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Finally...it was the long way around the barn but I got it to work. Jeesh!

Winter has finally arrived here so a day prepping meat and then grinding is a good way to spend it. My helpers this year at work (I was mostly the trim and wrapping guy). We made venison (elk & deer) burger, italian sausage and summer sausage. Our freezer is now much more orderly.

Marks21: Many year ago I read about a big dinner at a very fancy restaurant in New York City where the member of "The Explorers Club" dined on mastodon and other exotics that they had secured from a glacier somewhere. Don't know the particulars now about all of that but the story had been reported in some credible source at that time (back when credibility in the media mattered, 1970s maybe?).

Edit to add: For dinner that night we dined on American Wagyu ribeyes (Costco has some leftover from the holidays). A bit pricy still but the absolutely cheapest way to do it. They were still pretty good (I'd been sampling burger patties made from our grind all day and wasn't very hungry, but both my wife and the other helper said they were absolutely great).

Last edited by Lloyd3; 01/26/26 04:26 PM.