Game Feed - Ham lake

[Harmonica Bear]

Hey FM'ers,

The culinary skills and expertise of Dirty Biker, 2X4, and me, Harmonica Bear, will be on display next weekend Sunday 3/11/07

The Ham Lake Sportsman's Club is having our annual Wild Game Feed (as well as a turkey shoot) this Sunday 3/11/07 from Noon until 3:00 pm (shooting until 5). We welcome any and all of you to stop by and enjoy some great wild game dishes. The menu this year is beyond compare:

Grilled marinated venison (elk or moose if available)

Smoked venison (elk or moose if available)

Venison Chile

Venison Salisbury steak with sauce

Mushroom, zucchini and leek cream sauce venison meatballs

Polynesian venison meatballs

Pulled Venison sandwiches

Venison / elk stir-fry

Venison / moose Burritos/Taco’s

Venison Dago’s

Venison kabobs

Venison summer sausage

Venison stew

Pheasant wild rice soup

Pheasant in Chipotle sauce with pasta

Grilled marinated pheasant

Pickled northern pike

Venison jerky

The Game Feed is free, although donations are accepted. This year all proceeds will go to Cancer Research. Beverages will be available as well. Our club is located in Ham Lake, 1 and 1/4 mile east of Hwy 65 (Central) on Constance Blvd. Come early if you can!

Hope to see some of you there.

Mike Baermann a.k.a. Harmonica Bear

[Tom Linderholm]

Sounds like a great set-up Harmonica Bear, wish it was a little closer to home. I hope you get a great turn-out.

[Tom Linderholm]

Well Gentleman, how did it turn out?

[Harmonica Bear]

Hey - Everyhing tunred out pretty good. The food was awesome. The turn-out was so-so. We figured we served around 180 - 200 people (we had food for another 100). We raised a little money for the Breast Cancer folks, so all went well. I will try and get some pics posted tomorrow.

[Harmonica Bear]

Pictures -

The Cooks: Harmonica Bear, Dirty Biker (like you couldn't tell), 2X4

[2x4]

Hey Bear, Thanks for the great pics. As you can see I am one of the cooks in his pictures. This function is a great opportunity to try some wild game for people who are not used to eating wild game. I would like to thank Cheffy for a great antelope recipie..(not listed above). We always like to try something new that no one has ever tried before. As a former VP and also President (Bear was my VP)I know the amount of work that it takes to put on a function like this. We have our game feed every second Sunday of March, every year. All of our proceeds go to a charity function such as the Breast Cancer Foundation, The Lupus Foundation, Spinal Chord Foundation, local Veterans Association, Hunt of a Lifetime...etc. If you are interested in tasting some really good food and have some proceeds go to a good cause, please mark it on your calendars for next year. We would love to have more people try our delicious food and also help out charity.

Thanks

[Stiff]

I was within a breath of attending this event and my day just grew into too many things and something had to give.

In hindsight and having seen the pics, I really regret not having made it. I hope you guys do this again next year.

[DIRTY BIKER]

Bear nice Pics they turned out great! Food was excellent for all who missed it,Just remember as 2X4 said and not miss it next year.Bear,2X4 I am still thawing out meatballs,pulled veni for lunches people dont know what they missed!

[2x4]

We are doing it again this year!!! March 16 same time same place. Hope to see all of you that couldn't make it last year.

[2x4]

Game feed is on again this year. It is on March 15th. Same deal as previous years.

[Leaky]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to take a ride up. If not, good luck in your fund raising. The prior years pics look awesome.

[Harmonica Bear]

Anyone that can, you should try and make it. Definitely good eats. It was touch and go lining up the venison this year. A big thank you to the MDHA for coming through.

[Ice Shack Baby]

Bumping this again to the top since there are some great pictures.

This is happening again on Sunday March 14th. Noon to 4 pm.

Join us for an opportunity to taste some wild game from the Midwest. Menu Includes:

Grilled Marinated Venison

Smoked Venison

Venison Chile

Venison Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy

Mushroom and Leek Cream Sauce Meatballs

Polynesian Venison Meatballs

Venison / Elk Stir-fry

Venison / Moose Burritos / Tacos

Venison Dagos

Venison Kabobs Venison Summer Sausage

Pulled Venison Sandwiches

Pheasant Wild Rice Soup

Pheasant Dumpling Soup

Grilled Marinated Pheasant

Pickled Northern Pike

Venison Jerky

And probably more.

We will be having a game shoot for meat prizes. Bring your gun and steel shot to win some meat!!!!

ISB -- formerly known as 2 x 4

[Harmonica Bear]

The Ham Lake Sporstmans Club is one of the last small trap ranges in the metro.

It is a pretty cool event if you want to try a bunch different wild game recipes. Price is right as well. A donation is all thats needed for more food then you can possibly eat.

[tomfromblaine]

I looking forward to coming I've wanted to attend since the 07 event but life just didn't let me, so far I have my buddys family and my daughter and I, hopefully we can join in on the shooting fun, how many boxes of shells would a guy need?

Tom

[Harmonica Bear]

I don't have all the shooting details. But I beleive it will be meat shoot games. Which usually consist of rounds of 5 shots from 5 different stations against 5 different shooters. Who gets the most, gets a meat prize (or maybe $ if we run out). Also Annie Oakley's, Backups etc. We only have two trap houses and I am not sure if the 2nd house wll be open to shoot regular trap. I hope that helps. Look forward to it!

*****Oh - and due to political pressure we can ONLY SHOOT STEEL SHOT******

We do have shells there to purchase if needed, which I beleive are not over-priced.

[tomfromblaine]

Thanks Harmonica Bear, Can't wait till sunday

Tom

[tomfromblaine]

Well Fellow FM'rs if you didn't know what to do with your selves yesterday and you didn't show up you sure missed out on a great time.

I met up with Harmonica Bear, Dirty Biker, and Ice Shack Baby, Mark and the rest of the crew and they were cooking food like crazy, and they started the day before, and of course there was everything from Antelope to Venision and some along with Pheasant stew and all of it was excellent. I don't think you will ever meet a nicer bunch of people. Getting a chance to do some shooting was a blast, my buddies and I had alot of fun with that, turned out a younger fella kicked every bodys rear end and I saw him getting his prizes out of the meat freezer when I left. Hopefully next year this event can be listed in FM'rs get together section.

Tom PS Harmonica bear whats your email I would like a couple of those receipes

[Harmonica Bear]

Hey - thanks for the kind words. It was good to meet you as well and glad you had a good time. We could not have asked for better weather, it was a great turn out and the food was crazy good. I didn't get a chance to shoot, I was just too busy! When I did get break in the action it was time for a beer. I counted at one time we whad 21 different dishes out banquet style at one time. That's nuts! Ah, but soooo good!

Thanks for showing up, it is a pretty cool event.

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