What's for dinner tonight?

[DrHenley]

Gammon = Ham that is cured or smoked like bacon.

Yes, I had to look it up. Where the heck do you even get pheasant? (other than hunting).

I think most people in the US use "Cornish Game Hen" (AKA "Rock Cornish Hen") as a substitute, which is neither a game bird nor necessarily a hen. I't a small chicken bred to be about the same size as a pheasant at 6 weeks.

 

[Maverick]

Whole Foods here sale pheasant meat, I prefer pheasant over cornish game hen but both are good, pheasant more flavorful.

 

[user 5745]

Gammon = Ham that is cured or smoked like bacon.

Yes, I had to look it up. Where the heck do you even get pheasant? (other than hunting). It's probably at the family market I go to about 1/mo. Great place for meats and deli, (and some really odd old school stuff, like turn of the century type meds), but everything else there is overpriced....so we typically just get some meats and the odd stuff there, then go shopping/shopping at Winn Dixie (prices and meats) and Publix (for bogos and produce only). Used to do the produce stand, but with just the two of us, the quantities to buy there are just too much.

Our local butcher gets pheasant along with venison, rabbit, partridge, the occasional hare. Outside the town where I grew up, you couldn't drive a mile without smacking into a pheasant or a rabbit. I once got passed by a car with a bit of fresh blood on its front bumper and, happily, turned the next corner to find a gorgeous fat pheasant with a neatly broken neck smack in the middle of the road. Straight into the boot with it.

Your market's turn of the century meds sound interesting - what sort of stuff? I have visions of Epsom salts and cod liver oil.

 

[Gazrok]

mercurochrome, that kind of stuff. I should snap a pic, next time I'm there.

Just a bunch of the meds our grandparents would use on our parents, when they were kids.

I mean, even the packaging of these things looks like something sold by a snake oil salesman, LOL...

 

[DrHenley]

Whole Foods here sale pheasant meat, I prefer pheasant over cornish game hen but both are good, pheasant more flavorful.

No "Whole Paychecks" within 100 miles of here. Fresh Market is the closest thing we've got.

 

[DrHenley]

Your market's turn of the century meds sound interesting - what sort of stuff? I have visions of Epsom salts and cod liver oil.

Paregoric, Calamine lotion, Milk of Magnesia, Merthiolate, Doan's Liver Pills, Carter's Little Pills, Castor Oil, Tiger Balm, and yes Epsom Salts and Cod Liver Oil. About half of those are just laxatives, LOL.

 

[lonewolf]

I really must make more of "roadkill"!!

 

[Gazrok]

Paregoric, Calamine lotion, Milk of Magnesia, Merthiolate, Doan's Liver Pills, Carter's Little Pills, Castor Oil, Tiger Balm, and yes Epsom Salts and Cod Liver Oil. About half of those are just laxatives, LOL.

Yep, those and more.

 

[user 5745]

Right, posting pictures of Pie of Glory. Pastry: hot water crust. I hadn't made this for about 25 years, so it was good to find out that the knack hadn't deserted me. Filling: pheasant, gammon, black pudding, bacon, mushroom, shallot and garden pea, with the remains of the parsely sauce stirred through it.

 

[Brent S]

sliced potatoes, fishcake and peas. brown sauce.

Fish cake? I know there is something lost in translation there... I’m picturing a fish flavored birthday cake lol. One way to stick to a diet

 

[Brent S]

Right, posting pictures of Pie of Glory. Pastry: hot water crust. I hadn't made this for about 25 years, so it was good to find out that the knack hadn't deserted me. Filling: pheasant, gammon, black pudding, bacon, mushroom, shallot and garden pea, with the remains of the parsely sauce stirred through it.

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Meat pie sounds great, but I’m suspicious of what black pudding is.

 

[Maverick]

Black pudding is good (blood sausage)

Hardly anyplace sales it

 

[Brent S]

Black pudding is good (blood sausage)

Hardly anyplace sales it

I thought it was probably blood sausage, but was hopefull it was something less cringeworthy. There’s a good reason no one sells it..... I know it’s just a mental thing, but that dish just dropped a few notches on my list.

 

[tmttactical]

I thought it was probably blood sausage, but was hopefull it was something less cringeworthy. There’s a good reason no one sells it..... I know it’s just a mental thing, but that dish just dropped a few notches on my list.

It dropped completely off my list.

 

[user 5745]

I thought it was probably blood sausage, but was hopefull it was something less cringeworthy. There’s a good reason no one sells it..... I know it’s just a mental thing, but that dish just dropped a few notches on my list.

