Hi Jay, welcome back.

I know nothing about guns, but at the rural end of my regular travels several of my neighbors (and all the farmers) have shotguns which, as you say, are the normal tool for bird shooting, far as I'm aware.

People can have other stuff too, if they can show a genuine need. There's a farm a mile up the road where they run deer and the local butcher comes up and shoots those in the field with a savage looking rifle with a scope - couldn't begin to tell you what it is. He butchers and hangs it in his farm shop a few hundred yards away, from where it then travels to our fridge and into our tummies.

So for anyone who thinks about that stuff, that's organically reared venison with exactly two food miles on it. How eco right on is that?

Haven't got round to smoking venison yet, but it's on the list...

Cheers - C

Hot damn, this is making my mouth water!

So far we've produced amazingly moist chicken and pheasant in the smoker by using the water bath, just as you say. The idea of smoking as a way of preserving food is completely wasted on us because it all gets scoffed the minute it comes out the smoker!

We did some salmon for the first time recently too, and it worked amazingly well. In fact, there's a picture of it on Gratz's sandwich thread...

Dunno how, but we haven't made a mistake with this smoking thing yet. Which is in very large part thanks to the excellent advice we've had from several Forum users, particularly yourself, Jay.

(Big Jay generously gave me some very in depth smoking advice off the Forum, in addition to what's been seen here.)

Not sure when the venison season begins in my neck of the woods (maybe it's going already?), but red meat is probably next on our list for smoking experiments. Cider in the pan and sauce made from the drippings, huh? Noted!!!

Cheers - C

I really have to go and eat now, I'm famished after reading that!


CC

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Oh man! [Salivating freely.]

Right now our apple trees are dripping with fruit, and many of them are very much on the tart side. Always looking for things to do with those ones - and here's another good idea!

Jay, is it a guitar company we're going to start up - or a restuarant?

Or both?

I'm off to the fridge...

Cheers - C

Good day folks. Thanks for thinking of us "old timers"

I've been about - but had some issues with my Mac - yes, even Macs have issues sometimes - especially with long in the tooth hard drives

And as I like to say - Life Interrupted - that's how it goes.

Personal issues, computer issues, everyone gets them. Life goes on.

Gil

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Well, it's good to hear back from you guys! I'm glad all is well with you. We have to keep up with our "old timer" !

Copying down all of Ceri's and BigJay's recipes for my venison this year! Along with the other assorted recipes listed!

I traded an old literally road worn Strat for a loaded MacBook today with iLife09, 4GB RAM, seemed like a good deal. The display is 13.3" but it's only going to be used for recording with Logic...mostly.

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That sounds like a good deal to me Mike!!