Venison Steak Results...In

 The verdict is in: these darn venison steaks are outstanding! After a successful test pattern Thursday night on one small steak, we grilled up 6 more of these babies last night and everyone loved them-even Britt, who is a yogi and rarely even eats red meat. That tells the story. And Mom, who likes beef but didn't think she liked venison based on previous experience, thought they were excellent. Dad was expecting them to taste like hammered cow snot and was very surprised at the level of tastiness and even my bride was surprised at how good they were. 

After consulting this morning with cousin "Duster Man" Volkart, a long time outdoorsman and deer enthusiast, we've laid plans for doing some serious venison smoking, roasting, grilling and of course consuming (Dustin currently has a 200 pound doe carcass aging nicely in his shop). I may even head to the deer woods Monday morning in search of a nice fat doe, since the temperatures the first of the week are expected to drop back in the potential venison hanging/aging range. If so, I may be back in the deer hunting business baby! 
Oh, and according to "The Duster Man" (aka Dustin), Almost Uncle Tom (Tom Jones of world wide engineering fame) has a killer recipe for smoking and slow roasting venison hams, that as cousin Damon might say, "Will knock your shorts in the dirt and make a tadpole slap a whale!" All we need now is to enlist the support of cousin Darin (formerly of Damon, Damon and Damon) to weld us up a heavy duty smoker/grill/spit to handle all these darn deer these young guys keep whacking. In the meantime, I'll of course keep you posted...

~Hard to find steaks that look this good even at the Bentonville Meat Market

~Difficult to tell from this picture, but these darn things tasted real good