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A recipe, review & giveaway in collaboration with Carnivore Club.

Wild Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto

I’m not going to lie.

I like meat, and I like meat a lot.

So when Carnivore Club asked me if I’d like to review their latest subscription box I jumped at the chance. I confess, I did review one of their boxes previously and I included a short review in a round up post, but I don’t think I did it justice, so this post is going to be all about them this time.

Carnivore Club - Review and Giveaway

Carnivore Club (isn’t that the most fantastic name for a subscription box, ever?!) is a monthly subscription box that began in Canada and the USA and is now available in the UK. They search the length and breadth of the country for the finest in charcuterie (a word I can still only spell and not pronounce correctly at all!).

Each month members receive a box with 4-6 different handcrafted charcuteries from a different supplier in the UK.

This month’s supplier is the Great Glen Charcuterie based in the rugged highlands of Scotland. Husband and wife team Anja and Jan Jacob, originally from the Netherlands, set up this business ten years ago. All of their products are handcrafted and air dried, and are made using only wild Scottish venison – and it’s all incredibly delicious. Quality artisan produce.

Carnivore Club - Review and Giveaway

This month’s subscription box contained smoked and dry cured sliced venison bresaola made from the prime cuts of wild Scottish venison and matured for up to eight months; venison and pork chorizo; chilli venison chorizo, a mildly spiced venison pork salami made with cracked black peppercorns and a green peppercorn salami, which I used to top this wild venison pizza with wild garlic pesto.

I tried to keep the flavours of the pizza simple so that the taste of the wild venison salami would shine through, and I think it worked really well. There’s enough dough to make two nine inch circular pizzas with a thick crust, or roll it out to fit the size of your baking tray if you prefer a thinner crust.

Wild Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto

I happened to have a jar of wild garlic pesto in my pantry, and some Scottish seaweed lurking in the cupboard, so I thought these ingredients would complement each other very well.

I wasn’t wrong! My husband and I shared this pizza for our lunch and thoroughly enjoyed every bite of it. Wild garlic is just coming into season now with recipes popping up on food blogs across the country. I did have a look at a local patch I know of where it grows, but it’s still too small in Shetland just yet to be harvesting and making my own pesto, but the jarred pesto worked fine.

Wild Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto

All in all I’m still really, really impressed with the Carnivore Club. I like the fact they source high quality local producers, and each box comes with a leaflet describing more about the producer and what they do.

Carnivore Club subscription boxes are available monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly from £29, or you can try a one off subscription box for £32 with free shipping.

Artisan. Handmade. Exclusive. Carnivore Club is the ultimate meat club for discerning individuals. Follow Carnivore Club on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for more meat-loving inspiration.

Wild Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto
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Wild Scottish Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto

A rustic pizza made with wild venison salami from the highlands of Scotland and wild garlic pesto.
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 2 pizzas
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

for the pizza dough

  • 7 grams instant dried yeast
  • 170 grams strong bread flour
  • 170 grams semolina or fine polenta
  • 10 grams sea salt
  • 10 grams caster sugar
  • 210 ml lukewarm water
  • coarse polenta for baking

for the pizza sauce

  • 2 tbsp olive oil I use Pomora (see link in sidebar)
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 tsp dried seaweed I used Mara
  • 1 tin baby plum tomatoes
  • sea salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • caster sugar to taste (optional)

for the toppings

  • 90 grams wild venison salami I used Great Glen Charcuterie
  • 125 grams mozzarella cheese torn into pieces
  • 45 grams wild garlic pesto I used Sacla

Instructions

  • Prepare your pizza dough either by placing the yeast, flour, semolina, salt, sugar and water in your bread machine in the manufacturer's recommended order and selecting the dough or pizza dough cycle. Alternatively, combine all the ingredients except for the water, make a well in the centre, add the water and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for 10 minutes. Transfer to a lightly oiled bowl, cover in cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size, about one hour.
  • Meanwhile, prepare the pizza sauce.
  • Add half the olive oil to a small saucepan along with the garlic and seaweed, if using. Cook over a medium-high heat for one minute.
  • Add the tin of chopped tomatoes and cook for a further 15-20 minutes until it is thick and reduced.
  • Taste test and if it's too acidic add caster sugar to taste - start with one teaspoon. Season to taste with salt and pepper, stir in the remaining olive oil and set aside.
  • Preheat your oven to 240C/220C (fan)/475F. Sprinkle two large baking trays with coarse polenta.
  • Divide the pizza dough into two and roll out onto the baking trays. Leave to prove for a further ten minutes.
  • Divide the pizza sauce between the two pizzas and arrange your toppings.
  • Bake for 12-14 minutes, until the cheese is golden and bubbly.

Click here to view the nutritional information for this recipe.

GIVEAWAY

Carnivore Club have kindly offered to provide the May 2016 Carnivore Club subscription box as a giveaway for one of my UK readers. What’s in this box will be a surprise, but visit their website to see what previous boxes they’ve had to get an indication of the kind of charcuterie they source.  To enter, simply fill out the Rafflecopter entry form below!

HOW TO ENTER

For your chance to win the May 2016 Carnivore Club subscription box worth £32 enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back and tweet about the giveaway every day for more chances to win!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winners will need to respond within 30 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.

The prize is offered and provided by Carnivore Club. The prize is to win the May 2016 Carnivore Club subscription box worth £32 There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.

There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway. The promoter (Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary) reserves the right to cancel or amend the giveaway and these terms and conditions without notice.

Entry into our giveaways will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.

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Closing date is midnight (that’s 00:00 hours, 12 am on Sunday night/Monday morning) on Monday 25 April 2016 (GMT) and the winner will be announced shortly afterwards.

