[QUOTE]Originally posted by TX76513
[B]Of coarse not. Just like those who prefer the frozen food it's all about convenience, but if you must eat you can fish.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html

MedMech, I'm glad that you like to go hunt for your meat. I've had wild game and the taste is like nothing that can be bought from a store - it's great.

However, I'm one that simply cannot draw a rifle on another living animal. I've never been hunting, and the thought of me killing another animal just doesn't sit well with me. For that reason alone, I'll stick with buying my various meats from the grocery store, and leave the hunting for those who enjoy it.

As for cooking, I can cook, and do enjoy it when I can come up with the free time. The problem is, I rarely have the free time, so a quick fix item typically makes the menu. I do buy alot of frozen stuff, but typically take that to work for lunches. I used to eat fast food once and sometimes twice daily. I've managed to cut that down to three times a week most of the time. I still have lots of work to do on my diet, but I'm workin' on it.

Lack of time is a major factor.

When I grew up, my mom was a homemaker and got dinner on the table by 5:30. My Dad would be home by then. My brother and I got home at 3:30 and did our homework and chores, so after dinner, we had a few hours of quality time to kill before bedtime!

Now I have a family of my own: one child, two working parents...actually except for the number of kids, a demographic norm.

My wife and I have high-demand occupations. Fortunately, we work in the same building, so the commute is not as taxing as it could be. Nevertheless, we get our daughter from daycare sometime after 6PM. She has to get what's left of her routines completed before bedtime around 9PM...that leaves a three-hour window for unfinished homework or class projects, soccer practice or piano lessons, or whatever. I have to get whatever yard work, MB maintenance, house honeydos done in that same time frame. Bottom line is little or no quality time whatsoever, pushed to the weekends (also a busy deal)!

I am culinarily-challenged, so that leaves my wife to tend to that aspect. We are dining by 7:30 if she decides to prepare a meal. But if we do takeout or "nuke" our meals, we have finished eating and are on track for other activities by 6:30.

So cooking has to be a forced activity in our household...our daughter couldn't care less and would be happy eating fast food junk if we let her!

Fortunately, we've taken to eating healthier, so we eat a home-cooked meal pretty often in our household...and learned to work more efficiently in other areas to free up more quality time...

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Thanks for your rational thoughts, most non-hunters eat meat but critisize us. You’re welcome to come to my house anytime and enjoy some wild game with us.

The enjoyment part is somewhat debatable sometimes I ask myself, why in the hell do i do this? Killing is never any fun the hunt is the most fun up to the point of kill then, the moment comes that seperates the men from the boy, life or death.

My idea of fast food is a duck.

It seems to be different when the blood is one someone elses hands----hypocrites.

This is engatwork posting at Jeff's house - the fast duck is good.

Jim (engatawork) visited us for dinner last night while he's in Michigan. He tasted the reason we love wild game so much!!!!!!

Thanks again for visiting Jim!!!!

I sure would be interested in a thread like that, especially if the emphasis is on rather fast (say less than an hour to make, preferably less than 1/2 hour, unless alot of the time is just letting something cook in the oven).

Some easy things to make are like baked potatos, not much easier than that, or heating frozen vegetables. that's pretty healthy stuff. I got a new Weber grill this year and have been grilling alot, sometimes on my day off I'll fire it up and grill a chicken breast. Several times this year I grilled asparagus on the grill, that was some GOOD eating. Can't wait for it to be in season again. I also did fresh corn on the cob, grilling it the "Weber" way, worked out pretty good also.

One of my wifes favorite things for me to make is an apple crisp recipe in one of the cookbooks we have. Pretty basic stuff: flour, butter, salt, sugar, cinnamon and apples. I hate recipes with alot of ingredients.

Gilly

I only cook usually for my wife and I. It's nice to have a cheap meal, but not the primary concern i guess you could say. Cheap is good, but not if I have to make 2 gallons of it, but these are good ideas. My wife prefers "turkey burger" over the real beef stuff, I tolerate the turkey burger OK and will use it, but occasionally a steak (1) makes it onto the Weber. My wife has a favorite salad dressing already (henri's tastee). We only buy 3 or so bottles of that a year.

In "dump soup", do you use something for a soup stock, like boullion cubes or what? Or a can of soup stock?

The hamburger helper I'd probably like OK, but my wife kinda freaks about the prepared foods like that, especially the sodium. We do use the "meal in a bag" things because of time and convenience, and eat out about twice a week, various types of carry-out. We also do the ocassional small frozen pizza.
We're getting a "Papa Murphys" near here, we'll probably like that. In case this is more of a regional thing, Papa Murphys is a place that makes a fresh pizza, but doesn't cook it, you take it home and cook it.

Gilly

One thing for sure if you have a steamer for rice and veggies, a george foreman grill and some good seasoning you can cook great meals in 30 minutes or less.

On the weekends, I do the cooking. My wife never really learned how to cook but she does bake.

Since I see people here are using the Weber (best grills ever made) I will give you a nice recipe for Chicken Sandwiches that can be grilled.

Ingredientes:
Boneless Chicken Breast
Onions
Crushed Red Pepper
Salt (if you can swing by an Argeninian butcher store, I recomend that you purchase the Grilling Salt "Sal Parillera" very good salt!)
Olive Oil
Bacon
Chedder Cheese
Fresh French Baquette

Prepare:
Dice about one onion.
Place in a bowl the chicken breast, a little salt, diced onion, 1/4 cup olive oil and little crushed red pepper (about 1/2 table spoon for 4-6 breasts)

Set up the grill (I prefer natural charcoal grills) and nuke the bacon strips about 2 strips per sandwich.
Grill the breasts, at the end, place chedder cheese over the breasts for melting. Serve on fresh baquette with bacon strips and toppings of your choice, i.e. mayonaise, lettuce, tomatos.

Whole time to prepare 4 sandwiches is about 45 minutes.
Note, since you aer using crushed red peeper the sandwich is little spicy but very tasty!

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Either my wife or myself cook 5 times out of the week. We really like it and make time for it.

On the other hand, I have cousins who don't want to make the effort to learn or try and prefer eating Wendy's on a daily basis.

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This is my dinner for tonight, he's not huge but I stalked and shot him at 5 yards with bow and arrow. His tender loins are marinating in bacon vinegarette. i'm not wearing camo because I take it off after the hunt so i don't stink it up with sweat, also some people find it odd to see hard core hunters that wear patagonias, and polo jeans

Anti hunters need not reply.

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm...............

Venison sausage
Venison steaks
Venison ribs
Venison burgers
Venison roast
Venison stew....

About all I can think of at the moment. (Yes, I'm hungry)

Nice catch.

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

I've never had the opportunity to try deer meat, but I hear its delicious. My mother has tried some when he father hunted back in Poland. Are there restaurants that serve deer meat? or is this something that someo one has to do on their own... as in take out your weapon and carving knife and go find it?