Moose

This is not the thread to discuss it !

Moose the band, classic! Moose the promoter, well I dont have to deal with him no more so I aint saying.

Moose are a hell of alot bigger then cows but their moose call is a dud. They kill Newfies at night so also dud.

Moosehead (green label) == Super Classic! Moosehead (red label ie pale ale) = DUD.

Moosehead is brewed about two house from my apartment.

I once saw a moose on a bike trail in Anchorage, Alaska. He looked magnificent.

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The plural of moose is moose. You may wonder why it's not meese (like goose --> geese). It's 'cause goose has a germanic root and moose is an algonquin word. Also moose are really good swimmers.

My boss is back from her vacation so from now on all pissing around will have to be done more discreetly.

Mooshead's secret weapon is a beer called Clancy's. Might be only available in Nova Scoita/New Brunswick but its killer. Sadly its also like Ontario's nefarious "Naked Beer" in that even if you only have two or three you WILL wake up feeling hungover.

(Actually, I have no real opinion about moose, who are cool in theory but a bit huge and slavery and stuff in real life, but I am very much in love with the supposed Finnish slang "[x] rocks/boogies like a moose". Perhaps that explanation will mean this post makes at least some sense to someone other than me. Perhaps not. Oh well.)

(Uhm, I'm rubbish, but you realise this already; d'you still want those Marble Valley tapes? Perhaps I should do a general "I suck, who do I owe what and who still wants it?" thread except that would involve re-promising to do everything all at once and that would be bound to go wrong.)

I'm still waiting for my Marble Valley tapes.

my roommate's asked me to cook him a big hunk of moose meat his mother gave him--what in the world do i do w it?

Stew.

rly? wouldn't want to ruin the novelty of eating moose by disguising it in a stew though

like we need a stew that accentuates the unique essence of moosemeat in all its glories

wtf does moose taste like anyways

Kind of like deer, which I don't really like that much. I have only had it in a stew though.

Moose are nuts. I get pissed every time I'm driving somewhere with a Moose X-ing sign and I don't see any.

My mom sent me several jars of moose she had cooked, cubed, and put into Mason jars. (She said, "I'm having your sister bring you some canned moose," which I thought meant mousse in a tin.) It was ok shredded up in tacos & burritos. You could probably cook it like a brisket this way? Also was good in a stew. I was pretty unimaginative with it tbh. It made my husband scared, so we didn't eat very much of it.

FWIW I did not think that the flavor of moose meat was something that really deserved front & center accentuation like that.

I remember in Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, the book that started my hate affair with epistolary novels, the idiot child protagonist (who was Alaskan iirc) frequently whined about having to eat chipped moose meat on toast. SO if you can figure out how to chip meat, that's another option.

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brisket, huh

tempted to trust you about accentuated, but i have this thing about eating foods that are exotic to me. like at the grocery store they've got a "wtf kind of fruit is this!?" section of psychedelic looking fruit and i can never resist even if they're kind of expensive

The moose in question was one my father had murdered, and it just tasted like big gamey yuck. I don't think the jarring process helped, either. IMO it might be best ground up as sausage so you really couldn't taste it.

Maybe stroganoff would be good?

Favorite Moose Recipes from our Family

There are currently three generations of our family that Hunt Moose together and we are looking forward to the fourth. Moose hunting trips take a lot of planning and preparation so we plan our trips for the following season from the last day of the current hunt. My wife says I am obsessed; I tend to agree with her.

cool family imo

http://www.all-about-moose.com/images/Ethan-Blueberry-Picture.jpg

Our joy right now is our grandson Ethan, he's 15 month's old and into everything. Here he is eating blueberries

We hope he is the next generation of Moose Hunter in our family. It is vitally important that we encourage young people to take up the sport of hunting, it is this age group that need to be mentored and shown that hunters are also conservationists.

Ethan should really have this key chain then and not me

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If you remove all the fat and silver skin it should cut down on the gamey flavour a bit - I usually do this with my annual supply of venison. Since you've taken all the wild fat off the moose roast, you're going to need to supplement it - lay strips of bacon over it, and cook to ~135-140F internal for med-rare. People usually over-do venison, elk and moose because the meat is so dark in color, and there's not much fat on it so it dries out fast. Err on the side of rare.

If it's all jarred up into a meat mash of some sort the fat's all mixed in and it's definitely going to taste gamey - I'd rep for a storganoff, yeah, or maybe a bourguignon or other slow-cooked meal. Brown it in some duck fat first, add wine, simmer, nom.

http://www.all-about-moose.com/images/Ethan-Blueberry-Picture.jpg

Our joy right now is our grandson Ethan, he's 15 month's old and into everything. Here he is with the blood of a mooose all over his face

That kid is going to give me nightmares.

hahahahahahaha

ok i gotta be straight w/ u guys: when you say the word "gamey," i don't exactly know what that word means

It's hard to describe - it's the sort of strong, tangy, earthy flavour that a lot of wild meat has. Some people find it a bit uric / ammoniac as well, depending on the cut and how the meat is cleaned.