Got my bear last night

[Spruce Grouse]

What sort of recipes did you use, and where did you get your supplies?

We just asked at the butcher near by and he sold us a pound or so (lots!) of casings for I think $5. Our grinder KitchenAid attachment came with a sausage stuffing tube that worked well. We tended to overstuff at first, but got the hang of it quick. We re-ground our mix, once seasoned as a way to more thoroughly mix it - not sure if that was necessary.

We have only done venison. We did honey garlic, cut with one part in five pork for a little sizzle. For recipe, we just seasoned, then fried up a wee bit, tasted, and seasoned more until we got it right.

After all that casing, we ended up uncasing a lot to use the sausage meat for Lasagna and used the pasta mill attachment on the kitchen aid to make the lasagna noodles (no need to pre boil fresh lasagna noodles).

 

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[Billy The Kid]

Lots of big bears in NB, maybe not in league with van isle or the QCI but a NBer has a pretty fair shake at shooting a trophy bear.

Congrats

Actually the NB black bears are in league as we have the record for the biggest black bear ever harvested.

IIRC, it was shot near Hartland and topped the scales at over 900+ pounds...