Tonight I cooked...

[Reynard]

Well, just now, for tonight... a venison and breast of lamb stew. I was visiting some close friends on their dairy farm, and cooked dinner for them. I happened to mention that I ought to get another delivery of wild venison from a company south of Dartmoor, and the farmer's wife said "Would you like some? We've got a freezer full of it!" (Someone comes onto the farm to control numbers of them, so there's no shortage.) So one very large carrier-bagful came back to my small freezer, and tonight's stew is my first batch. To be served with spuds and carrots after work.

Game pie for Christmas?

Bet that venison tastes good. Organic, free range, not mucked about with... My local butcher stocks local venison - farmed during the summer and wild during the winter. Their made-on-the-premises venison sausages are just sublime!

 

[Reynard]

Chana & pumpkin dal with basmati rice, then an apple lokshen kugel for afters.

 

[gbb]

Not 'tonight' but just had a very successful Sunday lunch.
Cheap cut of beef, seared then toasted.low at 160c for maybe 3.5 hours, lard placed on top thn occasionally basted. For a cheap cut, it was really nice and quite tender, not the best ever but quite nice all the same.
Cabbage, swede, both with added butter once cooked, carrots, nice thick gravy and frozen Yorkshire (my only concession to.making it easy) a few roast potatoes dome in the meat tray.
Nice when everyone eating comments, its been a moderately carp morning, too busy, but that makes up for it

 

[gbb]

Game pie for Christmas?

Bet that venison tastes good. Organic, free range, not mucked about with... My local butcher stocks local venison - farmed during the summer and wild during the winter. Their made-on-the-premises venison sausages are just sublime!

Sometimes, an absolute standout meal can be remembered for decades and game pie is mine. An impromptu stop at a pub in a village pub near Belvoir Castle circa 1976, game pie ?, we will try it.
Sublime was the only description needed