#Food

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Yes in fact it was Bear Gravy, made from Canadian black bear meat. The meatloaf was ⅓ bear meat, ⅔ beef. The gravy was rendered down from the bear meat alone. So good. Think of it as a regular beef meatloaf, with added robustness. Not "gamy" at all. The gravy was dark brown in color and thick. Smoky, and full of flavor. If you have eaten bison or moose steaks, sort of like that, but different. The meatloaf had egg and something else as a binder, don't know what.

4 stars.

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I asked the cook for recipe.
Her response: "I don't got no recipe, I grill the bear meat and then cook it down to a gravy. Grind up Beef chuck, and Bear steaks, throw in an egg or two. Some other stuff, and spices. What ya gonna do tell the world about it. No way, if anyone wants to eat it they got to come to my house."

She could have just said no.

@BillyBones @corlin

maybe it's a meal eaten...

wait for it....

with you bear hands?

@elmaxx 😆 @corlin

@corlin
Once I was served a dish, but not told what it was until after eating it.

Tasted like fishy squirrel.

Muskrat!

Trust no one!

@ceorl @corlin someone forgot or didn't know how to prep that. There's a crucial first step to cooking any animal with musk glands. I won't describe it here. Fairly easy, absolutely essential, and probably not worth it -- eat something else. Raccoon, opossum, muskrat.

#grossCookingTips

@b4cks4w @corlin
It was my landlady at the time. I think some local trapper hooked her up with it but she had no experience with game.

I don't think it was musk though. It wasn't totally horrible, just a bit fishy like "This lives in water!"

I don't eat anything that can look me in the eyes anymore now anyway.

@ceorl @corlin sounds like a (partial) gland got missed. But yeah, why. Eat a squirrel. A bean burger. Some cardboard.

@b4cks4w @corlin
That's quite possible. Definitely not something I would want to repeat ;)

I remember having a mouthgasm for some moose steaks tossed right on hot coals though ;)

@ceorl @corlin never had that but what a perfect way to cook it.

@b4cks4w @corlin
I thought it totally left beef in its dust. So much flavor :)

@redenigma
Could be.
I don’t know.
Will find out.

@corlin oh it's bear not beer lmao

Well no i haven't heard of that and it sure ain't used in steak pies

lmao

@corlin

maybe someone had a black bear roast, had got the drippings from that. bet it's very tasty, in a very good way.

@corlin I’m invested now. Report back with quickness. 😂

@Avalea

Will do.

@corlin bears that have been eating what bears *should* be eating (fruit, nuts, etc) are pretty tasty. bears that eat garbage, not so great. lots of fish can make them a bit fishy as well

@corlin Did I log back in here to specifically check on this? Yes. Yes I did.

@corlin that’s awesome! I haven’t had wild game in forever. I used to eat a lot of moose meat, when I was younger, as I lived in a remote village, where hunting / fishing for food was our way of life. Wild game like bear and moose provide the richest gravies!! Sooo flavourful 😋

@corlin Sounds good. Is that an invite?

@corlin Nice.

@corlin interesting! We had bear meat one year and I tried to make a bear meat roast but it was not good. I think we ended up throwing the rest out. Unless we made it into sausage possibly. I do hate wasting food. I just remember not liking it.

@corlin Well, cheers to a new and different, positive meal experience! That's a win!