Venison..

So my mister bagged his first deer a couple weeks back. Wootage! I think I totally insulted him the first night he cooked some here because he was enjoying steaks, and I just wasn't in the mood, so I passed on the bites he tried to share. Well, that and I'd also cooked these awesome apple simmered BBQ pork ribs. (Love me some BBQ!) They (steaks) were also a bit rarer than my personal tastes were down for.

It's gotten frigid out as of late, so decided to make something nice and warm for our bellies. Nothing says fall/winter like stew, so I went with it.

• venison about a pound or so of stew meat
• mierepoix (1c each: carrots, onion, celery)
• potatoes (your choice on variety and peel... I felt like taking it off)

-all of the above into whatever size you feel is appropriate. I've got P so went with a parmentier (1/2 inch dice)

• thyme 1/4 tsp
• marjoram 1/4 tsp
• garlic 2 table spoons or 3 cloves
• adobe couple dashes
• crushed pepper 10 twists of a mill
• bottle of red wine
  
  
  

Crank your crock pot up to high. Brown the venison in couple table spoons of butter, olive oil, and tablespoon of garlic in a sauté pan. (Don't worry bout the greasiness.. It'll work itself out, plus venison is wicked lean.) Pour into heated crock pot. Add mirepoix, potatoes, and spices. Take about 3/4c red wine to deglaze your sauté pa and pour into your pot. Finish covering the mixture with either stock or water (I'd boiled down the scraps I cleaned from the meat and had a venison one.) Simmer for a good 5+ hours and you'll have savory tastyness like we did.

Which I served along with cheddar garlic biscuits.

These were a last minute decision so I bust out the Bisquick. It's been pointed out to me they don't appear to have any cheesyness to them. That's because I used Cabot cheddar cheese, which being a Vermont cheese, means there is no coloring added, so it's the actual white color cheddar has. Many companies add annatto, an extract which comes from the achiote tree, to gain that orange color most people relate to cheddar cheese.