Venison/Game Recipes

[framing fowl]

I've searched and maybe missed it but it's that time of year and thought it might be helpful to have a thread dedicated to game. I've seen a few recipes scattered in journals and here and there but would love to have more ideas. If this should be in hunting/fishing, please move it.

We were blessed last night by a neighbor who loves to hunt, but doesn't eat venison. I'd love some good jerky recipes!

 

[miss_thenorth]

Well, when we do deer, we either make roasts or ground meat. so unfortunaltely I am not very creative when cooking it. roasts go into the slow cooker with some herbs and spices on top, a little water on the bottom, and a bay leaf. The only variation is sometimes it goes in frozen, sometimes it goes in thawed.

for the ground meat, we dont grind any pork in with it, so I just brown it with some bacon fat, and use in place of anyground beef recipe I want to make. is tacos, meatloaf, spaghetti, etc.

I too am looking for a jerky recipe, but m having difficulty finding one that does not contain sulphites/sulphates. If I find on, I'll post it. OTOH, ifyou are near a Bass Pro, or similar hunting shop, they sell seasoning packs to make your own jerky. Me, being stubborn, wanted to make one completely from scratch, so I'm stil looking.

Good luck and enjoy your venison!

 

[chrissum]

Here are a few sites I know of, just got a nice 9 pt this morning before the rain started:

http://archeryworld.com/bows/recipes/index.nmpl

http://www.justgamerecipes.com/index.html

http://www.best-venison.com/venison-recipes.html

http://www.venisonrecipes.net/

 

[sufficientforme]

http://www.recipezaar.com/Venison-Steak-Marinade-119158
http://www.recipezaar.com/Prize-Winning-Marinade-for-Beef-67491
http://www.recipezaar.com/Venison-or-Beef-steak-marinade-29635
http://www.recipezaar.com/Venison-Pot-Roast-40208
http://www.recipezaar.com/Deer-Venison-Jerky-15725


These are a few online that I have used, I tend to like the marinades since some family members are not too fond of elk and deer and they do a great job with the flavor.

 

[lorihadams]

I posted my mom's barbeque recipe on here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. I use deer in place of any recipe that calls for beef.

I need recipes for goose. Anyone? I have breast meat in the freezer.

Found it....here's a thread I tried to start earlier. http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1002 There's a few recipes in there, including the barbeque recipe.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I posted my mom's barbeque recipe on here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. I use deer in place of any recipe that calls for beef.

I need recipes for goose. Anyone? I have breast meat in the freezer.

Found it....here's a thread I tried to start earlier. http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1002 There's a few recipes in there, including the barbeque recipe.

It's been a looong time since I cooked goose, I usually stuffed it in the crock pot and did it like a roast. Sorry, I'm not very creative when cooking wild game. When I roast a whole goose, I used a "LOOK" cooking bag to keep in the juices and tenderize the meat.

 

[ScottSD]

One thing that I've found is letting a deer roast soak in milk for a few days really takes the wild taste out.

Have any of you canned venison and if you have, do you do it plain or add seasoning?

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Icy salt water helps too, but I kinda like the "wild" flavor that puts so many people off. I just replace most beef dishes with deer, like lori.
I canned meat shreds and broth from a rack of deer ribs from the freezer. I don't care what anybody says, there is a lot of meat on deer ribs.
I brought them to a boil with lightly salted filtered water & apple cider vinegar (ACV) in my largest soup pot (5 gallon or so) and skimmed the foam off. Then I simmered it overnight.
The next day I pulled all the meat off the bones, & strained most of the broth from the shreds. I put the shreds into another pot & put just enough of the broth into it to barely cover the shreds. I brought them back to a boil, put the hot shreds in hot jars, leaving 1-1/2" headspace. Then I covered with broth to within 1" of the top & put in the pressue canner. The rest is just like canning any other meat. Vent, put on weight & pressurize. Process according to your altitude's weight & time. 90 minutes at 10lbs for me.
The broth was just jarred up with 1" headspace & processed for 20 minutes at 10lbs.

I got 5 pints of meat/broth & 5 of just broth.
After much reading I decided to season as we use it. That way you don't end up with taco meat when you really want italian flavored. Plus there are several herbs & spices that turn bitter when cooked for long periods of time.

 

[ORChick]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would you want to "tame" the flavor of your "wild" meat? OK, I'm not a hunter, so I don't get to eat venison often, but when I do have the chance to make a roast, for example, I head for my German cookbooks (Germans love game). The last one I made I added a few juniper berries, and a bit of red wine to the braising liquid, and made up a gravy by adding some dried wild mushrooms. In fact, in one of the German books I seem to remember a recipe for a beef roast cooked in a manner to imitate venison (not the other way 'round). I had the same question for the lamb farmers around here - they raise good lamb, and send it off to market in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. But at the annual "lamb show" at the fairgrounds they have a BBQ lamb dinner, and it is impossible to say, from taste, alone, that it is lamb one is eating. But I guess people around here only raise the animals, but don't like the flavor.

 

[lorihadams]

I don't mind the gamey taste. We don't can anything but when we ground our meat we didn't use any seasonings so that we could use it for just about anything. I don't want my hamburgers tasting like spaghetti, ya know?

We made jerky out of goose meat before and it was really good. Other than that, I've never done much with goose. It has gotten to the point now with my hubby's guide service that he doesn't even bring any birds home with him. He doesn't even take his gun most of the time cause he is usually calling and making sure everyone is happy.

I've never had lamb either, or goat. I would love to try it though.