Bear Meat

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(10-22-2020, 08:14 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: It's currently archery bear season in my neck of the woods, and firearm season is in month. Black bear is one of my favorite animals, and also one of my favorite to hunt and eat. I was just wondering if there were any fellow believers in bear meat around here.

I'm 100% a believer in any game meat; I love it all, though I've only had bear (black bear, to be exact, which I believe is the most-common bear species eaten) twice in my life: first time was minced, in a tomato sauce with pasta (Italians ruin things sometimes), the second was sliced from a roast done in the oven, with a reduced red-wine/bear juice (IE the natural juices from the bear) sauce (my dad made it; he makes most of his game sauces like this, it's a French Provencal/Northern-Italian style of cooking) and it was superb, not too fatty and not too lean.

Not sure of what cut it was though... still, delicious.

As my dad only owns shotguns and doesn't do anything big-game (Canada Goose, Ducks and wild Turkey are what he goes for), we only eat big-game from what we're given... but, as mentioned, we don't complain; we love it all.