Feasting on Mammoth: Wild Game
By Stephen Unterberg
I recently went with my roommate to Ingram Texas, an hour West of San Antonio to visit the Broken Arrow Ranch office. My brother told me about this ranch and it immediately caught my interest since they specialize in wild game including elk, wild boar, antelope, and venison. It was a lot of fun touring the process facilities and checking out the massive freezers storing all of the different meats raised out at the ranch. The company has been running for 26 or so years and makes shipments all across the country for their game meats.
http://www.brokenarrowranch.com/
So, as customary, I spent a bunch of money buying random cuts of meat I thought sounded interesting. I kept most of it back in San Antonio, but managed to bring with me back to Dallas a few packages to cook with. I’ll be posting some recipes that used these different meats. My purchases included venison smoked sausage, venison heart, venison liver, wild boar ribs and belly, wild boar stew meat, wild boar shoulder, wild boar Italian sausage, elk chili meat, elk burgers, elk osso buco, Texas antelope Noisettes, and a few other items I’m forgetting. Paleo has definitely brought a much greater appreciation of advocating sustainable farming and animal rearing and this has allowed me to explore some interesting venues as well as further developing my palate. Apparently there are some pretty good grass-fed and wild game recipe books out on the market, if interested.
If interested in Texas cuisine and wild game recipes, check out -
I personally haven’t read either of these two books, but plan on ordering them soon to try out. So maybe I’ll give my own book report on the above two.
I also highly recommend doing some research and finding a few farms that can deliver some quality grass fed or pastured meats to your door. I recently came upon another website that received some rave reviews from local bloggers that can deliver meats nationally; however, I don’t know what the shipping cost is. Around the Dallas area, they only charge $5 for shipping and sell pastured beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and raw cheeses. I’ll be making an order very soon for my parents to have their freezers stocked up with proper meats.
http://burgundypasturebeef.com/public_home.php
I also just finished reading Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival as well as Good Calories, Bad Calories. Both were very interesting reads; and I can’t recommend Gaury Taube’s book enough. It is seriously one of the most important books that everyone should read. It’s incredibly intriguing and does a better job than any in explaining our current nutritional wisdom. Seriously, READ IT!!
Next on my list…On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of of the Kitchen
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