Wild Weekend

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Bachelor all weekend so I decided, among the full list of chores, to start making a dent in the deep freezer.

First up we're a couple random small bags of duck and goose. This ended up being a happy accident. I set them up to cook offset on the Weber kettle while I put down mulch. The dome temp got up around 400* and I got sidetracked working on the yard. By the time I checked them they temped 140+. Thought I had over done it but they all ended up evenly cooked right at a solid med rare. I love doing yard birds hot and fast when I smoke them and I think that's the name of the game for wild fowl too.
The fam will eat duck but they prefer deer and turkey so this was my food for the rest of the weekend. Sliced on a bagged salad, in a mess of nachos and a skin on breast meat on some sort of breakfast tostado I thought up as I was making it.
PS if at all possible leave the fat/skin on your duck meat.

 

[TAFKAP]

I only pluck ducks now because of the skin. Very nice

 

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Next up 4 wild turkey legs/thighs. Big thanks to @megalomaniac for sharing this on some turkey post way back in the spring. Literally the meat just fell apart. Pretty simple beer & chicken stock and some taco seasoning. I think he said fajita seasoning but I just went with what I had with the idea being this will all get cooked & seasoned again on the griddle for tacos. Will also keep more bones in the future because this stock is liquid gold. Cooked each of these for about 12 hours total.

 

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Last but not least a couple big hunks of the ham from the buck I killed last fall. Marinated in allegro Terriyaki for a couple hours and then back on the trusty Weber offset at around 350. I honestly don't remember how long they cooked when they temped at 130 I moved them on top of the coals and brushed on some lard for good measure. I'll freeze this and pull them out for stir fry/fried rice on the griddle. Good timing because I just got the mount back a couple weeks ago so I finally put him up while his back side was roasting on my grill.
Feels good to have all this done and ready to go later this summer.

 

[bobbuck]

Dang that duck looks good!

 

[brassmagnet]

Whole dang thread looks good. That stock looks amazing, love homemade stock.

 

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Whole dang thread looks good. That stock looks amazing, love homemade stock.

I am really excited about that, hope it tastes as good as it smelled.