Neck Roast

[leechlake]

Buddy of mine's kid shot a fawn and they brought it over to butcher.  I took the neck roast and am giving it a whirl per Boars suggestion.  I've browned the little feller and just put it in the oven and I'm thinking it will be done for a little 11pm snack when I get home from my son's hockey game.  I will post photos but it looks like a browned roast right now.  I'm guessing the age of the deer may help out, problem is only got one smallish roast from it.

Edited December 8, 2015 by leechlake

[Boar]

tender tender vittles. hope it works for ya, if not blame smurf....

[bobberineyes]

LL, you can always count on us foodies coming over and babysitting a roast while your busy at the rink. We'll even bring our own forks..

[Boar]

and gravy!!!

[smurfy]

Oh do I got a recipe for venny neck roasts. But you'll all need to wait till tomorrow.

[Boar]

whats that?  you add smurf berry crunch! lol

[leechlake]

hands down the best venison I've ever had.  Tender with absolutely no  "grainy" texture to it.  Actually it was the best roast anything I've ever had  and I may a lot of beef roasts in the Fall and Winter.  I may give it a gigantic college try to shoot a deer this weekend that has two roasts on it.  

Bone in, seared it for about 1/2 hour including heating up the liquid I added.  Threw it in oven at 275 for 3-1/2 hours.  Amazing.  Thanks Boar!!!

[reinhard1]

Nice looking roast Kris!!!  When I grew up we always kept the neck roasts.  Back then there was no sausage making, just meat eating every part of the deer.  Nothing was ground up [didn't have a grinder anyway].  Of course getting a buck was a big bonus as far as everything goes, especially the neck which had a lot of meat on it.  Just have to clean the air pipe out well and you are good to go.  As time went on and I processed venison in my garage for over 10 years, very few folks requested keeping he neck.  Only a couple of guy's did and they were older gents.  I haven't had a neck roast in years myself simply because I have my noggin set for sausage for the most part.  Glad you had a very nice meal.  good luck.

[Boar]

You bet, glad it worked for you. Its amazing how many peopl I run into that put into sausage and freak out if they dont get the loins, yuk I cant stand the loins, to bloody/gamy tasting, My dads startied giving me neck roast when i was in college, told me what to do, which i told you, and I have meals for a couple days till my freinds found out. Yeah smurf, Boar and college are hard to put in the same sentence, I know.

[smurfy]

whats that?  you add smurf berry crunch! lol

in the words of Archie Bunker,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you meathead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!! over in the deer thread there was a post of your favorite deer camp meals. I posted a venny neck roast was one of our meals.

here's smurf's secret reciepe!!!!!!!!!!! like reiny stated clean the neck up good and proper. no searing, no browning. put a bunch of water in the bottom of roaster. neck roast in. I add a box of the dry lipton onion soup mix, onions, lotz, a bay leaf or 2.  salt and pepper.  bake at 350 till the meat latterly falls away from the bone. its amazing how much meat you get off a neck that was vs deboning.

I usually let it cool and freeze it for later use. keep all the juice. I put it back in roaster heat till hot, take out put on burner and make up gravy, I use either corn starch mixed with water or flower. corn starch thickens faster so be careful. add some kitchen banquet to add flavor and to make a darker gravy. serve over hash browns or American fries smothered or cooked heavily with onions!!!!!!!!!!

 

[deadgooses]

Do you have to leave the bone in?  I just took the meat (roast) off the bone and rolled it up.  Was gonna try this in the crockpot.  I get a little leery about leaving spinal cords in the (wild) stuff I'm eating.

 

[leechlake]

you can roll it for sure.  It seemed that half the recipes on line were rolled and half were including bone.  

[deadgooses]

Thanks, I'll let you know the results when I get around to making it.

 

[smurfy]

been cooking it this way for a lotta years with bone it. I spend a hole lotta time cleaning that neck up. never had any taste funny...............

[leechlake]

I'm thinking its a CWD thought, fair enough, but I licked the spine a bit today.  Pretty sure if it's CWD laden it will straighten me out.

[delcecchi]

Do you have to leave the bone in?  I just took the meat (roast) off the bone and rolled it up.  Was gonna try this in the crockpot.  I get a little leery about leaving spinal cords in the (wild) stuff I'm eating.

 

I wouldn'the worry if not in WI or SE MN.   Besides we don't know that people can get CWD.

[smurfy]

I wouldn'the worry if not in WI or SE MN.   Besides we don't know that people can get CWD.

well I was going to ask you to explain Reb and Boar.........but I wont!!!!!!!!

[Boar]

You go eat your smurfy berry cruch and and take your meds and watch your cartoons , leave the cooking to the adults.

[delcecchi]

Besides, isn't red lake falls a long ways from pine island?