Pemmican Meat Loaf
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theoldwolf♬ This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...
Pemmican Meat Loaf
We do what we must, because we can.
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are fat
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
We just keep on eating til we get to the cake
And the dieting is done
But the eating is so fun
For the people who are still alive... ♬
Ingredients
1 lb. Ground Bison
1 Medium Onion, chopped
2/3 C Finely chopped parsely
1 can Organic, unsalted diced tomatoes, drained
1 ½ C Acorn Meal 1
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
Salt
Pepper
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix all ingredients together, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place in a loaf pan and bake 1 hour, or until an instant-read thermometer measures 160° at the center.
1 For Acorn Meal, use acorns which have been properly prepared to leach out the tannins. This can be accomplished in many different ways. The fastest is to boil shelled acorns for 3 hours, changing the water every 15 minutes, or until the water stops turning heavily brown. You’ll be able to tell when you’ve gotten most of the tannin out. The acorns can then be dried in a 200° oven and ground in a blender, food processor, or grain mill.
For this recipe, I actually used 6 biscuits which had been prepared according to a standard buttermilk biscuit recipe with the addition of 1/4 cup gluten flour. These were ground in a blender to form a meal.
A good acorn reference book with many recipes is here. The author, Suellen Ocean, uses a slower, cold process for leaching the acorns.
Mogg's teeth! This was one of the best things I've ever cooked up from this and that...
I'm making a note here, huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...
Pemmican Meat Loaf
We do what we must, because we can.
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are fat
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
We just keep on eating til we get to the cake
And the dieting is done
But the eating is so fun
For the people who are still alive... ♬
Ingredients
1 lb. Ground Bison
1 Medium Onion, chopped
2/3 C Finely chopped parsely
1 can Organic, unsalted diced tomatoes, drained
1 ½ C Acorn Meal 1
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
Salt
Pepper
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix all ingredients together, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place in a loaf pan and bake 1 hour, or until an instant-read thermometer measures 160° at the center.
1 For Acorn Meal, use acorns which have been properly prepared to leach out the tannins. This can be accomplished in many different ways. The fastest is to boil shelled acorns for 3 hours, changing the water every 15 minutes, or until the water stops turning heavily brown. You’ll be able to tell when you’ve gotten most of the tannin out. The acorns can then be dried in a 200° oven and ground in a blender, food processor, or grain mill.
For this recipe, I actually used 6 biscuits which had been prepared according to a standard buttermilk biscuit recipe with the addition of 1/4 cup gluten flour. These were ground in a blender to form a meal.
A good acorn reference book with many recipes is here. The author, Suellen Ocean, uses a slower, cold process for leaching the acorns.
Mogg's teeth! This was one of the best things I've ever cooked up from this and that...
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Date: 2009-11-09 07:15 am (UTC)I had rather hoped that you would post.
And now my wish comes true - you have truly made my night!
-=TK
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Date: 2009-11-09 07:28 am (UTC)Uh. Um, what I meant was... Uh, that is...
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Date: 2009-11-09 08:13 am (UTC)-=TK
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-09 03:43 pm (UTC)"Your obedient servant,
"T.K."
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Date: 2009-11-09 10:23 am (UTC)What does bison taste like? Similar to buffalo I'm guessing? (like a strong beef flavour?)
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Date: 2009-11-09 06:15 pm (UTC)-=TK
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Date: 2009-11-09 06:18 pm (UTC)this is a bison, and
this is a buffalo.
The only thing I've ever eaten is "bison", and for the average American, the terms are interchangeable. We don't get meat from the cape buffalo or water buffalo around here...
And our buffalo (= bison) is very good, not gamy at all, sweeter than beef and less fatty.
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Date: 2009-11-09 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-09 07:24 pm (UTC)