Venison Every Day: The No-Fuss Guide to Cooking Game at Home

Doran, The Cookful blogger and food photographer, serves up recipes that use deer meat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in her enticing and informative debut, supplying easy and appetizing solutions for hunters who have gathered a storehouse of venison. Her favored approach is to add an acid, such as vinegar or a citrus juice, to a recipe in order to balance the gamey flavor of the meat. Examples include classic shepherd’s pie with a touch of apple cider vinegar, and a bold carpaccio, its thin slices of raw meat drizzled with a vinaigrette containing lemon juice and red wine vinegar. Pork provides a fatty boost when blended with venison in dishes like Swedish meatballs or a venison chorizo. A chapter of globally inspired entrées includes kebabs with tahini-yogurt sauce, or appetizers such as Asian lettuce wraps and Mediterranean nachos (with pita chips, yogurt, tomatoes, and feta). For breakfast, there is a kale, mushroom, and venison frittata and blueberry sage breakfast sausage. Doran’s fine photos bring each entry to colorful life, be it the blueberry balsamic reduction atop an invitingly rare roasted whole tenderloin with peppercorns or a pair of barbacoa meat tacos. Cooks with a taste for the wild will find plenty to up their game. (Sept.)