a few of my other favorite meals
Chicken fry some venison cube steak in butter. then fry some sliced potatoes and onion (lots of onion) until the potatoes are browned and the onions caramelized, put the fried potatoes on your plate lay a big piece of chicken fried steak right on top and the drench the whole thing with sausage gravy! Meal fit for a king! Cool think is I get lots of cheap venison and all the potatoes we can eat from the farm we shoot deer at for free so it costs pennys to make.
Another cheap supper for us that I just love is venison cheese steaks. Take a semi frozen chunk of venison (it doesn't have to be a choice cut like a back strap) take a razor knife or a filet knife and slice it as thin as you can (why you can use lower quality cuts) Fry it in butter with onions and mushrooms until the venison gets a tiny bit of crust and the onions are soft and caramelized (and peppers if you like but to me they overpower the taste of the venison) take a loaf of French bread and cut it like a sub bun. Put a generous amount of your favorite cheese on it (I like half the bread with mozzarella and half with cheddar and nuke it till the cheese is melted and ladle on the meat. Best steak sub you will ever eat. the venison adds much more flavor then if you used beef. takes about 15 minutes to make.
Want more? Another sub variation is take some of your favorite fresh sausage and form it into rectangles that will fill a sliced open French bread. Fry with butter until done and in another pan fry some onion and mushroom (and again peppers if you like) take your bread split down the middle and generously ladle on some mozzarella cheese and some pizza sause and nuke till its melted. Put the meat onion and mushroom on top and enjoy. I use a type of sausage that is native to this area called cudighi. Its an Italian sausage with a bit more flavor and kick to it. But even your breakfast sausage will work well.
Another favorite of mine is chicken frying cube steak again. after there fried to almost done take them out of the pan and put them on a baking dish and add mozzarella cheese and put them on a cookie sheet and broil till the cheese is browned. make some spaghetti noodles and in another pan fry some onion and a good amount of thin sliced garlic and when there done mix it in with the noodles. It adds flavor and keeps it from being dry. Then ladle your favorite spaghetti sauce over it and enjoy. As you can see I use a lot of cube steak. there great in dishes like this and there even great on the grill if you don't get carried away and over cook them. About all my steak other then back straps is put through the cuber attachment on my grinder.
Another little hint for the summer sausage makers here. I take my venison summer sausage once in a while and slice it about a 1/2 inch thick and fry it in butter with a couple eggs. It almost tastes like smoked ham but with a lot more flavor. Its also better then ham on a pizza.
