No meat so far on the end of my stick. I'll keep trying but what is you recipe for "tag soup"! :biglaugh:
The only recipe I use just calls for a few cold brews :biglaugh:
Lots of mustard, between two pieces of bread. that's about how it would taste compared to venison. The leave the tag pinned to the refrig as a reminder. :notworthy: :campfire: Find a few new areas during the off season. Look for sheds this winter. Have fun, it could be worse.
Goes good with humble pie. I've been pigging out on that lately.
Haha yep! Season ain't done here yet, but the deer in my spots are feeling pretty proud of themselves these days..
At least it's low cal.......... :biglaugh:
I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. I may have the same thing for a dinner here soon. Terrible year. rat'
Poached
Better question is "are you having fun?" I let two does go in two sits this Saturday. Didn't bother me a bit.
I really don't want to be in this boat with you guys. But last years bad winter hit the deer herd pretty hard. Bucks only here. And the only 3 I encountered were taken my the Orange army. Havnt seen any sizable tracks since. Had a few does come into range but like I said there off limits this year. Only a few weekends left and the holiday hubbub and x-Mas. Are going to curtail my time left in the woods. I have not even loosed an arrow this year exept for a squirrel or two.
So I may be saying pass the salt.
Dont know the best recipe but I may need it too the way this year has been going! But I'm enjoying every bit!
Never found a good recipe, so my stockpile of ingredients has necessitated renting a storage unit.
Killdeer :rolleyes: :help: :eek:
I have 3 years worth of spring and fall turkey tags that are well aged. Let me know if you find a good recipe.
Having a lot of experience in having nothing but tags at the end of the season. I can tell you that no matter how its prepared it will leave a bitter taste in your mouth.lol
You gotta let the tags hang for a while, then they're not so tough...
Which also improves the flavor..
Hadn't thought about it in a while, I,'ve got a bear tag and a deer tag still sitting quietly in a pocket of a backpack, from a couple falls ago. There was a death in the family that pretty much knocked me on my ass. Gettin out and tramping through the woods was probably one the best things I could have done at the time.
I think my recipe will involve not buying any more tags until I find a decent place to hunt...or a work schedule that will allow me to travel to hunt.
I don't kill anything because there just isn't much to kill where I hunt. I don't see any sense in continuing to pay the state for that.
Let the state eat the tag soup.
I marinate, then smoke. Not over yet, got a few weeks before that happens!
they're great with foam deer.
I like to throw them right on an open fire, take a few slugs of fine whiskey, fall asleep, then wake up to find I must have overcooked it because I cant find it anywhere. ;) :cool:
This is all hilarious!
Hang on to them and sell them on **** in a few years as "Retro".
"Retro" tags would have little value because I could flood the market... ;)
Host a tag burning party with a camp fire and beer. Then, after a few beers, put the tags in the fire with a suitable ceremony and have a few more beers...
I actually have a huge shadowbox for mine- I have photos, stones I pick up, broken arrows, oddities, maps, letters or emails from the groups I've hunted with, etc...and use the unfilled tags in there...I can look at it and 'see' the hunts in my mind just glancing at it....
In spite of eating a hearty tag-soup each year, I find that trad bowhunting still tastes great and is satisfying. Here's what I cook up most years:
First I'll set the table with some fletching and tuning, then I start out with an appetizer (multiple helpings) of months of backyard practice, and liven it up with a few sprinkles of 3-D shoots. To the tag-soup itself (a hearty stew, really) my initial ingredients are 1 1/2 scoops of Compton, some slices of Kalamazoo Expo, and some local club, if I can fit it in. The club in my area has a wild flavor, with a lot of wheelies, so I'm careful not to overwhelm the meal with too much technology. My favorite part of the stew is the peeled scouting, which I try to mix at least by halves with "family time". Since the whole stew is simmering by now, and there's a great aroma filling the house, it's not hard to come up with some "bowhunter comeraderie" to beef up the nutritional value. Sometimes (if available, depending on the season) I throw in a couple shots of "missed", but this can make the stew bitter and overwhelm the flavor, if I'm too liberal with it. To wash it all down I enjoy a tall glass of "fiddling with my gear". For dessert, a piece of "vids & pics" cake always hits the spot.
All that other stuff usually makes the taste of the unfilled tag just disappear.
Archie,
Quit your day job and start publishing! :clapper:
Wow Archie, your making me hungry!
I usually eat mine like Jerky. :readit: Get them slobbery enough by gnawing on them, then down the hatch!! I figure they are High In Dietary Fiber. hahaha :biglaugh: