Something else with the jalapenos

Why not?  They are still making peppers, so we're still making up things to do with them!  lol

This time we took some pork breakfast sausage, cream cheese, salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder and mixed it all up.

We halved the peppers and stuffed them with the mixture.

Then they went on the grill in a foil packet.  I was trying to see if we could use this for a camp out that's coming up.

They would have looked better done in the oven and run under a broiler, but while camping that won't be an option, so I just did the foil pack.  They don't look that great, but they did taste good.  I did 19 peppers and there were none left.  That's a venison steak next to them on the plate.  Yum!

Replenishing the freezer

The good Lord blessed us with deer this weekend.  It made or a busy, productive and thankful weekend.
I package things in pretty big packages since there are six of us in this house.

Here is the breakdown so far:

Deer 1:
Roasts - 4 packages, 7 pounds
Jerky meat - 1 package, 2 pounds
Back strap - 2 packages, 3 pounds
Stew meat - 4 packages, 5 pounds
Grinder meat 1 package, 2 pounds
(This will be made into sausage/summer sausage/ground venison later on.)

Deer 2:

Roasts - 2 packages, 4 pounds
Backstrap - 3 packages, 5 pounds
Steaks - 1 package, 2 pounds
Stew meat - 8 packages, 8 pounds
Grinder meat - 1 package, 6 pounds
Jerky strips ready to marinade - 1 package, 2 pounds

The guys field dress them before they bring them home and then skin and quarter them and then I take over processing and packaging.  They kept me busy this weekend!

Not counting left overs, that's 28 meals in the freezer, almost 50 pounds of meat.  It's a GREAT start to refilling the freezer and while I'm tired, I'm very happily tired.

Oh! I forgot!

Who, me, forget something?  LOL!

I was looking at the pictures on the camera and realized I forgot to come back and update you on the freezer.  It's all finished.

Just as a refresher, here are the before pics:

The during (just so you know I really did defrost it and clean it):

The afters:

Top shelf is chicken, next is pork, next is beef and venison.  There are a whopping eight packages of venison left in there.  Glad deer season is coming up.  Last year deer season ended here because we ran out of freezer space.

This year I'm going to can some venison, just because I've never done it before.  Plus, bonus!, I have this beauty in the basement that we can fill up.  Right now it's unplugged but I plan to put JUST venison in it, that way everything won't get all mixed up again.  It belongs to the landlord but she doesn't have room for it at her home, so she leaves it here and said we could use it.  Woohoo!