If you love eating fresh venison like we do, we have articles to walk you through the entire process, from proper field dressing, to butchering your deer, followed by some excellent venison recipes to help you get the most out of your harvest.
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Kick Off Your Super Bowl Party With These Venison Crowd-Pleasers
Feb 4, 2026Ben Westfall
My wife and I are always experimenting with new venison recipes, especially ones our toddlers and non-hunting friends and family will enjoy as well. Appetizers and small plates are a great way to introduce venison…
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How to Make Venison Sausage Like a Professional Chef
Jan 7, 2026Evan Barrett
Please allow me to be frank. Making sausage is fun, easy, and once you know the basics, the possibilities seem limitless. As a professional chef who became a deer hunter through NDA’s Field to Fork…
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This Venison Backstrap Recipe is Too Good Not to Share
Jan 8, 2018Alex Foster
A lot goes into preparing a wonderful meal, especially one that gives your taste buds that “wow” reaction. Isn’t it amazing that a single serving of “wow” can have 26 grams of protein but only…
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Venison Backstrap Fajitas
Aug 30, 2017Hank Forester
Use this recipe to make delicious venison backstrap fajitas and/or fajita salads. Ingredients: Venison Backstrap Peppers Onion Mushrooms Marinade (I prefer Allegro Hot & Spicy) Salad: Greens Cucumber Tomato Avocado Dressing (We used Cilantro Avocado…
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How Long is Venison Safe in Warm Weather?
Sep 9, 2015Lindsay Thomas Jr.
The doe kicked and ran out of the food plot like a hard-hit deer, hunched with its tail tucked, and I heard loud crashing sounds not far into the thicket. Confident I had venison on…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Roast and Wineberry Cobbler
Jan 26, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
“There are white oak acorns all over the woodlot up the hill,” the landowner said when I arrived for a scouting session a week before Virginia’s Urban Archery Antlerless Season began. “That’s where I want you…
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Hunt and Gather: Fix-Ahead Venison Cube Steak and Grimes Golden Applesauce
Jan 14, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
It was the weekend before the first Saturday of October, the traditional opening of Virginia’s archery season, and a friend and I had been searching my Potts Mountain land in Craig County for a stand site….
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Deer Tongue for Dinner
Dec 30, 2014Bruce Ingram
About a dozen years ago, I began to feel guilty about leaving gut piles behind in the woods after field dressing a whitetail. I was uncomfortable knowing my wife Elaine and I might be wasting…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Pastitsio and Crabapple Nut Bread
Jul 28, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
For a fortnight last October, the most exciting pattern I experienced involved a steady stream of deer coming to scarf up fruit under a pear tree. Setting up nearby, I ended up killing two fine does…
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Hunt and Gather: Baked Venison Burgers & Wild Blackberry Pie
Apr 25, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
While my wife Elaine and I were preparing this venison themed dinner, we thought of all the ways Quality Deer Management influenced how the entrée and dessert arrived on our table. I killed the doe, from…
