I like ground meats, but I prefer food made from the whole meat. This smoked elk pastrami is an excellent way to use the tough meat from the shoulder and create food you can take to work or on your next hunt on a sandwich.
My kids love heart, and they talk about eating it all year. It’s too bad elk (or deer, or bears) only have one. Fried elk heart is a great way to enjoy it.
Venison sausage, fluffy eggs, and toasty bread: It’s a match made in heaven. My kids eat this up, and my wife loves it, too.
When you bring home a bunch of fish, canning smoked trout is a great storage option.
I don’t love cooked mushrooms. Having said that, I love cooked morels. I’ll show you how I drizzle morel mushrooms over bear backstraps. Morels make you look like a great cook.
Scotch eggs are like a complete breakfast in a compact bundle. They are pub food in Britain, but I could eat them for any meal — serve them mustard, ranch sauce, or maybe maple syrup at breakfast. The best part is that they are simple to make and they put your wild game sausage to good use.
The GunsAmerica team had a dish like this at SHOT: It was delicious. The soup broth is full of flavor from several spices, and the braised meat is tender and tasty. We had it with beef, which was mostly fat, and the whole time I was dreaming of eating it with bear meat.
I know what you’re thinking: “Badger Potstickers?!” But don’t worry, they’re easy to make. The hard part is hunting the badger.
Kids love to do hobo dinners because they make their own and they eat it out of the foil it cooked it. It feels really rustic. And when they caught their own meat, that’s even better!
This sauce is flavorful and spicy and a little sweet. Use it on any red meat to finish the flavor. I used it here on backstops from last year’s cow elk. It would also be excellent on a roast.
If you’ve eaten Butter Chicken at an Indian restaurant, then this dish will be familiar. Butter Bear is rich and creamy, and simmering any meat in this sauce for a while will make it tender and delicious.
There’s no denying: An excellent breakfast sandwich will take you a long way up a mountain before you stop for lunch or stop to process the critter you just killed. McDonald’s has a good handle on the system, but you can easily do better with quality meat, egg, and cheese.
I continually hear from many people that insist that wild boar is inedible. I shouldn’t be surprised, though: I’ve been told that all the other “boars” are inedible, too.
Bone broth is very simple to make and you can use it in all kinds of recipes that call for stock or broth.