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PS. Did you hear me on the radio yesterday? My 15 minutes of fame talking food and social media on the BBC! This is the last time I’ll mention it – I promise! You can listen to the episode of BBC Radio 4’s Digital Human: Taste online for the next year, if you did miss it yesterday. 😉

Wild Venison Pizza with Wild Garlic Pesto

Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary received a complimentary Carnivore Club subscription box for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. This is not a paid post.

Comments

  1. That pizza looks absolutely amazing! I love the idea of a meat club too! Thank you for the heads up

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  2. My boyfriend is vegetarian, so I don’t get to eat much meat anymore. It’d be great to have something delicious all to myself!

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  5. I’d like to win because both me and my other half are complete carnivores! I’ve been on a curing and smoking course to try and make my own cured meats but the results are still a work in progress!

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  15. I’d love to win this box as I am a big fan of all meat, but recently having moved in with my partner who doesn’t eat beef, I have been trying to diversify our diet. Venison is one thing we have been experimenting more with so this box sounds right up our street!

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  16. They say ‘Variety is the spice of life’ and this would be something a bit different for us to try 🙂

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  32. Because that pizza had me drooling on my keyboard, and I really want to have a go of making it. The meats look really good quality.

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  36. I tend to stick with buying the same meats all the time, so it would be nice to be encouraged to try something different

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  40. it sounds delicious , would be a lovely treat and is far less ordinary than what i normally get – it would bring a bit of luxury to the dinner table

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  42. I would love to win this because my favourite way of cooking is to be given an ingredient and then work from there – I love shopping for reduced products for that reason, I will go shopping late, pick up yellow sticker stuff and then that dictates what I make for the next day’s meals!

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  44. Id like to win because on tuesday i accidently ate a vegetable and i need extra meat to counteract this poison !

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  48. Never tried venison and it’s the last of the popular meats (not the exotic type like crocodile etc) that I haven’t tried. Thanks for the chance. 🙂

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  54. I’d love to win this as i’ve heard about it before and think it would be the perfect subscription box for the boyfriend!

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  55. I would love to win the Carnivore Club subscription box, so i can make the above recipe (as it looks delicious) and to taste the meats available.

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  61. Well firstly I’d like to try out that pizza recipe as it looks AMAZING but also I’ve never actually tried Venison and so would like to see what I’ve been missing out on!

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  62. We use very little meat in our household but when we do we make sure it’s local and ethically produced quality meat. This wonderful prize would certainly fit our criteria. Meat is such a precious commodity!

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  63. We are very much meat eaters in this household, would love to try meats that I have not had before.

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  69. We love eating meat and fresh vegetables. Charcuterie from a reliable supplier is really appealing.

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    • oops pressed return to early :- this is one of my favourite snacks with a glass of red wine so would be great to try some different meats

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  75. It sounds like a wonderful selection of delicious tastes and flavours which would be sure to set the taste buds tingling!

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  81. Venison is a super meat with very little fat but bags of taste. I’d love to try these as I’ve never seen venison prepared in this way.

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  89. I would love to win this for my husband. I am not a fan of meat so he doesn’t get to eat any of the meats that he loves. This would be a fabulous treat for him.

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  91. There are a lot of mail order packs like this these days and I would like to see what you get. I love meat and games is this would be great for making some good recipes.

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  92. I would love to win this subscription box because my partner loves subscription boxes, meat and food, it would be something new to try, he loves cooking and experimenting, this looks gorgeous! It would be a real treat. Thanks for the chance to win. Good Luck everyone!

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  95. Supermarket products are tasteless and watery. It would be great to sample meat that’s produced to a much higher standard.

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  98. This looks so delicious- I love pizza. We are always at farmers markets looking for good quality meat so we would love to try this box!!

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  100. It sounds like really good quality meat – I am generally so uninspired for our meals, so this would definitely push me to cook something out of the ordinary 🙂

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  113. I would like to win it because I think my Grandad would absolutely love it! I might have to try a bit for myself though 😛

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  115. To be able to show my children the colours of real food f=not orange food from the freezer like nuggests

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  116. I would like to win this as an example that food can be interesting and not orange coloured of processed food from the freezer

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  126. I know someone who would LOVE this, he would love the name of the boxes to. I mus share it with him 🙂

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  132. I love the look of all the salamis and different meats that have been in previous boxes, I love salami’s and chorizo etc but never tend to stray from my usual brand so this would be great to try new things

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  135. Our family love to sit down every weekend and eat together, we love to try new foods from around the world, my kids would love this!

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  140. There are so many different dishes I could make with all of this, and even to make a charcuterie board for a dinner party starter!

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  141. I’d love to win this just to show my other half the quality of meats you can get that aren’t from the freezer cabinets in supermarkets 😉

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  148. I’d like to win because I’m a real meat-lover, I’ve tried all sorts prepared all different ways and the Carnivore Club Box looks like it would feed my cravings nicely!

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  154. I’m really adventurous and love to try new things, this would be a great way of satisfying my curiosity

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  156. Oh WOW, another EA superfind. Wild Scottish Venison brings out the wolf in me; my canines are twitching in anticipation

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  170. It looks delicious. I would love to win this so that I could bring a greater variety of dishes to the table when cooking for my family.

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  176. Great recipe, it looks so delicious! I love that you’ve added seaweed into the sauce. Nice idea which I’ll use for my next tomato sauce. I’d not come across Carnivore Club but it seems like a brilliant idea. As a native Austrian, I love cured meat/charcuterie but the good stuff can’t be bought in the average supermarket of course. I particularly like that it’s all British produce and has a seasonal focus. Thanks again!
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