Venison shanks are delicious to eat, but tough to cut, unless you know a trick or two.

Deer Hunting = Locally grown, free range, hormone and antibiotic free meat.
Some cuts of venison are just tough. That doesn’t mean you have to relegate them to the grinder. Tame them with these slow cooked recipes. A few hours in the oven, or a day in the crockpot will tenderize any cut of meat!
Venison shanks are delicious to eat, but tough to cut, unless you know a trick or two.
Venison Ribs can be tasty! You just have to take a few precautions to get them right.
Rotisserie cooking keeps the juices in, and ensures an evenness to cooking of your roast.
Sous vide is super slow cooking with a bag in water. It does wonders to a tough venison roast.
Don’t think of any part of your deer as waste. If you are tossing your bones out, you are missing out.
So you have corned the beast (see article here). Now we need to cook it to turn it into a corned venison meal. Because venison is so lean, you have to be careful at this step. If you do a standard boil, and you boil it a bit too long, you’ll end up with some … Continue reading “Beer Braised Corned Venison Recipe”
A DIY “hotpocket” you can make with venison.
Some people may think I’m crazy. Heck, some people KNOW I’m crazy. But venison shanks are one of my favorite cuts of meat from my deer. There are basically three ways to process them: Get as much meat off of them as you can and put it in the grinder. Slow cook them whole. Slow … Continue reading “Venison Shank Stew with Parmesan Dumplings”
Let’s start out with what the shanks are. The shanks are the forelegs. There’s a lot of bone, a lot of tendons, and not a lot of meat. If you process your own deer, as you break down the quarters, you get to the shank and think: “ugh, there is NO WAY I can get any … Continue reading “Venison Shank Osso Buco”
Who doesn’t like tacos? The only reasonable excuse someone could give for not liking them is that they are messy. Well, that’s why napkins were invented. As to flavors, one of the great things about tacos is there are a million ways to make them, so it’s easy to tailor them to your preferences. And … Continue reading “Easy Venison Crockpot Tacos”
If you hunt, I’m willing to bet you make chili too. And I know, I know, you already make the BEST chili. Wait, why are you searching online for “venison chili recipes” then? One of the reasons I like making chili is that it’s like a science experiment that can’t go wrong. Well, assuming you … Continue reading “Venison Chili – and don’t forget the Cornbread!”