Delicious & Insanely Yummy Grilled Bacon Wrapped Venison Backstrap

 

 

Bacon Wrapped Venison Backstrap

Cooking Time 15 minutes

Prep Time 20 minutes

Level Easy Easy

 

 

Ingredients:

 

= Backstrap Tenderloins if not precut simply cut into two inch slices only cut enough to stuff. It should look like a open book. 

= One package of thick sliced bacon (I use my own wild hog or Wrights)

= One package of Cream Cheese Softened

= Some good quality sliced cheese about an inch thick or shredded whatever floats your boat

= Two Peppers thinly sliced ( I used Jalapenos with seeds still in but I like it HOT) 

= Tooth Picks for securing wraps.

 

 

 

For the marinade Combine In a large Ziploc Baggie:

                 = 2 heaping tablespoons of apricot jelly

                 = 3 Tablespoons of Oil ( I used EVOO)

                 = Generous Helping of Salt and Pepper

                 = 2 Cloves Grated Garlic or Garlic Salt

                 = Half a can of Dr. Pepper or Soda of your choice

                 = Splash of Soy Sauce

                 = Two or Three Sprigs of fresh Rosemary Chopped

                 = Two tsps. of butter

 

Directions:

 

1. Pre-Heat your Grill (Can be done in Oven as well).
2. Combine all of the marinade ingredients to a Ziploc bag. Place your Backstrap Tenderloin pieces in the mixture. Seal & toss the bag around to coat the meat. Place in refrigerator for at least 24hrs.
3. Gather up your cheese, peppers, and bacon. Make an assembly line. Have all your indgredents ready to wrap your Tenderloins.
4. Remove Backstrap from Ziploc careful to not spill your marinade juices. Reserve for cooking.
5. One at a time, open Tenderlion and fill with cheese and peppers. Fold Tenderlion and wrap tightly with bacon.
6. Place a tooth pick thru the center to secure bacon.
7. Set aside in pan and finish the rest.
8. On the grill cook directly on the rack. Watch closely and flip every 6 mins to ensure bacon gets crisp on all sides. I randomly poor teaspoons of the remaining marinade over the lil nuggets of heaven. If cooking in the oven, Preheat to 450* and bake on a foil lined pan for 20-25 mins depending on desired level of done you like.

     9.  ENJOY!

 

 

 

This recipe is amazing. I make it all the time. It will surely please those that never had Venison or Skeptical about it. There is something so beautiful about harvesting your food and it is even better with this SHOW STOPPER Recipe! Hope ya'll enjoy!

Back to the basics.....

 

Howdy Friends! This is my very first Blog so please be kind. =)
Growing up in Texas I had the privilege of being taught the importance of the outdoors. I shot my first Riffle at age 9, a 22-250 Remington. It was not to long following that I got my first Duck. I still remember the feeling I got when my mom fried up my Duck in her Fry Daddy. It was the best food I had ever eaten. I remember how proud I felt & I knew from that moment the outdoors and I would always share a faithful relationship.  Now watching my first son's eye's light up when he watches me fry up his first Duck, I can not help but wonder if that same fire is igniting in him. When hunter's tell other's it is not a hobby it's a lifestyle. This could not be any more true. For me including, there is a certain simplicity that I feel in the woods. The quietness that echo's from mother nature that sings to my soul. When you find this it makes it very difficult to do anything but get more of that feeling. It creeps on you at times and settles in the deep chambers of your heart at which no one could possible remove. It becomes instinctive to bring other's into this world. Your mind becomes one track, how can I do this for a living, how can grow as a hunter, how can I manage my hunting environment to produce a greater population.  It begins as a whisper & grows into a fire that is not easily extinguished. Hunting is a lifestyle. We celebrate our season's and grow from one to the next. How we can be persecuted for taking our own meat is beyond me. The majority of America has  forgotten how their ancestors paved the way so they could sit around and judge hunter's for taking there own foods when they are here because of the very reason they degrade us hunter's for. In the beginning America was founded & survived with a Gun & Bow in hand. We can not apologize for wanting to get back to the basic's of our heritage. Especially in a time that is has been so vastly forgotten by most. Where America think's it okay to buy your steak from the local Walmart that come's from feed lots & is often slaughtered with blunt force trauma to the head. While us hunter's watch our food, careful to obey laws to protect our Wildlife. We consider if they are old enough, producer's or cull. We realize that to mange we must conserve. This anger of Hunter's in our country will only make us grow. It will only make us stronger. We realize now more than ever our Great America need's us now. That the basic's of our liberties must be protected. In this instance of my son watching his mom fry up his very first duck. I can only hope that if I am doing everything right he will watch his first son or daughter's eye's as he fry's up their first duck.