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Ingredients: 2 ½ lbs ground venison or beef ½ lb hot breakfast sausage ½ package Lipton dry onion/mushroom soup mix 1 (7 oz) can mushrooms, drained and chopped 9 tbsp Backwoods Dried Jalapeño Flakes ½ large onion, finely chopped ½ package saltine crackers, crushed 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce Tomato juice (as needed) Optional: Backwoods Crushed Red Pepper (for extra heat) Directions: Rehydrate Jalapeños: In a small bowl, cover the dried jalape& …

Venison chili and fall were made for each other. Maybe you have a tradition of making a fresh pot of it as soon as temps drop, or you save for the night following your first sit in a deer stand. Regardless of when and how often you whip up a batch, this recipe will either improve on your own personal recipe, or replace it. Everyone loves their own chili and thinks it’s the best. And everyone is right, funnily enough. Still, if you want to try something new, you can make this recipe in its …

Rosemary & Garlic Sous Vide DuckWild duck tend to be thought of as only good for poppers, this is because most hunters don’t understand how to cook them. Wild ducks hold so many different flavors dependent on what type of duck and what they are eating, so many recipes don’t work for all species. This is not one of those recipes, this recipe will work beautifully with any and all wild ducks. The maintained cooking temperature that comes from Sous Vide will yield a perfectly and never over coo …

Ground Venison EnchiladasTake care to trim your venison grindProcessing your venison properly is an often overlooked factor when it comes to a delicious result. That starts with cutting the meat up to grind it. The best tasting grind is free of any silverskin or cartilage, so you want to be sure to trim that away. The cleaner your pieces of meat before you grind them, the higher quality your finished grind will be. Double passing the meat through a grinder (or better yet, using one that does it …

Invest in a meat slicer – it’s worth the tendernessFor this recipe, it’s imperative the meat is sliced thinly for two reasons. First, it helps the meat cook very quickly. But as a bonus, thinly shaving the venison also serves to offset any toughness. Toughness is generally measured by how much force we need to use to bite down on food – the thinner the piece of meat, the less work we need to do EVEN if that meat was tough to start with. So, thinly slicing meats is a GREAT way to offset toughness …

As you prepare for your summer grill-outs, take pride not only in your grilling setup but also in the food you prepare that makes it deserving of meat seasonings rich in flavor to feed your family and friends. Find all the flavor you need by turning to LEM.We feature Backwoods Select Gourmet Seasonings that are custom blended to deliver flavor to wild game and domestic meat. Local chef James Trent formulated these seasonings exclusively for LEM so that each blend offers a unique flavor profile. …

Meet everyone’s favorite messy sandwich in handheld form. The great thing about this recipe is that it can be as homemade or as quick as you want it to be. Don’t like making homemade pie crust? Use store-bought instead! Have a favorite canned sloppy joe sauce? Go for it! No matter what you choose, you’re sure to enjoy this twist on a comfort food classic!Great recipes start with great ingredients. I prefer to grind my wild game without any added fat and add in fat when I cook it. It makes grindi …

This Venison Italian Sausage will go great in every one of your Italian recipes!I love Italian food and I have a plethora of venison in my freezer so this recipe kind of wrote itself! Italian sausage kind of just goes with Italian food. In a lasagna, meatballs pizza, calzone, and every other dish you can think of. Throw this bad boy in it and go to town. I made this sausage loose with my LEM #8 Big Bite Grinder, but if you want to case it you definitely can. Also, I used an 80/20 venison to pork …

This Venison Meatball Sub is the first recipe I’m using my Venison Italian Sausage with, and it is delicious!One thing I find lacking in the wild game community is what to do with your sausage after it is made. My husband has a ton of wild game cookbooks from Steven Rinella, Hank Shaw, and Jesse Griffiths. They have some awesome stuff in there, but again I wish they talked more about how to transform your sausage. Obviously, you can just grill any sausage and go to town, but that can get boring. …

Steak fingers are like a fun finger food version of chicken fried steak. They’re easy to make and are a great use for those wild game steaks that you’re not really sure what to do with. You know, the leftover ones from butchering that are a weird shape, or you don’t know what cut they came from? Tenderize them and make them into steak fingers! The 2 in 1 Jerky Slicer and Tenderizer isn’t just for jerky and it makes tenderizing meat a breeze.Harissa is a deliciously smoky and spicy condiment that …