Promoting the eating of Game

[Cycling Naturalist]

Lincs is very much partridge shooting country though isn't it? Woodcock aside, partidge is my absolute favourite, with a deep creamy breast and a hungry diner's plateful per bird. In terms of shooting they also provide some of the most spectacular sport going.

To my mind partridge and hare are the tastiest of all game. The best deal going is to get badly shot carcases and use them for pates and terrines.

 

[TVC]

Sometimes I do, the local farm shop does rabbit in season quite cheap. A mate of mine also goes out shooting on his uncles farm, so I look forward to my (irregular) supply of home made bunny burgers.

 

[661-Pete]

There is some logic in eating food from the wild. Odd, maybe, for someone such as myself who has renounced meat altogether, to talk positively about game-meat. But I still enjoy mushrooms and fruits gathered from the wild.

But...

As often as not when I see game, it's in the form of roadkill. Usually a pheasant. Sometime a passing motorist will gather it up but - no thank you! Even the thought of having to clean up this wretched bird and remove its entrails...

I was, quite by chance, witness to a grouse or pheasant shoot, up on the Yorkshire moors, a year or two ago. I found the sight distressing. Well I would, wouldn't I!

And there is a school of thinking that game, especially game birds, must be 'well hung'. Well I'm sure the experts will go to lengths to explain the difference between hung and putrefying, so I'm sure there is a difference. I have seen a hanging pheasant with maggots on it, so not everyone gets it right!

Anyway, academic for me. No meat means no game, unless one counts certain wild fish as game, but I don't believe that's so.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Sometimes I do, the local farm shop does rabbit in season quite cheap. A mate of mine also goes out shooting on his uncles farm, so I look forward to my (irregular) supply of home made bunny burgers.

You are sensible to think in terms of burgers. Genuine game is wild and somewhat tough. There are very few cuts that can be roasted for example. The best venison I've tasted has been in sausages. There's a lot of cooking mythology based on "Get a plump young grouse" when such things don't really exist outside the colour supplements. Bear in mind that the best produce is retained by those who shoot it, and it's the tougher stuff that hits the market. It's still potentially delicious, but usually it's best casseroled. Despite all the nonsense about pigeon breast, much the best pigeon is casseroled in red wine, garlic and button mushooms.

 

[Cab]

I cook loads of game. Love it. Hare is one of my favourite things, was given one a fortnight ago, hung it, skinned it, gutted it, bled it, and jugged it. Wonderful dish.

I prefer swapping with people who shoot for game in as un-processed form as possible. Plucking, drawing etc. doesn't bother me, and seeing the state of the animal in the raw form helps inform me how to process it.

 

[Cab]

To my mind partridge and hare are the tastiest of all game. The best deal going is to get badly shot carcases and use them for pates and terrines.

Hare offal makes one of the tasties terrines there is.

 

[chap]

Game!

Someone was saying the other day that the shops are full of game. Apparently a lot of the celeb chefs are telling people that it is nutricious, delicious and low fat, not farmed and very tasty.

How many people on here eat game? How do you cook it?

If you don't eat game then tell us why not. We could try and persuade you, and share some recipes at the same time.

(all this prompted by a brace of pheasants braised in cider and apples about to appear on the Cube family table in about half an hour)

Now THIS is a thread! Game is excellant quality, and more economical that the regurgitated / sub-quality Chicken and Beef leftovers one buys from their Tescos, Sainsburys, and ASDAs. Suport the local butcher and get some quality meat!

Plus the hunting season has just started for most!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Plus the hunting season has just started for most!

How do you cook fox then?

 

[XmisterIS]

Plus the hunting season has just started for most!

I love to go chav hunting with my 12-bore. It's fair game!

 

[Baggy]

Venison is pretty tasty
Can't cope with the idea of pheasant since we had a relatively tame one living on our lawn though...

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Venison is pretty tasty
Can't cope with the idea of pheasant since we had a relatively tame one living on our lawn though...

The most I've counted in the garden is nine. They're so tame that it would be an abuse of hospitality to shoot them, as well as being very non sporting.

 

[Baggy]

The most I've counted in the garden is nine. They're so tame that it would be an abuse of hospitality to shoot them, as well as being very non sporting.

Indeed. Uncle Monty (as he became known) would eat bird seed from your hand.

 

[Saddle bum]

I get a pair of pheasants or brace of partridge every week from the shoot I'm a member of.

I some times curry the pheasants, makes a change.

I also get some venison when I do a mate a favour.

Nom, nom, nom.............

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

I get a pair of pheasants or brace of partridge every week from the shoot I'm a member of.

I some times curry the pheasants, makes a change.

I also get some venison when I do a mate a favour.

Nom, nom, nom.............

Pheasant can be problematic as the taste varies according to what they've been feeding on. If the've been on kale, then they can taste very bitter. Also, they can be quite badly shot up at times.

 

[postman]

Blows the dust off his festive joke book.

To reveal this beauty.

Farmer walking his dog in local woods.Is surprised by a naked lady who appears from behind a tree.

"Are you game " asks the surprised Farmer .

"Oh yes" replies the the attractive lady .


So he shot her .