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[Gordo]

I had some backstrap I needed to cook, so I went to the recipe forum on our Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks http://www.mdwfp.com website.  If yall hunt or fish, you will appreciate this site.  It is choc full of Missippi (that's how we say that) redneck country fellers, but that is the way we like it. 

Anyway, on the website somebody else asked for a "tenderloin" recipe and a person answered, and I tried it.  I cleaned up the backstrap good, then butterflied it, then stuffed it with creamcheese, sweet cherry peppers and sauteed onions and garlic.  I then wrapped it in you-know-what and smoked it in my Bradley low and slow until just done.  I smoked several of them, and had plenty of left overs.  I vacuum sealed four of them after wrapping them in cling wrap.  I used the cling wrap because of the bacon.  Otherwise it is like trying to vacuum seal pudding...well, as some may know, a vacuum seal does about the same thing as a Reveo (sp?).  When I heated it back up in the bag (with a pot of hot water of course), the bacon grease was sucked into the meat.  Boy Howdy was it good.

Here are some pictures.









And here is a shot of a cutting board me and my Dad made.  I don't think it will ever see a knife, but boy it is pretty.

[Tiny Tim]

Nice lookin' board...and meat too (hold the veggies from mine :D ).

[iceman]

Awesome Gordo. That would be a hard one to top in my book. Backstrap is so tender to begin with, then to stuff it and slow smoke. Wow! ;D Ya done good!

[icerat4]

Thats the one thing that kills me here.The great looking results ;D.I have now lost 40 lbs and this is the kinda stuff which makes it really tuff not to just say awww go for it ::).Great looking stuff.Ya know im still smoking alot of stuff .But 95 percent of the stuff i do gets handed out to friends clients and such ;D ;).So these pics really are great eye candy.BUT HANDS OFF FOR ME :-\.For now until i meet my ideal weight which is 5 more pounds.From 220-225 down to 175  ;).Then i can learn better to maintain instead of being oa yo yo diet.So keep the pics comming i can take it  ;D

[Wildcat]

That looks great Gordo, but I do not know what backstrap is. ???

[Gordo]

The muscle that runs on either side of the spine from the shoulders to the hindquarters of a deer.  There are only two words you can use to describe it....




Nummer nummies.

[iceman]

That looks great Gordo, but I do not know what backstrap is. ???

Equal to the beef tenderloin............only better! ;D Just MHO

[Wildcat]

Thanks.  I love venison! ;D

[LilSmoker]

Wow! that is great looking food!, wish i was at the table when that's served  ;)

[Habanero Smoker]

Nice looking, and I'm sure it tastes great.

[West Coast Kansan]

Gordo - OUTSTANDING  :P Tongue waggling and  :-* lip smacking effect in those pictures

[Kummok]

Well done, Gordo!! Up here, 1st born children are traded for Caribou backstrap.....yer recipe makes me start considering including the 2nd bench group!! :o ;) ;D

[jaeger]

Looks very good Gordo!
Nice work on the cutting board and thanks for the link!

[PigOut]

Is backstrap the tenderlon or a different cut ?

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PS. Do you ask the butcher for backstrap or is this a smokers term ?