Wildebeest Stew

Our home fellowship group from church has interesting perks.  On Tuesday night, Chris and Martha Kangwa decided to pass out kilos of bush meat that Chris brought home on one of his hunting trips.  With a love for the wild African bush, Chris is a skilled hunter and adventurist.  We’d never prepared, much less eaten Wildebeest before, but when we were handed a frozen package of it… we were all smiles.  Wildebeest is also known as the Gnu, and comes from the antelope family.  So we figured we could handle the challenge.  Andrea did the majority of the research and was told that wildebeest tastes as good as it looks.  We’re not really sure what that was supposed to mean, but wildebeest aren’t exactly handsome looking.  Check out how the meat was looking. Uncertain about how to proceed, Andrea posted a request for suggestions on her facebook page.  Ideas trickled in such as wrapping the meat in pawpaw leaves for tenderizing, and seasoning with ground coffee.  In the end, Andrea incorporated several ideas and prepared an aromatically wild stew.  It definitely had a wild game smell, that I imagined Esau would have been excited about.  And it was actually very tender meat indeed.  We actually invited the Kangwas over to enjoy it with us, but figured we should serve it as a side meat alongside  chicken just in case it wasn’t up to snuff.  The picture at the far top was a snap that the marksman himself took of the herd he was stalking, though I’m not sure which one of them ended up on our plate.