Southern sweet cornbread. This is my base recipe with a few options listed.

Southern Cornbread.
1 cup regular grind cornmeal.
1 cup all-purpose flour.
1 tbsp baking powder.
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup sugar.
1/4 cup bacon (cooked, chopped), 1/2 cup cheese, a jalapeno (sliced, deseeded), 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1/3 cup honey/maple syrup/corn syrup, or what ever else you may want. optional.
1 large egg.
1 1/4 cup milk, or butter milk.
1/3 cup liquid fat (oil, lard, butter etc).

• Preheat oven to 425f.
• grease a 10 inch cast-iron skillet or in 8 inch. square baking pan with the fat.
• Place pan in oven.
• place dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• whisk together
• add any optional items
• fold in the in the eggs and milk using as few. strokes as possible
• remove skillet or pan from oven.
• pour the batter in.
• give it a little shake to level it out,
• bake 30-35 minutes
• do the toothpick test to see if its done or needs more time.
• let it cool down before trying to remove it from the pan.

It’s rather improvised. The basics were dicing some cube steak venison, browning it in bacon fat, adding carrots, onion and bell pepper. Once they were all cooked through I deglazed the pot with some beer. Added the garlic, chili powder and cumin and have that a quick cook before adding the orange juice and 14 oz of crushed tomatoes. I let it simmer for about two hours before twerking the flavor by adding more chili powder and cumin, salt and pepper, more orange juice, soy sauce, red wine vinegar. Tasting between each additional until I was happy with it. Then I added to drained but not rinsed cans of kidney beans.

Venison is tricky. It doesn’t have enough fat on its own and you may need to add a bit of acid to balance any game flavor or brighten it up.