I am not a cook. I don't mind cooking but I don't really enjoy it and I don't do it very often. My signature dishes are macaroni and cheese with hot dogs, Ramen noodles, and spam and rice. It takes planning and time to make meals and I don't always have a lot of time, well I didn't when I was in school. So now that I'm done I've made it my goal to cook more. At this point, most anything I cook will be new to me, since my recipe history isn't very long. A new recipe a month isn't very ambitious, so maybe I should up that to a new one every 2 weeks (I don't want to be overwhelmed!).
Thankfully, I'm married to someone who is a wonderful cook. He's good at it and likes to do it. Sometimes though, he cooks at home like he's cooking at the firehouse...greasy and big portions. I'm hoping the recipes I contribute will balance out what we eat and add some variety.
My husband is a HUGE deer hunter and a lot of our meat comes from the deer he's killed. We have 30 lbs of ground deer meat in our deep freezer so I wanted to find a recipe that could use some of it. For the most part, I interchange ground beef and deer so I thought of making shepherd's pie and substituting with deer. I wanted to make it in the crockpot so that I could start it in the morning and not have to worry about it again. There are lots of recipes online but I found mine in the Crock Pot Slow Cooker Bible. It consisted of 2 lbs of deer meet, frozen mixed veggies, diced tomatoes, oregano, quick cooking tapioca, black pepper, salt, and mashed potatoes. Super easy and it turned out delicious. Below is a picture of everything before I added the mashed potatoes. I meant to take a picture after but we started eating right away and then Justin cleaned everything up before I got a chance to take an "after" picture (but I'm not complaining!).
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