Tommy Chops, Buff, Eland, and Albert's Buff heart with gravy over Sudza..It's all so good..

eland ,kudu tonges,impala ,buffalo loins .But one of the best meats in the world is water buffalo.

My only experience of Africa is the written word, but many of the old hunters loved giraffe. Does no one today like this meat?

My absolute favorite will be my "next" meal in the bush,,,,,I do like Eland and gemsbok really well,,,, someone mentioned giraffe,,, the worst I ever ate was a steak off an old stink bull,,, the younger ones have been quite good however. 2014 seems just so far away to wait for that next African dinner feast....

White stork

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Porcupine ribs Mmmmmm

You must get someone to pickle then smoke a porcupine, especially a fat bastard caught in the sweet potatoes or pumpkins.

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Originally posted by Wink:
White stork

Wouldn't that be a form of abortion?

I have eaten most all of what has been mentioned and without a doubt, my personal favorite is giraffe.

Best I've had was a bush lunch of Hartebeest filets. Very tender and flavorful.

Eland,buffalo,reedbuck.

Eland, impala backstrap, Kudu biltong.

Mike

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Originally posted by Wink:
White stork

Wouldn't that be a form of abortion?

Eat first, decide later.

Duiker was my favorite, it was served as an appetizer one night.

One of the other meals that really stuck out in my mind from my trip was sable lasagna. The lasagna was great, but combine that with the fact that it was cooked all day buried in a pit in the ground with hot coals in a fly camp ... made it all that much better.

Some pretty amazing stuff comes out of a pretty basic "kitchen."

It's all good. I'd rate Eland, Kudu, Springbok, & Impala at the top, buffalo (ox tail soup). Zebra isn't bad, but you have to get rid of the fat. Only giraffe I've eaten is what they called (in Namibia) chili bits -- diced biltong soaked in peri peri sauce. Wasn't bad. took the place of nuts at the bar.

Gerenuk - awesome backstraps
Warthog
Buff tongue

I Want More!

Lion backstraps are surprisingly light and delicately flavoured.

My wife and I loved the "oxtail soup" we had from my Cape buffalo, but was it the best? Hard to say, since the best spaghetti with meat sauce either of us had ever eaten used ground Impala meat. Absolutely fantastic!

I vote for Kudu tenderloin.

I had Hippo in the Zambezi Delta, our PH had stepped in to help the cook and used a small very sharp knife to remove all tendon and other not good stuff. The meat was tender and very good.
Sitting in camp on the river bank, watching the crocs on the far bank. The Blacks singing, laughing and happy because everyone eats their fill that night. How could it not be an excellent meal.

I was surprised when the Hippo was butchered it had no fat on it.

Mark

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Without a doubt, springbok filets. three times as good as eland tenderloin and I thought, when I first ate Eland, it was the best meat I had ever put in my mouth. Pieter, You must have a better cook/recipe than when I tried Zebra. I am not trying to argue with you but that is the nastiest meat I have ever been fed in Africa. What is the secret because I want another one and I want to prove ME wrong.

No problem. Remove all traces of fat. Rub it with olive oil, add spices and sear it pretty good. Cut it in slices without severing and pour a black pepper sauce over it. Stick it in the oven for 20 minutes and there you go.

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Duiker was my favorite, it was served as an appetizer one night.

A little blue duiker, skinned, gutted and jointed, braised in a big black cast iron pot of NON PC name, filled with potatoes, onions and any other vege's at hand, left to simmer on the edge of a fire all day. Damn! There will be need to fetch a 12 guage in order to keep the other buggers away from the pot. The other great delight is to take the femurs of any of the big animals, cut them in half and stand them open end up in the dying coals of a fire for twenty to thirty minutes, or until firmish. Knock the marrow out onto fresh bread, a dash of salt and pepper, and listen to your arteries gently closing.

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My favorite is fried Gemsbok filet.

I second gemsbok fillet, especially as cooked by Mariesje du Plessis at Sebra Safaris in Namibia. Served with a cold Taffel beer around a campfire, it can't be beat.

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My favorite is fried Gemsbok filet.

I second gemsbok fillet, especially as cooked by Mariesje du Plessis at Sebra Safaris in Namibia. Served with a cold Taffel beer around a campfire, it can't be beat.

I gotta go with the gemsbok filets too - after the ladies left,,,,, we'd look at each other "got any gemsbok filets left?"

IF no, then somehow he had a gemsbok shortly appear that required immediate culling. Marinate all afternoon in olive oil and garlic, medium rare over hot fire, cold beer in hand.

Man food.

Although, the mountain zebra filets were pretty good too!

The meat I like best of all African game is Zebra! I taste almost exactly American Elk, one of my favorite wild game meats!

The one thing I have never eaten is biltong! There is something about meat drying with flies crawling around on it that simply gags me!

Now smoked meat is another thing, and is simply the same meat but placed on racks above mopani coals for a day or so!
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I agree--while not my fav...it is up there...Everyone in camp always gives me greif because I ask for it at least one night.

Here is a nice Zebra steak done in a "Cowboy wok" with spices and a little butter--nice---

Ed

The best I had was Leg of Springbok that had been marinated in yogurt all day.

Giraffe tail is the bomb!

Warthog tenderloin
Eland tenderloin
Nyala tenderloin
or...
Whatever winds up on the plate when I'm hungry!

Mountain reedbuck and Fallow Deer are my favorites.

Any Poaching meat!!!! specially when you are not caught, wow!!! what a taste!!! even CHICKEN of neibhours

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The other great delight is to take the femurs of any of the big animals, cut them in half and stand them open end up in the dying coals of a fire for twenty to thirty minutes, or until firmish. Knock the marrow out onto fresh bread, a dash of salt and pepper, and listen to your arteries gently closing.

Damn, I'd love to try that.

You are a man of class and I'd eat in your camp anyday...

Gerenuk has to be the best, the little guys feed solely on Acacia shoots.

The tastiest game steak I ever had was eland at The Butcher Shop in Joburg (Stanton). As soon as I got home I went to Texas & shot an eland cow & brought most of the meat home (the rest went to a food bank). Good, but African eland was tastier. The tongue from the kudu my wife shot in the Bubye was outstanding. I cannot wait to try buff tongue, hopefully I will in July. Also, I don't know why, but US alligator is much tastier than African crocodile, IMO.

What is my favorite African meat? Whatever I shot yesterday!
Mrs Blacktailer would vote for "her" bushbuck.

Plenty to still try but of what I have eaten I enjoyed Eland by far the most. Ostrich a close second.

Its all good. Favorites are
Gemsbok
Eland
Impala
Wildebeast
Buff

N. America
Moose
Wild Sheep
Elk
Deer

I thought that bushbuck was outstanding. Might not be the best as I haven't tasted everything, but I prefer it to impala which isn't bad. I just shot a cow elk that is probably better than any other wild meat I've ever had. Doesn't need any special marinates or onions, it's great just plain, better than beef.

Probably the "best" I have ever had was a young impala ram that I shot by mistake due to a communication problem between my British/African PH and me concerning whether facing to the left meant my left or the animal's left. I took a lot of grief and the staff reminded me with every apetizer and steak that it was very tender. But it was also very good eating.