Women's Outdoor News Jan. 2014 | Page 29

WOMEN’SOUTDOORSNEWS January 2014 WONDERFULFARE Venison Ragu Easy Peach Cobbler 1 quart canned venison 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 garlic cloves 1 can beef stock 1/2 cup red wine 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 1 can white beans Fresh green beans Gnocchi 2 (30-ounce) cans sliced peaches 1 yellow cake mix, dry 1 can lemon-lime soda By Michelle Cerino By Marti Davis Cut venison into cubes. Sauté garlic in olive oil. Add meat to oil and brown. Put meat in crockpot and cover with beef stock and dry red wine. Set your crockpot to low or high, depending on what time you want to serve the meal. Cook gnocchi 20 minutes before you are ready to eat. Remove everything from crockpot and put in a large pot. Being to a simmer and add heavy whipping cream until it reaches desired consistency. Then add your white beans and fresh green beans. Cook until green beans are tender crisp. Add your gnocchi and serve. Drain and cut peaches into bite size pieces. Into a 12inch Dutch oven, add the peaches. Pour cake mix over peaches, then pour soda over the cake mix. Stir to mix completely. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes. When cooking outdoors use 16 briquettes on top and 8 briquettes under. Rotate oven and lid every 15 minutes. Serves: 8-10 For Dutch oven cooking and cleaning tips visit Marti Davis Afield: Dutch oven cooking at Women’sOutdoorNews.com Mia Anstine Mia Anstine is a guide and co-owner at Wolf CreekOutfitters, Inc. She spends nearly 150 days per year hunting, fishing, shooting and learning. Mia aspires to make the world a better place through education, mentoring and sharing her passions. As a child, she spent her time near the river in front of her home and hiking in the hills behind. It is there that she began her adventures and learned to respect the outdoors. Now, she hopes to share all of that that with you through writing about experiences while raising her daughter to love and respect the outdoors and shooting. Mia pens the column “Mia & the Little Gal” at The WON. She is proud to be sponsored by, write for and represent Girls with Guns Clothing, Beretta USA, Western Whitetail magazine, Próis Hunting & Field Apparel, HerCamoShop and TenPoint Crossbows. Sara Ahrens Sara Ahrens is a police sergeant in Illinois with 17 years of experience. Highlights of her career include assignments in Training, SWAT, Bike Patrol, Vice and Patrol. Sara ran training for 4 years, and some of her responsibilities included analyzing officer’s use of force and developing training based on those trends, running the firearms program as the Range Master and the maintenance of all weapons. A veteran, Sara served 11 years in the US Army and Army Reserves. She is an avid hunter, and as a result, can be found on the pro-staff of Próis Hunting and Field Apparel for women. Sara participated in the third season of the History Channel’s “Top Shot” and has appeared on several episodes of the Outdoor Channel’s “Shooting Gallery”. In addition to writing “OffBeat”, sponsored by Armed in Stilettos, Sara contributes to Beretta USA’s blog. Learn more about Sara at The WON. 29