Sep 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Moose Stew
Important issues . . . how would you make moose stew? These recipes came up online. The overall method of the second recipe, cooking longer in broth and wine to create a braising effect, seems sounder overall as an approach to game. But the first recipe calls for the use of some bacon to make up for the moose’s leanness whereas the second calls for shortening which seems less tasty to me. And what’s with the diced large onion? What were pearl onions put on this earth for if not for use in stews?
Here’s moose nutritional information. Apparently you roast mooseburgers in the oven rather than cooking them stovetop. And for a polyglot flavor, why not moose tomales.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
I love this. Keep it up. Honestly, these folks are such rubes.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Moose Tamales?!?! Yet another sign of the impending reconquista. How can you not see that!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
I love moose, my dad hunted about 10 years ago and moose stew is fantastic. Leave the bacon at home, why get moose but to have a lean meat? Also, if you take a large diced onion and then cook it way down with a little butter, it really ads to hearty stews. You can add pearl onions too, but I would do that towards the end.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
To cook Bullwinkle, you need a sprig of mooseberries.
And maybe some squirrel.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
And what’s with the diced large onion? What were pearl onions put on this earth for if not for use in stews?
Elitist!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Pearl onions are elitist, duh.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
In the past when cooking dry game I have first larded it using bacon “nails”—pieces of raw bacon twisted into one-inch nail shapes, frozen, then pushed into cuts all over the surface of the roast. For moose I’d do that and then braise it in broth and wine.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
And what’s with the diced large onion? What were pearl onions put on this earth for if not for use in stews?
Onions dissolve in stews, and pearl onions tend to be meant for appearance or variety, generally. (And you want the onion to dissolve, since that gives body to the stew.) My guess here is that you’d need to cook pearl onions separate; yeah, in the first recipe you saute the onions. Most stew recipes will tell you to saute the meat and then add the onions, but I usually find that doing the onions separately is the way to go.
OTOH, in that second recipe, cooking a whole onion for 15 minutes is probably not near long enough. Weird.
Apparently you roast mooseburgers in the oven rather than cooking them stovetop.
[Roots around a bit.] Aha. Moose is like venison; it’s tender and tends to go to pieces, unlike beef. So the mooseburgers when tends to be bloody and fall apart when you were frying them. Roasting them gets them cooked solid without effort. (And of course, it’s entirely possible to make hamburger/salisbury steak/whatever ground beef things in the oven.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Just for completeness’ sake, Matthew, I feel compelled to point out that you misspelled “tamales.” “Tomales” is the name of a bay in Marin County, California, so it might not have been red-flagged on a spell-checker.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
We cook a lot of deer at my house, and I can tell you that nothing helps cut the gaminess like dijon mustard. For a stew, I would cut the meat in to 1 inch cubes, dust them with flour, salt and pepper, and brown them in olive oil. Then I would deglaze with red wine, add some tomato paste and some sauteed carrot, onion and celery. Cover with beef stock and cook ’til done.
As Monty Python pointed out……………….A moose once bit my sister. Moose bites can be very dangerous.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 am
I can’t wait for the moose recipes stolen from http://www.northernliving.com or the Extreme Food Network…
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
We get it: you hate Alaska and all of its residents. Move on.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Palin wants to know if the 12 Tribes EVER produced a butcher with a pair of balls.
YOU trying slaughtering a moose kosher style.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
They have the hardest time recruiting Rabbis to move to Wasilla, for some reason.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am
This sounds really delicious, I MUST find myself a mooseburger.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
I had venison jerky over the weekend, quite good. I would have to assume there’s a moose equivalent.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 am
Pearl onions were put on this earth to be pickled and used to garnish cocktails.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
1) I was curious to find out what Rabbi had stepped in shit so deeply that he ended up serving in Wasilla, Alaska. So I checked and found the local synagogue:
http://www.2house.org/directory2.php?country=US&state=
“Rabbi James McIntosh”
2) The doctrinal statement of the Wasilla synagogue is curious. From http://www.2house.org/page.php?page=doctrinal_statement
“The UONYC holds a firm belief in the deity of Moshiach Yahshua, as the virgin born Son, having come in the flesh as our Emanuel. That in Him dwells all the fullness of omnipotence, and that Yahweh and His Moshiach/Savior are both Yahweh. Colossians 2:9
The UONYC holds a firm belief in Yahshua’s death, burial, physical resurrection and subsequent ascension to the right hand of the Father, where He sits as the High Priest-Kohen HaGadol over Renewed Covenant Yisrael. Psalm 110:1, Luke 24:51.
The UONYC holds a firm belief in Yahshua as the only brought forth Son of Yahweh, being the only way to eternal life John 14:6. That only the precious, set apart blood of the Lamb of Yahweh, Yahshua, can totally remove and remit one’s sins. John 1:29 ”
Hmmm. Is this ..uh..kosher?
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Y’know, it is possible to make fun of a nitwit like Sarah Palin without disparaging Alaska. I was just in Alaska a couple months ago and even ate dinner in Wasilla (it’s the home of the Iditarod headquarters). Nice place, but it was awfully weird for the sun to go down after 11:00 P.M.
After all, Petey’s the only one around here who regularly harps on you based on your trust-fund scumbaggery. When the rest of poke fun at your lacrosse-playin’, a capella-singin’, Maine-vacation-home-havin’ ass, it’s out of love.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Moose tamales, cooked in the U.S.A.?
It’s the NAFTA lunch special!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Moose mincemeat. The absolute best pie filling ever. And moose braised in red wine is wonderful. I tend to quarter small onions and brown them at the same time I am browning the moose prior to adding the liquids. You get more onion flavor than with those little onion marbles.
I lived there for 5 years, 3 with my military family and 2 on my own. Absolutely loved the place and the collection of characters comprising the population. That was before the pipeline and all the trailer trash and oil money parasites showed up. Come to think of it, it was mostly before the place was a state.
I really hope to hear more about the separatists. Alaska living without the Federal tit is a joke. It is the largest welfare colony in North America.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
No, it’s not kosher to cook the onions in butter and then add it to the moose stew! Try an olive oil instead.
November 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Interstingly, I once did some organic potato farming near Tomales, Marin County. The rabbi is getting exceptionally close to the truth about Yahshua the Messiah. This name has been covered up through history’s anti semitism. Yahusua: Came from Yahweh, the mighty one of Yisrael, short form YAH, as in HalleluYAH (Praise you YAH, Psalm 68:4) as in Yahrushalayim, EliYAHu, YAHudah, etc,.. The other part of name, shua, is his mission: salvation. Yahushua=Yahweh is salvation. Accept no lawless pagan Greek imposters! I am a scholar and researcher at the MEHSRA Scripture Research Academy in Missoula, Montana. There is a global dissemination and restoration of the accurate historical name of the Messiah currently taking place, leaders are Britain, USA, South Africa, Israel, Congo, Germany, Phillipines, and Canada.
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