If there is one thing that life on the homestead revolves around, it is food. We are always trying to grow more of it and we love to cook it. As hard as we try, there are always foods we enjoy that we can’t grow on the homestead. Every once in a while we treat ourselves to one of these
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There are a many ways to prepare ground venison. Ground venison is very flexible and by adding a few spices you can really change its flavor profile. One of our favorite ground venison dishes is venison meatballs. Over the years, this recipe has evolved. In the beginning, we treated the meat as if it were beef, but it still tasted
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If you have read our blog before, you know that we love to start new traditions. Several years ago my sons and I started one of my favorite traditions. Every year during the ice fishing season we try to catch enough fish to feed us through all of the Fridays during Lent. We don’t eat meat on Fridays during lent,
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Often when things quiet down for a minute on the homestead, we take on a new challenge. This usually happens in late winter, when we have had enough of the snow. We just want to stay by the wood stove drinking coffee all day. A few years back we decided to try our hand at making our own sausage. Because
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The most popular dish at any hunting camp is always Venison Chili. In fact, I would bet that this is the way most people have tried venison for the first time. I suppose venison chili is like the ultimate first impression, get it right and you have a venison lover, get it wrong and a half bowl of chili goes
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