The Cooking Thread

[Mesterh]

2 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

It is a great post, but he’s wrong about roast pheasant, and venison.

I do like roast pheasant, never tried roast reindeer tbh. Ill give it a go though when I buy a bigger house.

[AHPP]

I’ve been watching Outdoor Boys videos recently. Particularly enjoy his cooking. Doing a little homage meal now. Bread balls with cheese in the middle and bacon, served with honey butter (which is what attracted me to him in the first place). Done on the fire inside because it’s raining outside and I don’t have any children whose characters need building with that sort of suffering. 

 

 

[markieg31]

Usually parts of my car bumper i am picking out of a pheasant carcass 

[markieg31]

I have bloody loads of the refugees on my farm. Could easily get a few with the air rifle if it took my fancy. 

[openspaceman]

On 04/12/2025 at 23:44, AHPP said:

Tear bird in half. Crop and neck out, guts out, peel it.

More simple steps please. I've plucked them, skinned them but if this is simpler and quicker I'll have a go.

 

I've a brace hanging, first in over five years. I shall check the meat for steel shot with a pin pointer.

[AHPP]

7 hours ago, openspaceman said:

More simple steps please. I've plucked them, skinned them but if this is simpler and quicker I'll have a go.

 

I've a brace hanging, first in over five years. I shall check the meat for steel shot with a pin pointer.

 

I'm really not the expert. I just start and it happens.

 

From memory, order flexible:

• Bird on its back.
• Tear open skin at belly, pull skin off whatever seems easy, eventually rip fully round the waist so there's trouser skin and jumper skin.
• Guts out.
• Ideally the arsehole will come out with the rest of the guts if you do it roughly enough. Poke it through with your finger or cut the bone with secateurs and rake it out if necessary.
• Separate legs section from breast section, spine should break by hand.
• Axe to chop off feet and wings once you've peeled feathery skin back over them.

Someone on youtube can almost certainly do it better.

[AHPP]

On 06/10/2025 at 15:38, Mick Dempsey said:

Looks foul. 

 

**************** you and the horse you rode in on. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Sailor got a bit of a dicky tummy?

[Mick Dempsey]

Not normally a thread I frequent, but here’s Sunday nights offering. Chicken stuffing, sprouts, carrots, mashed swede, cauliflower,gravy.

Very trad.

Edited Sunday at 18:46 by Mick Dempsey
Just see Igor at my feet waiting for his share.

[openspaceman]

 

pheasant casserole cooked in slow cooker with squash, sweet potato, tomatoes and carrots. served with potato and peas.

 

My cheap pin pointer was not sensitive enough to find 3mm lead balls, I wonder if a better one would.