Venison , should we eat more of it?

I think it just boils down to what you are use to. My DH has a friend that actually goes out hunting deer and enjoys eating it but you would never see it in a local chain store. I would never eat a rabbit or a squirrel. Yes,they eat squirrels in the south even though I've never met anyone that has. Don't laugh but I've never eaten lamb or kidneys. beef,chicken and fish that's me.Liver? Yuk

Oh my I forgot PORK! what was I thinking! Love my bacon!!!

I love bacon too!

how do you make a bacon buddy?

I don't think there are any shoulds about it. We eat what we like, what's available, and what we can afford, which includes some venison and some bacon. If rabbit was readily available where we shop, we'd eat that too. When I lived in Thailand most of the meat I ate was seafood, because that's what there was.

I'm surprised you don't have rabbit available locally Bags they abound here. Rabbit stew cooked in the Aga, lovely. Won't eat everything that's available locally, draw the line at seal and otter (and orca)!

Well, there are rabbits, but they don't show up in the shops. My neighbour two fields away has an air rifle and her grown up son sometimes shoots some rabbits which she stews. Hunting with a bow and arrow is illegal in this country or I might take aim. Good way to lose arrows unless you're a very good shot though! And we don't see many rabbits in the garden now, though we did the first year we were here. Plenty in the fields.

PS DH tells me he nearly ran over an otter a mile or so up The Road last Saturday. They've been spotted at the top end of the loch for a year or two so it's nice that they're making their way down now.

envious I suspect you mean a bacon butty
Nothing to do with butty who posts on GN of course
A butty is basically a sandwich, but a thick-cut one, not a refined one - for example you would never have a cucumber butty, only a cucumber sandwich because they have to be made with thinly-sliced bread.
Anyway back to the bacon.
Your bacon butty (in my house, others may well differ in their views) should consist of as much crispy well-fried bacon (emphatically not soggy pink stuff) that you can cram between slices of heavily buttered white (not brown) thick-sliced bread, or soft rolls, variously known in different parts of the UK as barm cakes, baps, morning rolls or stotties.
Should be eaten immediately while the bacon is still very hot.
There! That will probably set the cat amongst the pigeons

[mouth-watering emoticon]

Confession: I use brown, homemade bread.

And unsalted butter.

Still yummy.

"'Well, there are rabbits, but they don't show up in the shops." Bags that made me LOL! Visions of them presenting themselves at the local butchers!

jane you are absolutely right about how a bacon butty must (in its legal sense - there must be a law somewhere) be made. Lovely soft white, thick bread, slathered with butter and crammed with good quality, thinly sliced bacon with crispy fat. A British delicacy!

Our monthly local farmers' market and at least one of the butchers in our daily market sell venison as roasts, steaks and diced. I quite often make a batch of burgers from the cheap cuts and have been known to splash out on roasting a saddle when we have had house guests.

Rabbit, guinea fowl and squab are also widely available and so too are game birds in season. In fact, I have a much wider choice of meat (and fish for that matter) within walking distance in this small North-eastern town than I did in West London.

Thank you when
I forgot to add that when my son who is now a US citizen comes home, bacon butties are the mandatory first meal on English soil

A bacon bitty is the one thing that my vegetarian daughter yearns for.
I like them made from white floury baps.

Butty!

jane and when no brown sauce? Sacrilege

No Sel - no brown sauce for me, but I suppose people can adulterate their bacon butty if they wish

I do keep brown sauce in the cupboard for the sons-in-law Sel but they obviously weren't brought up properly

Couldn't eat it with brown sauce, or ketchup for that matter, but it has to be real butter and a lot of bacon.

DH insists on brown sauce sel, would be a bacon butty without it for him but no butter, that surprises me. He would still consider it a bacon butty if he added an egg.

Getting back to phoenix's post. When we go to the Christmas market I have a venison burger and love it. When we were in Cape Town they called all the various deer type animals venison and we ate loads of it. We loved it and I wish it was more available. What happens to the meat when they cull the dear? Why doesn't it come to my supermarket?

I can get it from my butcher, but I have to order it. I love venison burgers, and itoo first had them in South Africa . Movedalot I can get it in Waitrose.

More venison ? yes,yes, yes, yes yes.