I just got married last April, and I have cooked elk, deer, and pheasant so far.
Pheasant in the crock pot is awesome. 2 cans of creamed soup (any kind) don't add milk, potatoes (quartered) and carrots(cut same as for a roast of meatloaf). turn on, when the potatoes are done, bird should be as well. They are mostly just a pound smaller then your average chicken.
As for deer and elk. Same as beef, any recipe, just cook them for less time as they have little or no fat in them. I prefer this meat over beef now. Moose is also awesome!
Can I laugh with you.
Married less than a year, I should hope that everything you eat, tastes good to you.
Congratulations, be happy, as I am willing to bet both of you have earned it.
And yes, LOL, I do recall that first year, one of Bills customers brought him a leg off a deer, frozen, so I asked a neighbor how to cook it, invited his family to the feast, and it was a nighmare.
Dale had told me to just put the frozen leg in the oven, extra garlic and bacon strips and cook it all day.
He did not tell me that if it had not been cleaned correctly and you could still see hair on it, not to cook it.
China and crystal, rice, sauces, my finest for his brother and sister............and me sick as a dog smelling that stinking thing in the oven.
They did try to eat it and as Bill’s brother went out the front door, he tried to be nice, it was clear that he did not know what half the the dishes were, as several neighbors had suggestions, and I followed all of them........
As Delbert left, he turned and thanked me for inviting him, then said “but I never did find the potatoes”......
How was I to know that no meal was a meal without potatoes on the table.?
Many a pork recipe works as well.
We put the "remains" of a 140lb buck in the freezer in January. Even our 9 year old loves venison (thank goodness)
We haven't perfected it yet, so it took my husband and I 2 days to get it all cut up and in the freezer. That's better than the 6 days it took us to do the first one we got :)