The Bison Girl :: a lifestyle of good cooking, good eating & living well

Earlier this week, I showed off the delicious bison fajitas I made with leftover bison brisket . I promised to show another delicious meal I made from the same brisket as well. So here it is: a Hot Bison Brisket Sandwich -- even easier to make than the fajitas! I don't know what it is, but lately I've been really into hot sandwiches, particularly meaty ones. It's probably the lack of burgers in my life due to winter, I suppose. So, once I had the original meal of bison brisket with potatoes and gravy and the second meal of brisket fajitas, there was enough of the bison remaining for about 2 of these sandwiches. Although since it was just me this evening I only made one. You can see from the picture, this is no small sandwich and has quite a lot of meat on it. It's no skimpy sandwich, that's for sure. The assembling of these sandwiches is super easy. And it's one of those things, you can be free with and make your own! I'll put what I did in the...

Okay... so to start off this post, I have something to admit... sometimes I eat beef (although usually it's only at restaurants). Honestly, it's not often, I can't tell you the last time I purchased ground beef. And I will also admit that while I LOVED this meal I'm about to share with you, I would have loved it even more if I had been able to make it with bison (which I eventually plan to!). BUT I really wanted a roast beef sandwich and our Farmers Market Sales have been STELLAR this year and so there just wasn't any bison roasts available for me to use! So I found myself at the meat counter at my local grocery store, picking out a nice, lean beef roast. As I said, I plan to eventually (hopefully sometime this fall/winter) adapt this recipe for a bison roast as well, but for the meantime, this sandwich was so good, I want to share the beef version now! If you'd like to go ahead and adapt this recipe for bison yourself, I would recommend loweri...

I moved into my first apartment nearly 8 years ago now. Can that really be right?! The point of me bringing this up is to say that in 8 years of living in a home with my own kitchen, providing for myself, and cooking for myself, I can honestly say I never had the urge to make sloppy joes until just a couple months ago. I've always been of the mindset: "Why would you make a sloppy joe, when it's the same ingredients as a burger... and then you could just have a burger?!" But for some reason, just a few months ago, I really just wanted a sloppy joe. So I went against all my instincts and started browning up some bison burger instead of forming it into patties and throwing them on the grill. And to tell you the truth... I REALLY liked it! So, here I am yesterday, going back through old instagram pictures and came across my sloppy joe image and I thought: "Yup... I'm hungry for that again." So, I thawed out another pound of ground bison and got to work...

Earlier this week, I inundated my  NebraskaBison.com Instagram feed  with several braggy pictures about what I was cooking that night. I was trying something new - and was so excited about it... I couldn't help but show off a little bit. Meatball subs honestly aren't something I eat on a regular basis–or ever–but for some reason the other day I got it in my head that I wanted a meatball sub, and darn it, I was going to make one! You see, I've been on a meatball kick lately. I've made a couple batches of  really good bison meatballs  and just continue to be hungry for them. So naturally, a bison meatball sub seemed like a great idea!

I LOVE bison burgers. I suppose that's probably a given, since you're on a website called "The Bison Girl." I also love sharing bison burgers with friends and family and introducing them to how awesome bison burgers can taste. My cousin recently moved to Lincoln and she still hadn't had a bison burger yet, so after she got settled in, I invited her over for one. Over the few years I've been associated with my company, I have come to cook many bison burgers, and, I think, I've gotten pretty good at it. As burgers have always been one of my favorite foods, and I realized some time ago that I always enjoyed them even more in steak houses or burger restaurants, I taught myself some time ago how to cook a restaurant quality burger. When it comes to bison burgers, my theory is that you're paying extra for this better quality meat, you should make a better quality burger. Don't skimp on any of the ingredients. You might think I have a lot of st...