Have a heart!

[Angry Perch]

Fresh blacktail heart from yesterday. Trimmed off fat and arteries.
Sectioned into chambers, trimmed the inside, and cut into strips.
Seasoned with salt, pepper, fresh garlic and rosemary, and tossed
in a ziplock with olive oil and balsamic. Will marinate for a day,
then go on a screaming hot grill just long enough to get a little char.

[The Weazle]

That looks really good!

[Skillet]

Did I miss a success thread??

[pd]

Beautiful meat.

[Angry Perch]

Did I miss a success thread??

Did I miss a success thread??

I didn't feel like another Tree Farm spike needed his own thread!

[Stein]

Awesome.  I would trade heart pound for pound for backstrap every day of the week.  I have also been known to stop by and ask guys if they were taking their heart out of gut piles.

[Angry Perch]

Just threw a couple strips on bamboo skewers
and grilled them just until warm in the middle.
Wife and I are in heaven. Also had a few pieces
of liver and some tenderloin chunks. I love the
first couple days after a successful deer hunt.

[Brushcrawler]

Best part of the whole animal!

[RB]

Awesome! 

[Skillet]

Did I miss a success thread??

Did I miss a success thread??

I didn't feel like another Tree Farm spike needed his own thread!

He is getting his own thread, one piece at a time. 

Looks really good man.

[Angry Perch]

Speaking of deer parts, he was so full of food, he looked bloated.
I was afraid he'd explode when I opened him up. This is his stomach
With my size 13 boot for reference. Is this normal?

[OutHouse]

Something popped that's for sure; that green stuff in the pic is stomach or intestinal matter. Couldn't of smelled good!

[Angry Perch]

Something popped that's for sure; that green stuff in the pic is stomach or intestinal matter. Couldn't of smelled good!

After I got it out on the ground, my curiosity got the best of me. I probably wont do that again!

[Special T]

I have also been known to stop by and ask guys if they were taking their heart out of gut piles.

And I've been known to cut the tounge out of buddies deer and elk also...   my hinting buddy swears by less than day old liver... I promised him I would try...

[NRA4LIFE]

Good job AP.  I love me some heart.  Wife thinks it's disgusting, but I slip a bit into the sausage regularly....  I got a monster moose heart in the freezer.  Might try something like that.

[Blacklab]

Oh such a big fan of breaded pan fried heart. I tried to share some with my huntin buddy. He said oh hell no! I don't eat organs 

[lokidog]

Good job AP.  I love me some heart.  Wife thinks it's disgusting, but I slip a bit into the sausage regularly....  I got a monster moose heart in the freezer.  Might try something like that.

Mine was over five pounds of wonderous delight, and I got to eat it mostly myself... until my son found out how good it was anyways.   

[boneaddict]

I've never been a fan of heart. Thankfully I usually destroy it.  However, I've never prepared it like you did.  I'm going to have to try it if I get the chance.

[Whitpirate]

My son and I have fights over who gets the heart.  My wife and youngest think we are crazy.  Love skewered and grilled but still love the old breaded butter fried.  Give me some whitetail heart, a pocket full of Shaggy Mane mushrooms and a little can of evaporated milk to make some gravy with the pan drippings and I'm suddenly 13 and in my Grandmother's kitchen.

[boneaddict]

Those are some of the greatest memories.

[Angry Perch]

My son and I have fights over who gets the heart.  My wife and youngest think we are crazy.  Love skewered and grilled but still love the old breaded butter fried.  Give me some whitetail heart, a pocket full of Shaggy Mane mushrooms and a little can of evaporated milk to make some gravy with the pan drippings and I'm suddenly 13 and in my Grandmother's kitchen.

That sounds fantastic.

[pianoman9701]

I've never been a fan of heart. Thankfully I usually destroy it.  However, I've never prepared it like you did.  I'm going to have to try it if I get the chance.

 

[pianoman9701]

I love heart, liver, kidneys, and testicles. I like how you prepared the heart. Most of the people I know who eat meat but don't like the heart have had it way overcooked. It needs to be served rare and I, too, like to give it a quick char. I've never separated the chambers; just sliced across it. I'll try that the next time.

[Boss .300 winmag]

That heart recipe sounds good, I haven't really tried heart.

[kellama2001]

I love eating the heart! Your recipe sounds amazingly good! During last elk camp I took a fresh mule deer heart, cleaned and cored it like a bell pepper. Then took chopped Apple, onion, minced garlic and salt and pepper and stuffed it. I then rubbed the exterior with a mushroom/sage olive oil and wrapped it in foil. Cooked it to a medium rare on the bbq, sliced and enjoyed! (Disclosure: I found the recipe on Steve Rinellas website) even my buddy who swears he hates organ meat thought it was good and ate more than I wanted him to 

[Twispriver]

I usually cube the heart in 1/2" chunks and make no-bean chili out of it. Fried or grilled is ok but not my favorite. I am also a big fan of elk tongue but I always leave the liver in the gut pile.

[wheels]

one of my favorite  cuts

[Pegasus]

You guys are missing one of the best parts of your deer or elk. Just throw the heart after cleaning into a pot(soak first in heavily salted cold water and remove blood clots to clean). Add several large onions that have been sliced. Add salt. Add pepper. Add some cloves of garlic. Fill the pot with water and simmer slowly for several hours. The longer, the better. Eat it hot or after it is cooled. Slice it for sandwiches. If you use this easy recipe you will NEVER let another venison heart go to waste again. You can also add a few other spices that you like to the simmering water if you like. Please don't waste this important part of your game. Works great in hunting camp and you can drink the broth also unless you put too much salt into the mix. Works for beef heart also.

[whackmaster]

Wow AP that looks so good

[Angry Perch]

Wow AP that looks so good

Thanks! It really is an amazing treat. Probably the best part is that my wife did not grow up eating game, and was more than a bit suspect. Now she texts me when I'm out hunting asking if we're having liver and heart for dinner!

[lokidog]

Wow AP that looks so good

Thanks! It really is an amazing treat. Probably the best part is that my wife did not grow up eating game, and was more than a bit suspect. Now she texts me when I'm out hunting asking if we're having liver and heart for dinner!

   Can't get mine to eat the hearts, no problem with this on my end though as there's more for me.

[KillerBeee]

Love it....I clean mine the same. Trim fat, open chambers, remove connective tissue, and slice. Skewer or sear, if seared deglaze pan with hearty red wine and more butter, add pre-sauteed mushrooms and onions. Reduce mixture and serve it on the side of the heart meat. Awesome!

[NRA4LIFE]

I also love it pickled with some onions and garlic.  Delicious.  Par boil it with some pickling spices and soak a couple weeks in a vinegar brine, onions and garlic.  Serve on crackers or crusty bread. 

[HighlandLofts]

Speaking of deer parts, he was so full of food, he looked bloated.
I was afraid he'd explode when I opened him up. This is his stomach
With my size 13 boot for reference. Is this normal?

My son shot a buck last year and set his trail camera up on the gun pile to see what would be scavenging on it.
The first thing that came to it was other deer smelling it and checking it out.
Then the crows found it they were feeding on it until it was gone,
Then the coyotes found it and eat on it in the night time hours, one of them was missing a front leg.
A fisher eat on it two seperate times and a fox visited it once.
So even the gut pile goes on to feed other animals, not much goes to waste.


I have a couple of beef hearts in the freezer, I need to take one out and try some of it your way.