Kingly Foods

First of all I want to thank my boss one more time for giving me the venison! It was super kind and as tender as it could be. Thank you!

Last night was the first time in a long time I actually read a recipe instead of just inventing one as I went on. I have never cooked deer by myself before, I have eaten it countless amount of times though. It cooked pretty much just like any other meat but it tastes oh so much better.

What you need:
In the top of the image is the deer meat.
From the left to the right we have: celery, a carrot, rosemary, thyme, an onion, some juniper berries, and white peppercorns (hard to see).

Also what you can’t really see in the image is a bottle of red wine.

I was a bit hasty reading the recipe, apparently this was for a marinade, haha. But I figured you could do it anyway and after  tasting the result I tell you: YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT MARINATING IT!

You don’t have to add the ingredients in any specific order as long as they are mixed all together in the end. I just put the meat into the pan as in the image, poured on about a cup of wine and mixed it with the herbs. Crushed the juniper berries (with the side of the knife) and added the white peppercorn whole. Sliced up both the carrot and the three celery stalks. Then added a whole yellow onion on top.

All the herbs should measure up to about a table spoon as well as the juniper berries and white peppercorn.

Now put this in the middle of the oven at 400F for about an hour. And halfway through or earlier try to stir and “flip” things around so the top layer don’t get burnt. In hindsight I think I would’ve used a bigger pan. Which probably also would have compelled me to make even more food :)

Here is the final result. Served it with mashed potatoes (which I actually had to order for delivery!!)

And finally I want to say that before I started making this I wanted it to smell and taste like forest. I think I succeeded. Next time I would like to add more herbs and spices though. This was perfect for this kind of weather as well, cloudy and rainy.

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