Pretty much all of the recipes can be modified for store bought protein sources. You may have stumbled upon this blog and you don’t hunt, and that’s okay, feel free to make substitutions for store bought protein sources by using the following general guide:
Ground Beef: Any recipe with ground meat can be used with any red meat variety including: deer, elk, barbary sheep, etc. Wild game ground meat is going to be a leaner protein source.
Chicken: Most recipes with poultry are interchangeable with pheasant, grouse, prairie chickens, etc.
Pork: Any recipe that lists wild hogs or javi?
Game meats that don’t have close store substitutes, and have fairly unique flavor profiles:
My husband and I are New Mexico State University Alumni (it’s where we met), Go Aggies! One of the things we miss most about not living in Las Cruces anymore, is the food. Our favorite place to get enchiladas was (and still is) Andeles. We missed their enchiladas so much
If you ask me, homemade mashed potatoes should be in everyone’s kitchen arsenal. Really, what could be better? This is my dad’s recipe, and a simple and quick favorite of mine. My husband has to have them with chicken fried anything. Enjoy! These make a great pair with Chicken Fried
Pheasant hunts have such a special place in my heart. I’ve really only been on one big pheasant hunt, but it was a blast. I love how regal and different each bird is, and don’t even get me started on how much I freaking love their feathers. They were the
I don’t know why but I always think about IKEA when anyone mentions Swedish Meatballs. Maybe because for a furniture store, they have a pretty good cafeteria. I really like this recipe because it doesn’t mask the game flavor. I think I a lot of people try to hide gamey
Soups and stews just really make me happy. I have to make huge batches and freeze them, because my husband really hates soup when it’s over 40 degrees outside. Which is a whole lot of the time where we live. I really only have 2 months to make soup where
Seafood Pallela (Pie-aye-yah), more complicated to say than it is to make. This dish is a family style dinner favorite, and one of the best ways to use shrimp. If you live on the coast, I’m jealous of your ability to get fresh seafood. One of the only things I
Beef Wellington has always been one of those recipes that wow dinner guests for me. If it’s cooked right, it’s in my top five all time favorite foods. So I started messing with a game Wellington recipe, and let me tell you, this one doesn’t disappoint. For me it’s the
Would I even be from New Mexico if I didn’t publish a stuffed sopapilla recipe? These can be a lot of work, but oh are they worth it! These are cheater scratch made sopapillas, using a flour tortilla mix and doctoring it a bit. Credit to my mother in law
German cherry pancakes, another solid favorite from my dad’s kitchen arsenal. I’m honestly not even sure if these are actually of German origin, but that’s what we’ve always called them. This recipe is a solid camp recipe, it uses simple ingredients, and cooks great in a cast iron over the
