The hunting thread got me thinking about cooking up some venison. Thought I would start up a thread where we could all post up favorite venison recipes or some good side item recipes for the upcoming fall/winter seasons.

Mine would have to be:

- Venison cut into cubes, 2 cans cream of mushroom soup, carrots, potatoes, onions
- Backstraps cut crossways into medallions, wrapped in bacon and soak in Italian dressing. Throw on grill.
- Venison steak cut into strips, breaded in Hause Autry mix and pan fried in olive oil
- Ground venison mixed 80:20 with beef fat. Form into burger patties and stuffed with cheese blocks and jalepeno peppers. Grill and serve on high quality burger buns.

10/18/2009 7:20:49 PM

i bet that dark venison would make one sweet freaking chili. provided the meat was tenderloin meat

most of it is just too gamey for my taste

10/18/2009 7:22:49 PM

Chili.

10/18/2009 7:23:57 PM

We eat venison a lot in chili, and we also marinate tenderloin, steak, etc... in various things including Italian dressing, Pepsi, or steak marinades and then fry it after dipping it in milk and breading it. Venison must be mixed with a little pork fat to make good sausage, but that is good also. You can basically use ground venison as you would ground beef. Hash is also good, which is venison that is cooked until very soft and chopped finely. It is then mixed with chopped onion and something similar to barbecue sauce. Everyone makes it a little differently, but every version I have ever tried was very good. The key to venison having good flavor is how it is handled after it is dressed. It is best to hang it in a walk in cooler for about a week, but you can also quarter the deer and lay it on the shelves in a refrigerator and age the meat that way. Some people even keep it in a cooler of melting ice with the drain open for a few days. Wrapping it tightly and freezing it immediately after butchering will give it a "gamey" taste. Acidic marinades also help.

[Edited on October 18, 2009 at 8:06 PM. Reason : ...]

10/18/2009 8:03:58 PM