Friday afternoons have a special place in my heart. A full, well-worked week of classes and prudent vegetarianism blossom into the promise of a weekend of incremental excess. For, under the Bozeman gloam and persistent penumbra of the Bridgers, I grotesquely transform...into a wild carnivore, needing wild meats to supplicate and regenerate the taught fibers of my lumbering and steely cloak of armor.So, it was with quite serendipity that the hunters of Western Montana were cleaning out their freezers of wild game for a cook-off about an hour west of Bozeman. The main street in Ennis is a classic wild west town, not too different from some of the mining towns around Truckee, CA, and maintaining the rickety facades of a bygone era. It still had a soda pop bar, albeit closed down for the festival.
From TravelMT.com, its description:
Hunters Feed and Wild Game Cook Off is a very popular event for locals, neighbors and visiting hunters. Started as a way to clean out the freezer of last years game before hunting season. Merchants on Main Street cook up exotic wild game dishes and serve their culinary delights in front of their shops.Lining the main street were the warm smiles of proud and earnest cooks of wild meats. They offered in small plastic containers the fruits of their labors in the field and kitchen, all for delicious vote. There were two categories: Chili and Non-chili. And, here, I will list some of the excellent contenders:
- Elk Burger Won-Tons
- "Pesto" Bear Sausage Pizza
- Antelope Bolonese
- Vigilante Stew (secret recipe)
- Outstanding Antelope Enchiladas
- Elk Carne Asada
- Antelope Cream Chease Jalapeno Popper
We took the long way home, around Ennis Lake along a dirt road. Evening on the Madison River:
A herd of white-tailed deer:
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