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Gents,

Since I’m laid up as a gimp from my recent knee surgery for the next few weeks I figured I’d occupy my down time and try my hand at some real tasty cooking as opposed to just cooking meat and being happy with that. I broke out my copy of the Colorado DOW Wild Game Cookbook and whipped up a batch of their “Hunter’s Favorite Chili”. Here are the ingredients and directions for making it.

Ingredients:
3 pounds big-game burger.
3 medium onions, chopped
3 medium green peppers
½ cup chopped celery
2 tbls bacon grease or vegetable oil
1 can (28 oz) whole tomatoes, undrained
2 tbls dried parsley flakes
2 tbls chili powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
½ tsp garlic powder
2 cans (15.5 oz) kidney beans, undrained
1 can (16 oz) pinto beans, undrained

Directions:
In Dutch oven, brown meat over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and set aside. In large skillet, cook and stir onions, green peppers and celery in bacon grease over medium heat until tender. Add vegetable mix and all remaining ingredients except beans to meat in Dutch oven. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat; cover. Simmer 1 hour to blend flavors. Stir in beans. Cook uncovered, 30 minutes longer. Serves 8 to 10.

For my batch of chili I used elk burger, bacon grease and instead of 1 28 oz can of whole tomatoes, I used 4 x 14.5 cans of diced tomatoes because that's what I had on hand. I also tried to follow the Paleo Solution Diet on this and left out the kidney and pinto beans. I like to cook with onions but only used 2 instead of 3 because it looked like way too much onion for my liking. I also added a bit more chili and garlic powders since I like my chili just a bit more zesty. It’s not too shabby, if I may say so myself. I didn’t take any pictures because, well…..it’s just a pot of chili. I must admit though, I do prefer cooking with an actual recipe over my usual throwing a bunch of stuff together until it’s palatable.

The book also has a recipe for Venison Stroganoff, Venison Stew, Spicy Elk Kabobs, and Venison steak Diane, which I’ll attempt in the next couple weeks since I'm not going to be going anywhere anytime soon during my recovery.