Category: Food

We’re all for simple cooking but this slow cooker recipe is just ridiculous.  We’re always on the search for easy recipes that taste like you spent all day in the kitchen. When we stumbled upon a variation of this slow cooker recipe involving Dr. Pepper and a beef roast or pulled pork roast, well, we

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Save your meat by making your own summer sausage. Sausage you don’t have to refrigerate? Wild game sausage you can travel with? Crazy, right?! This recipe for Summer Sausage is pretty handy when you don’t have a fridge or are hittin’ the road. My grandmother used to practice this sausage making recipe to conserve the

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I’m a meat hunter. I hunt for the sole purpose of eating the meat. I’ve never cared about the size of the horns or antlers. I’ve never handed a taxidermist any money. I derive much more pleasure from cooking, sharing, and eating the meat than staring at an inedible head on a wall. Don’t get

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This video is not for those with a weak stomach. Any skilled hunter knows how to properly field dress an animal, but sometimes we get a little too excited and can become prone to rookie mistakes. This video demonstrates exactly what you DON’T want to do when field dressing your kill (which in this case

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When it comes to finding the best venison recipe, expert archer Shawn Woods has some cooking advice! According to Shawn, cooking a whole deer neck is the best venison recipe he has ever tasted. If you just filled a deer tag and are in need of a good recipe, then listen up. Shawn has a

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Instead of just throwing your extra venison in the freezer, take some extra time and learn about canning venison. Once you have successfully harvested a deer and it has been processed and butchered, you are then faced with the decision of what to do with all your surplus wild game meat. Why not try our

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If you want your wild-game meat to last in the freezer, you need to vacuum seal it. As hunters, the ultimate measurement of success isn’t the score of an animal, but rather the amount of meat in your freezer. In fact, many hunters make it a point to only eat wild-game meat instead of shopping

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This is a recipe every deer hunter out there needs to learn. As hunters, gathering food is our ultimate objective, so getting the most meat out of each harvest is our first and foremost priority. However, many hunters only know how to prepare the main cuts of meet, and often leave perfectly edible protein. Fortunately

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We’ve gathered the 10 most popular featured products from CanCooker to ensure you’re getting the most out of your meals. By now you’re familiar with the famous CanCooker, but it’s important to know that the awesomeness doesn’t stop at the original convection oven-style steamer. There’s plenty to be excited about from CanCooker, which is why

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Want to make a memorable drink dispenser? Check out this pumpkin keg. Autumn is here and not only does that mean hunting, football, and cooler weather, it also means imbibing at holiday parties. And what better way to imbibe than straight out of a pumpkin? Here is how to carve a keg out of a

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You’re sure to make a ton of friends if you bring a bottle of this homemade blueberry pie moonshine to your next gathering. A while back, I published a homemade apple pie moonshine recipe and it spread through Facebook and Twitter like wildfire. If you had the opportunity to try it, you probably found that it

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If you’re interested in how to butcher your own deer harvests, you might like this illustrated deer meat guide. This illustration by artist Nadia van der Donk shows where the different cuts of meat come from on a deer. A hind quarter alone from a single deer can provide a lot of meat that can last for months

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