Deer recipes

Venison chili built Texas-style with finely chopped wild game, beer, Mexican oregano, and a corn-flour finish. No beans, no tomato, just deep, gamey, hunter's table flavor that gets better overnight.

Schweinekotelett in Zwiebelsosse, German pork chops pan-fried and simmered in a beer and beef broth onion sauce. A hearty, traditional German dinner in 45 minutes.

Southern-style shrimp with bacon, okra, tomatoes, and beer simmered into a stew-thick sauce. Served over rice for an old-school Lowcountry-leaning dinner.

Danish-style marinated salmon cured in beer, sugar, salt, and black pepper for two weeks. Sliced thin and served with homemade asparagus mayonnaise.

Spice up your shrimp with this savory recipe your whole family will enjoy.

Your family will love this tender and juicy meat loaf that will have everyone licking their lips.

Flemish carbonades is a Belgian beef stew braised in beer with onions and garlic in the slow cooker. Fork-tender beef chuck in a thick, malty gravy.

Hot dogs dipped in beer batter, rolled in coconut, and deep-fried until golden and crunchy. A wild twist on the classic corn dog that brings tropical crunch to game day or backyard cookouts.

Beer-battered fried oysters served in their shells over spinach chiffonade with mango remoulade. A tropical Cajun-Creole appetizer that turns heads at any cocktail party.

Potato-cabbage casserole layers steamed potatoes, shredded cabbage, crisp bacon, and Swiss cheese under a thyme-spiked beer cream sauce. German-style comfort food in one dish.

Flounder fillets poached in a sweet-sour beer sauce with brown sugar, cloves, and peppercorns. A quick stovetop fish dinner with bold Northern European flavors.

Texas-style venison chili simmered in beer and beef stock with chili powder, cumin, coriander, and masa harina. No beans, no tomatoes, just bold meat-and-spice flavor that deepens overnight.

A quick and savory chili that tastes wonderful with a bread bowl or dinner rolls.

For starters, the water, beer and sugar take this recipe in the wrong direction. Substitute these ingredients with red wine. Also, forget the pork - this has not flavor in chili. Just add more beef. These small changes would have won them $40,000. I made those changes and had people chasing me for the recipe afterwards.

Canned salmon and hard-boiled eggs in a mushroom-beer cream sauce served in a molded rice ring. A retro dinner party centerpiece that's back in style.

Barbecued Texas cabrito: young goat slathered in mustard and a chili-lemon-pepper rub, then smoked low and slow over indirect heat and mopped with a beer-and-citrus sop. Authentic Tex-Mex smoked goat, tender and bold.