Homemade venison snags
Sometimes deer hunters are lucky, with the result being an embarrassment of venison descending upon our households. The increasing numbers of deer all over the country are contributing to this ‘good-quality problem’. After bagging a young sambar stag in alpine Victoria, hot on the heels of despatching five young fallow in Tasmania, I had the freezer choc-a-bloc. What to do?
Having claimed to my wife Di for years that the main justification for my hunting was to provide food for the family, I badly needed to see the freezer space emptying as quickly as it had been filled. From a practical as well as from a political standpoint, I had to find more avenues for using-up my stock of frozen venison.
Venison might be lean and tasty, but the recipes for its use are limited in comparison with
