Get it? Like Shepards Pie but with Conservation Steward? Anyway, this is a great winter ground deer recipe that’s super simple to make and will fill you up with warm delicious wild game on this cold winter days after checking the trapline, ice fishing or even skiing if that’s your thing. Try this “Stewards Pie” recipe this weekend.

At the most basic, meatball recipes combine ground or chopped meats, functional ingredients and flavoring components. Bread crumbs, crackers, or a cooked grain are for body and prevent the toughness that happens when muscle fibers shrink as they cook. Eggs, sometimes bread soaked in milk, water or a broth bind all of the ingredients for simplifying the forming and cooking process. Those are all functional ingredient options that build the basic structure that can be simple or complex, depending on which regional result you want to create.  Adding specific flavoring components from seasonings, spices or aromatics is what really defines your dish and makes it embrace the style you have intended for it.  Onions, garlic, lemon grass, citrus and fresh herbs can transform any combination of your functional ingredients and send it to the far reaches of the earth.