Pretend I never typed it I love a good black pudding, and the Fruit Pig Co. stuff I get is excellent, but the bad stuff is truly bad (like bad haggis).

Right now, I've got red cabbage braising in the oven with apple, onion, a touch of garlic, spices and red wine vinegar, all ready to go with my traditional Yuletide duck on Friday. Orange slices in an (intentionally) slightly burnt caramel are in the fridge, to be partnered with cardamom quince, fresh hazelnut praline and some good vanilla ice-cream.

 

[lonewolf]

I think you have to spend some time in the North of England to appreciate Black pudding, its fantastic but most Southerners are too "nesh"(wet) to appreciate it.
Quiche and baked beans tonight.

 

[Gazrok]

Here's the cake I did.

 

[Brent S]

Pretend I never typed it I love a good black pudding, and the Fruit Pig Co. stuff I get is excellent, but the bad stuff is truly bad (like bad haggis).

Right now, I've got red cabbage braising in the oven with apple, onion, a touch of garlic, spices and red wine vinegar, all ready to go with my traditional Yuletide duck on Friday. Orange slices in an (intentionally) slightly burnt caramel are in the fridge, to be partnered with cardamom quince, fresh hazelnut praline and some good vanilla ice-cream.

Sorry, I know it’s a cultural thing and shouldn’t knock anyone’s tastes. Variety is what makes the world interesting. I’m still not eating it though.... lol. I’ve tried such delicacies as snails, raw oysters and fish eggs too that others seem to love. Yuk! But to each their own.

 

[Brent S]

Here's the cake I did. View attachment 9271

Awesome work!

 

[user 5745]

Here's the cake I did.

Great work - the beard is fanastic

 

[Gazrok]

My wife's phone takes much better pics.

 

[Gazrok]

Thanks, my wife's phone takes a better pic, but what I had handy.

 

[WGregMiller]

Sorry, I know it’s a cultural thing and shouldn’t knock anyone’s tastes. Variety is what makes the world interesting. I’m still not eating it though.... lol. I’ve tried such delicacies as snails, raw oysters and fish eggs too that others seem to love. Yuk! But to each their own.

You don’t like raw oysters?

You didn’t drink enough beer. That was the problem!

 

[Brent S]

You don’t like raw oysters?

You didn’t drink enough beer. That was the problem!

The taste wasn’t too bad, but the slime factor kicks in my gag reflex every time! I really gave it a shot too, but the whole lugi thing just did it in for me. Seriously, I realize some sailor got marooned on a desert isle one time. Ok, I get it, he had to eat this stuff to survive. One day he got rescued though and came back to civilization. It’s time to stop eating this stuff, seriously....

 

[WGregMiller]

The taste wasn’t too bad, but the slime factor kicks in my gag reflex every time! I really gave it a shot too, but the whole lugi thing just did it in for me. Seriously, I realize some sailor got marooned on a desert isle one time. Ok, I get it, he had to eat this stuff to survive. One day he got rescued though and came back to civilization. It’s time to stop eating this stuff, seriously....

Yeah. I can see that, but alcohol helps a lot. Same way with sushi. Pour enough sake down and you can eat just about any of it. Plus, any worms that may have been in it died a happy death, lol.

 

[Brent S]

Yeah. I can see that, but alcohol helps a lot. Same way with sushi. Pour enough sake down and you can eat just about any of it. Plus, any worms that may have been in it died a happy death, lol.

Lol. I was good with sushi until reading about the worms, so haven’t had it in a while. After seeing a guy that had 6’ worms removed I’m not sure there’s enough alcohol to get me to eat it anymore! I still like California rolls though. I’m sure most is imitation crab but at least it was cooked....

 

[WGregMiller]

Lol. I was good with sushi until reading about the worms, so haven’t had it in a while. After seeing a guy that had 6’ worms removed I’m not sure there’s enough alcohol to get me to eat it anymore! I still like California rolls though. I’m sure most is imitation crab but at least it was cooked....

Actually, I haven’t had any raw sushi in a long time either. But that sake was good, best I remember......

 

[Brent S]

Actually, I haven’t had any raw sushi in a long time either. But that sake was good, best I remember......

After three shots of warm saki I can’t taste it anymore!

 

[Maverick]

Raw oysters, pilot crackers and beer! When I worked the shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico we would snack on raw shrimp, wasn't bad at all.

 

[lonewolf]

"Bangers and Mash"(wild Boar sausages and mashed potato) with broad beans.