Place venison roast in lightly oiled slow cooker/crock pot. Add remaining ingredients. If there isn’t enough liquid to cover the roast, add water or additional broth. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
Remove and discard the bay leaves before serving.
Note: You can easily add sliced carrots and potatoes on top of the roast to cook along with the meat. If you do this – drizzle a little olive oil on them along with a light sprinkle of salt, pepper, and very light sprinkle of garlic powder.
About two months ago I went out to our freezer and realized that we were down to three (3) packages of venison. The opening of bow season on September 15 was highly anticipated as we really needed to get some meat in the freezer! Thankfully, Grant arrowed a doe that first week. We now have a start on building our supply of venison back up for the next year. (You can see that hunt here in the GrowingDeer.tv episode “Bow Hunting: Opening Day, Buck Down!”).
Before you start preparing the venison roast for the crock pot gather all the ingredients.
Grant said we are beginning to get too many deer on the property. In order to keep the deer healthy and in balance with the available food supply “Dr. Woods” has prescribed that we take a good many does to help balance out the population. That is welcome news for our family food budget for filling the freezer with a great quality meat! As the season progresses expect to see Grant and Adam taking more does and know that meat will feed the family!
As you might expect, eating venison at our house is an everyday meal. I cook venison as frequently (or more) than most people cook pork or beef. Our kids have grown up eating healthy venison instead of beef or other red meats. The crock pot (slow cooker) is my answer for a quick, easy meal for my family. Below is my favorite recipe for cooking venison roast. I hope you give it a try and enjoy it as much as we do! It is super easy yet tastes like a gourmet meal! If you start it before leaving for work in the morning, the smell (aroma if you’re fancy) of it cooking will knock your socks off when you get home in the late afternoon!
Place venison roast in lightly oiled slow cooker/crock pot. Add remaining ingredients. If there isn’t enough liquid to cover the roast, add water or additional broth. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
Remove and discard the bay leaves before serving.
Note: You can easily add sliced carrots and potatoes on top of the roast to cook along with the meat. If you do this – drizzle a little olive oil on them along with a light sprinkle of salt, pepper, and very light sprinkle of garlic powder.
The hunt for venison continues: This week it’s red oak acorns vs. Eagle Seeds Broadside mix. Looks like Grant has guessed right! Also, Adam’s got a tasty tip for taking the “game” out of your wild venison. Look out! It’s a bunch of college kids descending on The Proving Grounds. No worries, the Dr. is in!
Tip of the Week: Most Recent Information
Have a plan when you hunt, but always be willing to change.
Foods sources and deer patterns can change fast this time of year. MRI in the deer woods is almost always the best plan!
Baiting deer during season is legal in several states. This is not another promote or bash baiting story. This is a brief look at the efficiency of baiting from a scientist’s perspective. More than a decade ago, and then again very recently, scientist studied if baiting increases or decreases the chance of seeing and/or tagging a buck….CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WINCHESTER.COM
A cooler of venison is a great example of knowing your deer herd’s primary food source.
It’s been a great bow season so far! The GrowingDeer Team has been blessed enough to have harvested several deer already. The weather so far has been fair to poor to say the least. Now is the time to study the available food sources and our game plan. We need to decide if we will continue with our current strategy or adjust for changing food sources.
Most of our hunting so far has been on the edge of green food plots. Over the last week we’ve seen and heard many acorns falling on the ground. After a successful hunt last night, Grant studied the inside of a large does’ stomach to find it packed with acorns. Lesson learned – it’s time to start hunting acorns! If we continue with the approach of hunting food plots, we will soon be frustrated with little deer activity. If we start adjusting our hunting strategies and find the right oak tree we could be in for a very fun hunt!
Recently we were out on the property scouting and we found what looks like a very active oak tree. This specific tree, a Chinkapin oak, is in the white oak family and produces an acorn a little smaller than your typical white oak, but this nut is still a favorite to the deer. Once we took a few more minutes to look under the tree we knew deer were feeding on the fallen acorns. After studying the area we decided our best option was to use a Redneck Bale blind tucked away in the brush about 25 yards from the tree. We are excited to get back in the area and climb into the bale blind for the first hunt!
Get outside and scout those food sources! You may need to change your strategy to make sure you’re not missing out on any dynamite hunting locations.
