At this last rendezvous, Dry Dog marinaded a beef roast in Italian Dressing and Soy Sauce for a few hours and then cooked it up on the BBQ.  He shared this delight with none other than lucky me.  It was deeeelliiishiiioouuussss!!!  Thank you Mr. Dry Dog!  A little crunchy on the outside and that is just how I like my burnt fat on a steak.  Boy was that a great meal.

So, at home the next week, Sherry and I decided to try that marinade on some venison steaks….Now these steaks aren’t the big ol juicy steaks you buy at the store with T bones or Rib bones tucked in them.  These are plain old deboned, no fat venison steaks.  Not too big, but just right for a meal for older people like us.

I BBQed them babies up but I did not over cook them.  Most folks think they have to make jerky out of game meat in order to kill of the wild things that get into wild game meat.  People, let me assure you there are probably less wild things in wild game meat than the wild things in the meat you are buying in the store.

So, they went into the warming oven to wait until we got all the other fixins ready to eat.  They were very good!  I mean they were VERY GOOD!  Good enough that Dry Dog and I are going to have a meal of venison steak marinaded in Italian dressing and Soy sauce on the muzzle load hunt coming up in a couple of weeks.

It is so simple it’s almost a crime.  One cup of Italian Dressing (Zesty is good), and one cup of Soy Sauce (low sodium is good).  Put the meat and marinade in a baggie and let it sit in the fridge for 4 or more hours.  Take the meat out and put it on the BBQ, watch it sizzle, take a drink of beer, flip it over, baste the side you just cooked with some of the marinade.  Take a drink of beer, flip it over, baste that side with the marinade.  Take it off the grill and put it in a covered dish and toss it in the warming oven….OR better yet, put it on a plate and eat it.

You won’t be disappointed!  I’ll bet it would be good with Elk, Moose, Buffalo, Caribou, Mountain Goat, Duck, Goose, Pheasant, Quail, Ptarmigan, Lamb or maybe even Cougar or Beaver.

Bears Butt

Sept. 2011