The Cooking Thread

[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 3 hours ago 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.

[Mark Bolam]

52 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

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

Very trad.

 

Same as Mick, minus the sprouts, which I’m gutted about because I love them, but I only realised we had some when I was ready to carve.

 

I cooked some Yorkies from scratch, which tasted better than they looked.

 

 

[sime42]

54 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

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

Very trad.

 

 

Nice table too. I bet that's got some history. Patina galore.

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

In case anyone thought differently, I did not cook a thing, all the wife’s work.

 

 

[openspaceman]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

In case anyone thought differently, I did not cook a thing, all the wife’s work.

 

 

Whereas I did all of mine except dice the veg and serve up 😛

[sime42]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

 

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.

 

What pin pointer, cable detector in walls kind of thing you mean? Mine was reasonably expensive, but never seems that effective, on much bigger bits of metal than 3mm lead balls.

 

 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

 

What pin pointer, cable detector in walls kind of thing you mean? Mine was reasonably expensive, but never seems that effective, on much bigger bits of metal than 3mm lead balls.

 

 

No, they are little hand held probes for pin pointing where a bit of metal is in the soil after first roughly  "finding" it with a metal detector.

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A good one, my knock of clone is good for finding dropped nuts an bolts but not lead shot.

 

The risk with lead shot is ingesting it and this is one reason game shops cannot sell all the pheasant that are shot, the advice is only to eat lead shot pheasant once a month ( same as bacon??).

 

It is more of a problem if slow cooked in an acidy sauce, not so much if roasted. Generally acids dissolve metal oxides more than metals so it is probably the surface layers of the pellet that have corroded that get ingested.

 

If we get steel shot (and maybe tungsten??) then the shot is likely to be bigger (because it is less dense and will lose too much energy if the same size as lead shot) and more detectable and less poisonous but it will break teeth where lead will not.

 

a brace of pheasant stewed like this will make 4-6 meals for two of us.

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