JJ was taking an order from a phone-in customer for a camouflauge/orange HotHeadz (for her hubby to wear deer hunting- it was his first time) and during the conversation the customer revealed she had never eaten venison, let alone cooked it. We thought with all the camouflauge/orange HotHeadz we have been selling, there might be others looking for easy and tasty venison recipes.
From JJ's personal recipe file:
Venison Steak
Vegetable Marinade:
(Slice
raw vegetables in rings)
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1 rib celery
Add:
3 tablespoons olive oil
Juice of ½ fresh lemon
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
Crush ingredients with a potato
masher.
Rinse meat, place in covered
container and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon allspice.Spread marinade over the top of the meat,
cover container and marinate for 1-2 days in the refrigerator.
Remove meat from marinate,
scrape all marinade off the meat.You
may want to pound with a meat hammer (I found the meat tender without doing
this.)
Flour meat on both sides and
place in a skillet with hot oil and brown.Turn and brown the second side.Add about 1/3 stick butter and cover skillet for a few minutes.Butter will melt and combine with the oil and
begin to get thick from the flour on the meat.Add a few tablespoons water and bring to a boil.Remove meat and scrape skillet and stir until
sauce forms.(There will not be a lot of
it as if you make gravy, but enough to pour a little over the top of the steaks
when they are served.)
I served it with mashed
potatoes, cranberry relish made with nuts and oranges and a spoonful of
horseradish for the meat.Yummy!
DELICIOUS RECIPES: fun to read, easy to prepare,
yummy to eat and a pleasure to share . . .
We love to exchange favorite recipes with friends.
We are sharing a few of our family favorites with you and hope you enjoy them. Fritzie’s creativity is expressed in her cooking tasty dishes quickly.
Everyone loves her Secret Ingredient Roast. Try it and let us know if you like it, too.
JJ likes recipes she can take to ‘covered dish’ suppers as they were called in the Adirondack area. She was born and raised in Illinois and ‘pot lucks’ were the name given to suppers where everyone brings a dish to share. Whatever you call them, these sharing suppers are still favorites and she has some favorite recipes to share with you. Be sure to try the Quick as a Wink Cookies.
Nanna, now in heaven, was JJ's aunt who loved to bake cookies. She baked dozens and dozens to share with friends and family and, at Christmas, took dozens of plates of cookies as gifts to shut-ins, friends at church and for entertaining at home. JJ and Fritzie have many treasured gifts from Nanna. Fritzie has a gorgeous antique doll and many beautiful dishes and figurines. JJ has a complete 12 place setting set of paneled thistle pressed glass dishes, cups and glasses. She also has more than 20 serving dishes in the same pattern. However precious all the things we have from Nanna, none is more precious than her very large metal recipe box. For an old fashioned, no-nonsense cookie, bake up a batch of Nanna's Billy Goat Cookies.
It is said that the best things in life are free. We hope you enjoy these free recipes from our recipe boxes. JJ and Fritzie
