Black Bear and Venison Meatloaf

[JimFromTN]

I love black bear meat. Its so goods. I need to start making a trip to Maine every other year to kill a black bear just for the meat. My brother killed a couple of black bears in Ak and he gave me some of the meat. I did not have enough black bear to make a meatloaf so I took some venison and mixed with it.

1 lb ground black bear meat
1 lb ground venison
1/4 lb andoulli sausage, chopped up fine (I was going to use bacon to add fat but I forgot it so I used andoulli. I'm glad I did.)
1 onion chopped fine
4 gloves garlic chopped
3 eggs
1 cup bread crumbs
3 tblspoons fresh parsley
1 tblspoon cajun spice
2 tblspoons cheap parm cheese

Mix all ingredients together and form into a loaf. Bake on 350 for 1 hour.

I made a dijon and dill mustard sauce to pour over it which turned out pretty good.

Make a roux out of 3 tblspoons butter and 2 to 3 tblspoons flour. Cook until peanut butter colored. Add 2 clove garlic and cook a little longer. Add 1 can chicken broth and stir in. Add 2 tblespoons dijon mustard, more can be added after tasting if its not strong enough. Add 1 tblespoon dill paste from the tube. I don't know where you get it but its pretty good. It gives it kind of a pickle flavor. Cook a few more minutes and its ready to serve.

 

[JohnnyBond]

 

[bowriter]

Jim, if I ever kill another bear, which I greatly doubt, I will give ou every scrap of the meat. I hav eaten it about every way it can be cooked and prepared by a variety of people. The more I chew it, the bigger it gets. One of the very few wild game meats I can't stand.

 

[JimFromTN]

I think its absolutely heavenly and I'll take every bit of it. You don't even have to butcher it. Just bring me the quarters. I have yet to taste any gameyness in any of it that I have eaten. The first bear I ever ate, my mother cooked it like roast beef and made gravy with it and served it with mashed tators. It was very good.

I made a black bear sausage quiche on new years morning this year which turned out great. I made some black bear kofta last week which is like a mediteranean meatball which was good also.

I've got some roasts I want to play around with. The only issue with black bear is that you can't eat it medium rare because they can carry trichinosis like pigs.

The only wild game that tastes better to me is moose, but its like a filet mignon flavored rubber tire. You either have to pound it to death with a mallet or you have to cook it to death in order to be able to chew it.

 

[WTM]

sounds goods and thanks for posting the recipe(a rare thing on this forum lately).