Freezer mishap leads to lots of cooking

[DV1]

My daughter failed to completely close the door of our stand up freezer in the basement and the result was several packages of meat partially, or fully thawed. Of course, they were the smaller ones...like tenderloins and backstraps.

So, spent last weekend moving the frozen food, defrost, then cleaning the freezer, and then restocking it. What was defrosted, got cooked. Made a few foil pans of venison parm, 3 pans of beef (venison tenderloin) and broccoli and roast venison...like roast beef. All the foil pans went back in the freezer and will be used later as pre-cooked meals. The roast was eaten this week. No pics of the broccoli dish but the parm came out good and the roasted backstrap...roast beef style...was excellent. Had a few thick cut slices with a horseradish cream sauce, and thin sliced the leftover chunk for roast venison sandwiches...on a club roll with the sauce, swiss and banana peppers. 

 

[tick trawler]

It was a good practice run for all the power outages we get around here.  Looks like some really good meals.

[Nanuk]

Dishes Look Great 👍

DO you have the recipe for the hoarse radish sauce ??? I usually combo apple butter and hoarse radish with some mustard makes a great pairing with Pork or Venison .

[TouchofGrey]

They look delicious. Not a bad time of year to meal prep, never enough time at the holidays.

[rackemup]

Good job!! When you get lemons you make lemonade...... but you made some delicious looking meals!!!

Glad you were able to save it!

[Joeybeets]

Some good eats right there. 

[BowhunterNJ]

Lemons into lemonade!  Good reason to enjoy lots of venison!

[jerseyhunter]

Glad you were able to salvage it, could have been worse.

[BillW0323]

looks good. glad you were able to save it. 

[Rusty]

Glad you caught it when you did and were able to save the meat.  Looks yummy.  

[NorthJerseyMike]

That roast venison looks great.

[CatchinDeers243]

That looks delicious 

[Hitemnasty]

Wireless freezer alarm will prevent this from happening in future. They work well, I have the display on my fridge and the sensor in the chest freezer down in the basement. 

[mazzgolf]

I know its late now, but, you should get one of those wireless temperature gauges ... it would have alerted you to the problem before it was too late. Last year I posted a thread on a gadget I bought, can't find the thread now but.. I know @Haskell_Hunter got saved because the same thing happened to him but he had one of those gadgets so he got saved.

[Live to Hunt]

Looks awesome