Bison Stew

Saliha

Saliha

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From Cherokee friend called Jen

:in_love:

* 1 lb of Bison (If you don't have a wild bison, use lean beef)
* 1 teaspoon of baking powder
* 4 Potatoes
* 1/2 teaspoon of salt
* 1 Medium Onion
* A pinch of sugar gives the bread a yummy taste and makes it softer.
* 2 Tablespoons of Oil
* Milk
* Seasoning Salt
* Oil
* Tomato sauce or jarred spaghetti sauce (fresh chopped tomatoes is better)
* For the bread crust (same as Fry Bread)
* 1 cup of Flour


Directions

Heat the oil in a Stew Pot, chop the Onions add to heated oil. Cook for a couple of minutes.

Rinse your stew meat add to the Onions add the seasoning salt to taste and add tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce stir well covering all the meat add 1/2 cup of water get it boiling let cook for about 30 minutes add the potatoes, cover and let cook through.

Then make your bread crust. Mix all the dry ingredients together then add your liquids make a soft dough roll out on a floured surface when 30 minutes has past take Stew off the stove let it cool and let the dough rest for about 10 minutes then put your stew in a casserole and top with the rolled out dough. Bake for about 20 - 30 minutes. It is ssssoooo good especially in the Winter nice and warm.
 
Saliha - Sadly, the biggest pot of Bison Stew we find in this country is the fact that during the winter, when the food in Yellowstone National Park is sparse and the Bison wander outside the confines of the park foraging for food, the states surrounding the Park move in on them and slaughters them. Bison are endangered and should be protected - and it's not happening as it should be. There are several organizations who are working together to try and lobby these states to allow the Bison to graze free of harm on public land - hopefully, the laws will be changed in time to save these magnificent animals from extinction.

Ian M.
 
Venison (deer meat) is always available here - on NCT there are a number of members who are avid deer hunters. I'm sure they would be happy to share some of their wonderful recipes for cooking venison. I've seen several such recipes here not too long ago. Venison Chile is always a winner in my family - both of my brothers are hunters and both of them make wonderful venison chili, too. Over time, I've learned to like it. Game meat such as venison has to be specially handled in order to get the best taste and I've no idea how to cook it. I do know it requires a lot of salting and soaking, though.

Beef is always a good choice. Lots of wonderful recipes on the Forum for things done with beef. Please do share some of your recipes for cooking beef the Finnish way. In Ireland, the usual meat of choice is usually lamb or mutton. That, I know how to cook. I can get around beef pretty well, too.

Ian M. :)
 
actually (need to double check) but in USA the bison are not listed as protected or endangered - which is part of the problem...?

I triggered my old faded brain cells because I recall watching a program year(s)? back and was surprised that they were not protected in any fashion.

I've seen ground bison in our market; not noticed whole cuts tho.

it was however a very good day for the whales.
 
bison is widely available near me. grocers sell various forms. very lean, & rather yummy.
 
Chowderman - Fallon and I are getting inundated with information from a couple of environmental groups who are fighting for legislation to protect Bison and the latest said that at least one state (Idaho, I think, but don't quote me on that) has gotten permission from their state legislature to round up any Bison they find outside of Yellowstone Park and slaughter them for whatever purpose. In quite a bit of the information that keeps coming to us via the internet, I've several times seen statements to the effect that legislation to protect Bison is dangerously lacking and they're nearing the possible extinction of some varieties of these creatures. CM, I think you're right that presently there's simply no Federal legislation to protect them in any way. Fallon and I have been firing off letters to high-ranking types in three states and to our own Federal representatives to take some definitive steps in this regard - not that it's made any noticeable difference to date. Signing petitions and writing letters is probably the most that many people can do and most likely does the least good to help with resolution of environmental problems. Sad!

Incidentally, simply because something tastes good doesn't necessarily mean we ought to eat it if there isn't going to be a whole lot of it around in the foreseeable future. Sorry Luvs, I don't mean to come off like I'm in any way targeting what you posted but it's kind of a hot button issue with both my wife and me - the unfortunate and wanton misuse of natural resources and wildlife. And the fact that so little is being done about it.................

