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Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 9:40 pm Post subject: Venison!

The young man who hunts our property got a nice buck this morning. About 160 pounds, he thinks. I've tried to include a picture but keep getting a box that says the myff has expired.

Anyhow - New Jersey has a law that hunters must first shoot a doe, as there are so many white tail deer running around the countryside (and not so country too.) He got a smaller doe a few weeks ago, very happy with this buck.

Field dressed it, so foxes and crows are going to be happy. This weekend he'll bring me a forequarter, hind quarter, and back strap. I then finish butchering to my choice. Roasts, stews, chili . . . yumm.

And if anyone can tell me a work around for the picture issue I'll put something up for you to admire.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 9:45 pm Post subject:
It's probably too big. I can reduce it for you if you want to email it me.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 10:12 pm Post subject:
Or the title has characters in that the software doesn't like. % and & signs are problematic IIRC. You could try just retitling it.

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 10:42 pm Post subject:

I appreciate the suggestions Jamanda and Sean. I tried e-mailing the image to Jamanda and it had the same error message.

The image is on my computer. It was resized down to 600 pixels by proportional. Click on "attach" Browse for the image, click on it, click on upload. This has previously been successful.

I'm not titling the image, the Downsizer program is doing all of that. Do I need to play with the html code that the program creates?

I even tried using the thumbnail gubbins and that didn't work either.

Oh well. It's just a very nice image of a happily smiling young man kneeling in the leaves and holding up the head of this big buck. You all don't really need to see it now, do you?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 10:48 pm Post subject:
You're not titling it personally. The jpeg will have a file name on your computer though, if it contains characters that the software on downsizer doesn't like then you get the Myff image has expired message.

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 12:09 am Post subject:
One more try. Renamed the image, saved it a second time, uploaded it to Downsizer gallery

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 6:42 am Post subject:
Ah, you did it. I was just about to have a go.

perlogalism

Joined: 27 Nov 2009
Posts: 440
Location: Near Welshpool

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 7:50 am Post subject:
Congratulations, that's a good sized animal! It'll keep you going for a while.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 7:07 pm Post subject:
Nice eating with Paradise Jelly

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 8:03 pm Post subject:

To be sure. But I don't have any.

What I do have is grape jelly with thyme and rosemary. Think that will do?

Absolute best meal of venison I ever cooked was a saddle of venison with chestnut puree and braised Brussels sprouts, with a vintage bottle of Bordeaux. Venison / pork / veal pate for starters. Don't recall what for afters. [My daughter was still at home and she was a real sweetheart, would peel that thin brown skin off the chestnuts so I could prepare them a la Julia Child.]

However with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on us I'm not sure what will be. OH has checked out the generator and we'll fill water jugs as if power goes out so does the well pump. Dining by candlelight may be a necessity rather than a romantic interlude.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 8:06 pm Post subject:
Good luck with Sandy.

graysalchemy

Joined: 10 Oct 2012
Posts: 73

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 8:10 pm Post subject:
Braised venison with Elderberry Stout

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 12 2:59 am Post subject:

Having defrosted some pieces of boneless venison shoulder, last Sunday I put it through the coarse plate on the meat grinder, together with some boneless pork sparerib meat / fat. Made chili. Very good.

That evening we were going over to friends for dinner. They provide vegetables and dessert, he grills steaks for the two of them and we bring something to be grill for us. I put some of the coarsely ground venison and pork through the grinder again, with a medium plate and used it for burgers. Excellent! Of course the chips from our friends home grown potatoes, green beans she'd processed and frozen last summer, and hen of the woods mushrooms I'd foraged and frozen last year weren't bad either.

As an aside - I cubed the meat and put it in the freezer for an hour or so to thoroughly chill it down before grinding. Did the same before grinding a second time. I think it really helped.

BTW - am I supposed to write "mincer" rather than "grinder" for you folks across the pond?

perlogalism

Joined: 27 Nov 2009
Posts: 440
Location: Near Welshpool

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 12 10:59 pm Post subject:

Jam Lady wrote:

BTW - am I supposed to write "mincer" rather than "grinder" for you folks across the pond?

Mincer / Grinder, it matters not: They both have alternative interpretations

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 12 11:02 pm Post subject:

perlogalism wrote:

Jam Lady wrote:

BTW - am I supposed to write "mincer" rather than "grinder" for you folks across the pond?

Mincer / Grinder, it matters not: They both have alternative interpretations

Ooo err missus!

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