I grew up eating almost nothing but deer and elk for red meat and my mom is a hell of a cook. But in the last 5 or 7 years I discovered how much better a deer steak is if it’s eaten medium rare instead of well done like mom always cooked it.

We still don’t eat anything except deer and elk for our red meat but we don’t cook it to well done and it’s not even in the same ballpark. My favorite is salt and pepper and into a hot skillet with a bit of melted lard. Sauté onions and mushrooms in real butter and worchestershire to go with it.

The wife made a Mississippi roast today in the crockpot that was excellent. Onion soup packet, ranch dressing packet, salt and pepper, and a jar of pepperoncini peppers with some water added for the soup packet. Very good and easy.