Stuffed Elk Balls w/ Turkey Bacon!

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dukeburger

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Went to the local butcher shop with no ideas for a Thanksgiving gathering appetizer and I came home with 2 pounds of ground elk, 2 pounds of turkey bacon and some fresh mozzarella cheese.

Mixed the ground elk with some brisket fat I ran through the grinder, some Tatonka dust, black pepper, a splash or 4 of woshy sauce. Rolled up some two-bite sized balls and stuffed a small chunk of mozza inside each ball. 

My thought with the bacon was to wrap the meatballs, but it was just too thick to do so, so I cut some small pieces to "sandwich" the meatballs with and used toothpicks to hold them together. Gave them all a light sprinkle of rib rub to finish.

Smoked these with hickory on the WSM at around 215 degrees for a couple hours. Thinned out some BBQ sauce with some beer, dunked each ball and smoked again for another 20 minutes. 

It took everything in my power not to eat all of these that night. 

Packed these in a deep alumunum tray with a thin layer of sauce on the bottom, and heated up in the oven the next day before serving.



The snow arrived this weekend 
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I'm thinking of calling these "Telky Balls" 
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Yeah we had a week of winter a week ago. No snow in town but we did get some up in the mountains. It was chilly though! Then the last two days we were back into the high 70's. This week though is going to be more fall like.
 
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Yeah we had a week of winter a week ago. No snow in town but we did get some up in the mountains. It was chilly though! Then the last two days we were back into the high 70's. This week though is going to be more fall like.
I think the snow will hold off this week and will be more of a typical fall. We won't see temps even close to 70 until June though!
 
Duke They look great I have only had Elk once it was fantastic! They can't sell deer here even,points for sure

Richie
 
 
Duke They look great I have only had Elk once it was fantastic! They can't sell deer here even,points for sure

Richie
Thanks Richie, elk is one of my favorites, makes a great burger!
 
Oh how I would love to try some of those.
I will have to make these again, I only had a couple of them myself. There was no left-overs 
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