Wild Tidy Joes
Jul. 29th, 2019 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday we made a batch of Wild Tidy Joes using bison meat. (The original recipe used elk, but it works with a variety of game meats. We've done it with venison too.) I got six cartons of sandwich filling. So that's 6 suppers for the two of us, plus 6-12 lunches for my partner Doug, or 18-24 servings. We paid about $30 for three pounds of bison meat and probably another $10 for additional ingredients. That's about $1.66 to $2.22 per serving. You can put this stuff in a tortilla, a hamburger or hot dog bun, etc. It also makes a great meaty dip for crackers or chips if you don't like the creamy kind.
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Date: 2019-07-31 12:32 am (UTC)However, there are a number of genetically pure bison herds remaining: the one in Yellowstone, which is why people keep fighting over it; several on Indian reservations, which is why people fight over those; and up in Canada where the numbers were never cut down so low as in America.
This comes up every time a white buffalo is born, because it has to be tested pure in order to count, as the most popular beefalo cross with with Charolais, a white breed of cattle.