Dusky grouse?
#1
Dusky grouse?
While out hunting this yesterday, I harvested two dusky grouse (blue). I got them cleaned and on ice in about two hours. I plucked them, and marinated them in garlic, onion, teriyaki, and white wine. I backed them with poultry spices, onions, salt and pepper.
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
#2
While out hunting this yesterday, I harvested two dusky grouse (blue). I got them cleaned and on ice in about two hours. I plucked them, and marinated them in garlic, onion, teriyaki, and white wine. I backed them with poultry spices, onions, salt and pepper.
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
#3
While out hunting this yesterday, I harvested two dusky grouse (blue). I got them cleaned and on ice in about two hours. I plucked them, and marinated them in garlic, onion, teriyaki, and white wine. I backed them with poultry spices, onions, salt and pepper.
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
It was awful. It had a sour milk flavor. Super yucky. What did I do wrong?
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Keep it simple.....you probably know the rest.
As Oldtimr said you may have added too many spices.
I like to cook Grouse and any other wild fowl, with just a couple spices. Usually salt and pepper, or sometimes lemon pepper.
But I do have to ask, where did you harvest these birds? What was in their crop? That CAN have an deleterious affect on their flavor.
#4
I don't know that the change of spices would remove or lighten that horrible smell / taste that the species has. I want to prevent that from being the flavor I had. I have had grouse prepared by others that did not have that horrible smell translate into that flavor in the final product.
But, I would like to try them with less. See how that goes.
But, I would like to try them with less. See how that goes.
#8
Their gullet was full of thistle leaves and seeds.
But, I am really asking a prep questions here. Grouse stink. We know that. It is possible to prepare them in a way that they don't taste like that stink. I failed at it. How is it done?
But, I am really asking a prep questions here. Grouse stink. We know that. It is possible to prepare them in a way that they don't taste like that stink. I failed at it. How is it done?
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Southern NH
Posts: 499
Just google Blue grouse Recipe . There are a few good ones. They say a Blue Grouse is just another name for a Dusky.
This one sounds good
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/ar...seshallots.htm
This one sounds good
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/ar...seshallots.htm