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...

For New Year's Eve, I finally got the chance to make my bison brisket that's been torturing me from my fridge for quite some time. We needed to use it for a photoshoot for my site, which is one of my favorite parts of my job, as that usually means I get a delicious, albeit, slightly cold dinner out of the deal. However, this brisket was a monster 5 lb. hunk of meat, which meant after we were done enjoying brisket, roasted potatoes and gravy I put most of the bison brisket back in the fridge to save for later... and thus, the plotting began! The following day, we were planning to have a couple extra people over to celebrate the New Year, so I thought I would use the leftover bison brisket to make a special meal: Bison Brisket fajitas. My first step was to take out the remaining brisket and cut it up. (Fun fact: There was so much brisket left over, I didn't even use all of it here. Stay tuned for another post.)

So this was kind of a weird meal... definitely protein packed, as you can tell from the title! The story is it snowed all night and all day. It was cold and icy and since I work from home most days, there was nothing forcing me to leave the house all day. So, I was resolved to stay inside and NOT scrape off my car just to go to the grocery store. So I made this meal using ingredients I already had in my house. The awesome thing is it doesn't take much: Eggs, Flour, Water, Onions, Butter & Steak! Egg dumplings are one of the meals my dad would make when I was growing up. I don't make them often, but I like to have them every once in awhile. They're not hard to make, they're incredibly cheap and I like the way the taste. My biggest complaint is just that I can never think of anything to really  go with them. But I've been thinking for awhile, that steak might be an interesting way to complement them, so I decided to give it a try!

Bison Meat is becoming increasingly popular -- and it's easy to see why. Doing the majority of my business online, I don't always get the opportunity to speak directly with my customers, however, I do have Farmers Market customers and those who call my customer service line to place their orders via telephone. In speaking with those customers, I have found myself in several instances where they are telling me all the reasons they like bison meat, or have converted entirely to bison instead of beef, and I find myself smiling, nodding along, and saying the same thing: "Yup! Bison really is an easy product to sell. There's just not really a downside."  In case you haven't properly been introduced to bison yet... let me fill you in on the secret: Bison is a lean meat. It's low in calories, cholesterol and fat compared to other meats. Bison is raised free-range, on grass for most of its life. Most ranchers take pride in raising their herd humanely and h...

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...