As a family of meat-eaters, Bison has been on our list of meats to try for awhile. Living in Florida, we don't have access to a lot of prime meat that is found in the Midwest. We were excited to find out that High Plain Bison delivered all-natural, American raised Bison directly from the ranch to our home.
High Plains Bison was nice enough to send us something similar to the The Wrigley Field Bison Combo Pack. Our combo had Provolone and Pepperoncini Italian Bison Sausages instead of Wild Rice & Asiago Bison Sausages. We also received 8 Bison Dogs and 2 NY Strip Bison Steaks.
This pleased my husband because he is a HUGE Chicago Cubs fan! Meat and The Cubs— it was a match made in heaven for him.
As soon as the package came, we were ready to dig in! Our bison arrived in a sealed Styrofoam cooler box with dry ice.
Each food item had its own box.
We tried the bison strip steaks first. I let them thaw in cool water and then seared each side in a pan. I then put the steaks in the oven for a few minutes longer. We usually cook our beef steaks medium rare, but I cooked the bison a little longer as I wasn't sure of the flavor.
The NY Strip bison was one of the best steaks I have ever cooked at home! The flavor was similar, but different than beef. It wasn't gamey either, which was my main concern. Bison cooks in ⅓ of the time and ⅓ of the heat compared to beef. Even though I cooked my steak to medium, it is best served rare to medium-rare.
The benefit of bison is that it's naturally lean and lower in saturated fat than beef, chicken, pork, or even salmon. Bison has half the calories of beef and less fat than chicken!
I think if a beef steak and a bison steak were put side by side, I would have a hard time telling which was which.
Later in the week we tried the Bison dogs. The bison hot dogs were outstanding. I could tell the difference between a bison dog and a regular hot dog. The bison dogs was meaty and full of flavor.
Finally we tried the Bison Italian Sausage with Provolone and Pepperoncini. Amazing! The sausage was super flavorful and really delicious. We served these in hoagie rolls with onions, but I could think of 100 different ways to prepare and serve these. I think these were my husband's favorite.
Overall, we loved the bison from High Plains Bison and would order again. The meat tasted great and the delivery and packaging were excellent. I love that High Plains Bison is all natural with no hormones, fillers, antibiotics or artificial ingredients.
You can order online at highplainsbison.com.
I received a sample for the purpose of review, all opinions are my own.
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