field dressing you usually see tape worm and/or heavy concentration of round worm in the abdominal cavity.  These are much larger in diameter than the harmless connective tissue worms that are found where the muscle groups attach to bone.

Not only are these bear sick (which we should proceed with caution in consuming any sick animal) but they potentially carry Trichinella spiralis which is responsible for the disease trichinosis.  Many seaming healthy bear have this parasite as well.  Being the reason all bear hunters are advised to cook bear or wild boar meat to an internal temperature of 160 degrees.
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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2014, 07:30:08 AM »
RadSav, not to sidetrack the post, but I've never heard anything good about javelina?  What are your favorite ways of cooking it?  Please send me a pm if this is going to waylay this post, thanks!

Good bear recipes everyone!

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Re: what is your favorite bear meat recipie?
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2014, 07:30:19 AM »
backstraps hammered and grilled are delic. hindquater roasts in the crockpot. about 8hr. little beef broth, red wine, rub it down with some onion soup mix. green beans and radishes (no potato for me  :bash:)
pressure canned with a little onion, garlic and black pepper. makes it oh so tender, like its been slow cooked!
pepperoni, double jalepeno double cayenne.

 


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