Ian M. :sorry:
 
...sigh.... got involved with an individual who promptly disappeared then reappeared after months and months, waning to 'pick up' the business relationship. yeah, right. or better said: wrong - don't call me I'll call you.

in the throes of the depression he was buying up bankrupt golf courses and turning them into "bison pasture land." if you think on that for a bit, you can understand why I never did call him again.....

so fars as I can eddicate meself - there's plains bison, woods bison, and a small population of 'truly wild' bison. seems some genius decided cross breeding wild bison with domesticated cattle was a good idea.

because / / / / now.....true, wild bison have a reputation for being, uh,,,, errrrr, 'difficult' to manage / control - is there some part of "wild" I missed?

anyway, none of these "groups" of bison appear to be 'listed' in any manner. on the bright side, the reproduction/survival rate appears to be quite splendid - so hopefully despite the best laid plans of men and idiots, they'll multiple and prosper.....
 
CM - I sincerely hope that your research proves to be more accurate than that which has been emailed to us recently by the Environmental lobby! I'd truly hate to think that an animal which, thanks mostly to the Native Americans in the West and Southwest, and is today an American icon, could one day cease to be around. Fallon actually is more conversant with the problems of the Bison than I am. My interest has been mostly with the troubles of the wolves, both grey and red, in the same areas. I know wolves can become almighty pests, killing livestock and so forth, but the wholesale slaughter of them by sharpshooters who fire on them from planes above them, just like fish in a barrel, really, is pretty bad in my opinion and I've written a number of letters and signed a lot of petitions to have the practice curtailed by law once and for all. Entire packs are being wiped out and it's so sad and unnecessary.

Just to paraphrase what you said, CM, may the Bison live long and perspire!! I understand that they get rather rank in hot weather......... There's a place not too far from where we live that has a couple of buffalo for people to come and see and I can tell you - they can sure smell noxious. Don't believe I'd really want to eat anything that smells like that.

Ian M.
 
Ian M. said:
Chowderman - Sorry Luvs, I don't mean to come off like I'm in any way targeting what you posted but it's kind of a hot button issue with both my wife and me - the unfortunate and wanton misuse of natural resources and wildlife. And the fact that so little is being done about it.................

Ian M. :sorry:
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fret not. meat is, to me, dinner, & to another, a cause. so be that. i luv food of many sorts. bison would be 1, as would be veggies.
 
>>>.... more accurate than that which has been emailed to us recently by the....

BIG CLUE.

do carefully check the size and type of axe being ground prior to acceping 'stuff' as real actual fact.
 
>>duck?

not necessarily.

it's simply that there are many many groups "publishing" stuff that gets pretty "out there" at times. usually pays to do some research on one's own - I'm sure you get those wonderful emails time to time with things too good to be true - there are people who actually believe some/all the stuff simply because "it's on the Internet! You can look it up!"
 
Yeah, I say "duck" advisedly - in order to avoid getting hit in the head by any of the load of tosh that's being tossed about all around me - and some, not so subtley, AT me! I'm not such a misanthrope that I mistrust out of hand everything or eveyone I read or hear just because it doesn't happen to coincide with exactly what I, personally believe but I do appreciate the advice and will attempt to do lots of "research", particularly if I happen to wander into the space of self-proclaimed "experts".

Thanks, Ian M.
 
