I ate a lot of venison when I was a kid. Any recipe that could be made with beef, my mother made with deer meat — hamburgers, spaghetti sauce, pot roast, and more. However, she didn’t ever get too ...

When it comes to hunters’s favorite cut of venison, backstraps get a lot of the attention—and rightly so; they are delicious. But it’s hard to beat a venison tenderloin. For many hunters, the ...

It could already be made up into sausage, ground up like beef, or maybe you’ve got some deer steaks just waiting to grill. My personal favorite way to eat it is as a venison burger on a donut bun. I ...

Note: This story was originally published in 2014. There's just something about riding into camp following an afternoon hunt, and being greeted with the smell of venison cooking — lifting the lid of ...

Whether you prefer a grill, smoker, or Crockpot, if you want to learn how to cook venison, internalize this message: Venison is not beef. Everything you need to know about how to cook venison — ...

When I was growing up, I remember my mother not being happy in early December over the fact that my father was a good shot and had just harvested a deer. That meant she would have to come up with a ...

Editor's note: Originally published in November 2022. Updated November 2025. With experience in fine dining kitchens as well as kitchens like the family-owned Greenfield Restaurant in Lancaster, the ...

When I was growing up, venison was a regular staple on the family dinner table. My father filled the freezer every deer season, and then my mother made her way through it the rest of the year, feeding ...

It appears taco dishes filled with savory wild game and fresh fish are hard to beat at the Alabama Wildlife Federation Wild Game Cook-Offs, and the recent Gulf Coast competition in Spanish Fort was no ...

Was this your year to bring home that buck or doe? Did a successful friend or family member give you a gift of fresh venison? Looking for a recipe or two to try? The following are a few my family ...