Side Dish Recipes
Goat Cheese “Pâté” with Venison & Bacon
Tasia Malakasis, of the famous Belle Chevre Fromagerie near Athens, Ala., showed me how to make this delicious pâté-like spread out of any cooked game meat, and it only takes a few minutes to whip up a batch.
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Venison Fireballs
These are like small, bite-sized meatballs, only hotter. The heat comes from the Sriracha, a Southeast Asian hot sauce often called “rooster sauce” because of the drawing of a rooster on the label of a popular brand. Look in the Asian section of your market for any product labeled Chili-Garlic, Sambal or Asian Hot Sauce.…
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Stuffed Mushrooms with Venison
This is a tasty way to use up ground venison, something many successful deer hunters seem to have in abundance. I usually end up with more stuffing than I have mushrooms to stuff, which makes for a great little snack while the mushrooms are in the oven. When it comes to ground antlered game, user…
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Venison Pepper Poppers
I’ve made a variation of this recipe with everything from leftover fish to boar sausage, and it never fails to impress. If your DNA has you predisposed to eating really hot stuff, try it with hotter peppers such as habaneros. The recipe specifies cooked ground venison, but it also works well with slow-cooked, pulled meat…
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Backstrap, Smoked Oyster, Green Onion and Bacon Snack
An alternative to the usual bacon-wrapped venison-on-a-toothpick recipe, this one combines smokey canned oysters, scallions and, of course, bacon. Also, try it with fresh, “unsmoked” medium-sized oysters, preferably from Apalachicola, Fla, — home of the world’s best oysters. Partially cooking the bacon before wrapping will keep the meat from overcooking while waiting for the bacon…
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Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo the time to celebrate the May 5th Victory! Eat some tacos, enchiladas and salsa. Put together a feast of your own with one or all of the five recipes below. Pheasant Street Tacos Slow Roasted Goose Tacos Rabbit Enchiladas Wild Pig Enchiladas Tomato Cucumber Salsa
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