I’ve been reading all of the talk about saving the Bison, or Buffalo as we call them, and called a supplier of Buffalo meat to supermarkets for some information.
I’ll get back to that later, but first I would like to say that my wife and I spent the entire summer of 2007 as volunteers at Devils Tower in Wyoming. We only worked 4 days a week getting Friday Saturday and Sundays off, so we got to explore the area quite a bit. We also made a trip west of Devils Tower to see Yellowstone and Grand Teton National parks. Between the two National Parks and Custer State Park in South Dakota I can firmly say that there is no real shortage of wild Buffalos. We saw Thousands (yes that is with at least 4 zeros). In the parks it was, st times, difficult to drive an auto because of them. Now back to the supplier of Buffalo meat. I was told that all of the meat sold in supermarkets and served in restaurants is from FARM, or as the case may be, RANCH raised Buffalo. Raised just like cattle and raised to be slaughter and sold as meat. These are not wild animals so don’t worry about us killing off the wild buffalos. At one time there was very few of them, but not there are not that rare to see them in western parks and national lands.
 
Ian -

not tossing anything at anyone. my apologies if it came across that way.
we're not at all far apart in the "treasure your wildlife" category.

the "Environmental lobby" is not specified - there's zillions of them that range from "real" to "one extremist's viewpoint" - if they are insisting bison are "endangered" - which carries the implication of an EPA / legal type "classification" the info is not accurate.

I do not understand why people - occupying thousands/tens of thousands of acres - find it necessary to kill a bison "because it crossed the line." if 2 million cross the line, I can see that could make a problem - but that's just not the case comma anymore.
 
Dawg - Much of what's been told me in recent times comes from my brother, John, who worked in Yellowstone Park as a volunteer during college. I would only defend what the bloody "experts" have written us by saying that both John and you were there during the high summer months when the food for these animals is plentiful and naturally you'd see a lot more of them than one does during the winter months. Another schoolmate of mine lives out in Idaho and has written us several times of the fate of animals who have wandered off the National Park land onto Federally owned Public land and it's not a pretty thing to hear. Yes, Fallon and I get upset over it - but the older I get the thinner my skin becomes over things like this and the more apt I am to see the dark side of the story when it's sent. The trick to getting on with the rank and file who don't accept the premise that animals have problems and rights, as well, is to simply not rise to the bait. I did, yesterday, and it's almost always a mistake. My collar gets red-hot when I do. Thanks for your input and thanks, too, to Chowderman who patiently stuck to his guns. He's a mighty good shot - and, truth to tell, well-informed, also. All I can say is "as you wish" in the matter about which we disagreed. I've been tempted to ask, a time or two when I encounter people who want to fight with us about our deely felt belief in conservation, if they eat roast bald eagle, too. But then, early this morning, on my way to keep an appointment , I happened to view a bald eagle roosting in a tree beside the Merrimack River and the person I was with said that fella calls that particular tree home and has for over a year. So I think there must be many of them around and I know they're no longer on the endangered list, although it remains illegal to hunt them or even have eagle feathers. It gives me hope for the animals who are on the bottom rung of public concern of people who care - or are misinformed as I have been, evidently.

Thank you both -

Ian M.
 
Ian -

any "group / newsletter" who constructs their own truth is doing a major dis-service to their "cause" - no matter what the cause and how worthy it may be.

eventually it all comes out in the wash and their credibility is destroyed. which is fine, there's certainly enough nut cases to go around.

BUT - frequently other "ethical" (for lack of a better word) organizations / movements that have similar cares get smeared with the same big broad brush.

that smarts.
 
Sad but too true and how does that sort of thing get stopped, I wonder? It happens with nearly everything that comes down the pike over which people get all hot and bothered. Some, who are emotionally driven (now there you have my wife and me) take it all too much to heart and the "word" gets spread that something's very wrong with whatever system. There are some things going on today that are too obvious to be distorted by the overzealous but other things which are on that lower rung I mentioned sort of get taken advantage of and people like us become pawns in the "game". Lesson learned for both Fallon and me!

I still won't eat Buffalo, though - I tried it once and found it stringy and tough - not to my liking at all. Undoubtedly badly cooked. Tasted awfully "gamey". I have a similar problem with most game meat - nice, tame, cow is the way to go for me. But I'd have to say that I didn't even eat that for quite a while after having made a visit to a packing plant out in Dubuque, Iowa once! That really got to me! Like finding out what's really in hot dogs.........

Thanks,

Ian :bonk:
 
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