Venison Sausage Chili on Garlic Toast

I recently came home from spending a week visiting and hunting in Haida Gwaii, I had a great time, and was able to bring home some meat as well! I was given a few packs of sausage, which led me to chili!

For this chili, I started with cooking chopped onions and garlic in some canola oil on med heat. I then added chopped carrots and continued to cook for 5 mins. I then added the venison. I cut the sausage up in bite sized pieces, cook until mostly done.

I then added some tomato sauce, heinz ketchup, salt and pepper, frozen local corn, 1 double can of brown beans and a tbsp of maple syrup. I like a sweet chili, and the syrup adds just that!

The nice thing about chili is that it doesn't take a long time, I simmered it for 30 mins and served on a toasted french bread with home made garlic butter.

Very tasty, very hearty, the venison has a wonderful taste, no smell when cooking, and was incredibly lean!

Enjoy

Cory

Meatball Sliders w/ Butternut Squash Fries

Today I just could not decide what I wanted to make for supper, sometimes you just get tired of doing your same hand full of ground beef recipes. I took a look in the freezer, and stumbled across some home made buns that Shelby and my Mother in Law whipped up a bit ago. Solved. Meatballs....Yum.....Buns....Yum....Together.....Delicious!

We have attempted squash fries a few times before...the new trick I found out is to bake them on wire racks on a cookie sheet, rather then just on a cookie sheet. You get an even crisp and then a soft squash fry in the middle. Dead simple to do.

I peeled and sliced the butternut squash into "fry" shapes. Toss with some canola oil and a good season with Sea Salt. Lay on wire rack and bake for 40 mins @ 350 F. I failed to turn them once, and I don't think it would have made a difference. They were evenly crisp on all sides. Re season with Salt and serve!

For the sliders, I mixed lean ground beef with Salt and pepper, a bit of garlic powder, dash of soya sauce, and 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs. Mix and form into whatever sauce Meatball you want. I cooked on med high heat turning 3 or 4 times for 15 mins. You can add whatever you want for sauce, I used sweet basil marinara, and fixed my bun in jalapeno ranch dressing. Before I added the meatball to the bun, I dug out the bottom a bit so the Meat would sit in nice. Baked off until buns were brown,

Enjoy

Cory