I have become a huge fan of shanks and will never spend the time to put one in the grinder again.
https://honest-food.net/braised-venison-shanks-recipe-garlic/This is my favorite, plenty of garlic and falling off the bone.
Other than that, Oklahoma style burgers are a huge hit with the kids.
- Roll ground vennison into balls, a touch bigger than a golfball, salt, pepper, set aside.
- take 1 sweet onion slice as thin as possible, or run through the mandolin on the finest setting
- Get a skillet or griddle as hot as possible, add a thin coating of high temp oil.
- Place one ball at a time on the skillet, add a generous topping of onions, and smash with a spatula to +/- 3/8" thick
- Once they have sizzled for a bit and developed a good crust flip to onion side down.
- on each patty stack - a slice of cheese, top bun, then bottom bun
- allow to steam for 2-3 min untill the cheese melts and buns are warm
- scoop up a stack, put the bottom bun on the bottom and serve.