If I shouldn't use it, any recipes for ground venison welcome! Looking for new ideas.
I've posted this recipe before, but believe me, it's so good it's worth repeating:
1. Mix ground venison 50/50 with ground pork OR your choice of ground pork sausage - I use whichever one is on sale.
2. Mix in (again your choice) some seasonings - I like ground sage and/or store-bought Italian seasoning. But really - it's
your choice, so season to
your taste.
3. Form the ground venison/pork sausage into patties (about 2oz. each) and fry them up.
4. Dab the excess oil off them with paper towels, put them on a cookie sheet sprayed with just a little cooking oil, and put the cookie sheet full of fried patties in the freezer.
5. The next day, scrape the patties off the cookie sheet and transfer them to a gallon zip-lock bag. Put them back in the freezer - they won't sick together because they're frozen.
Now comes the GOOD part:
1. Take a pre-cooked, frozen patty out of the freezer and pop it in the microwave for about 22 seconds.
2. Put the now warm patty in a biscuit - I use my own sourdough/buttermilk biscuits, but "grand" sized store bought pop-up biscuits work well too.
3. Put a slice of pepper-jack cheese in the biscuit on top of the warm patty.
4. Put the whole thing back in the microwave for about 14 second - until the cheese just starts to droop.
A venison sausage with pepper jack biscuit goes very well with a small glass of V-8 juice, or some pineapple for breakfast. And it's heaven on Earth with some chips and an ice-cold, crisp lager for lunch. Enjoy!
Edited to add: When your grandsons are out to the house, don't let them know that there are venison sausage patties in the freezer, or there
won't be!