What's for dinner ?

[bushwacker]

Capons: Are Chickens Without Their Testes a Forgotten Delicacy or Disturbing Luxury? - Modern Farmer

How is it that the capon has been left behind even as consumers demand a greater range of choice?

modernfarmer.com

Rooster informs me its bollocks

 

[E. By Gum]

Fish and chips, Martins was open.

 

[noddy]

Ham and chips with some pickled beetroot I made a few weeks back. Gorgeous

 

[Saint-Just]

Chicken ramen yesterday evening. Using Brilliant Chicken broth with added chilli flakes and spring onions ass it needs spicing up a bit, but a really good starting point, and chicken thighs.

 

[MaC]

.....just before nine the doorbell RINGS (I'm deaf, it's really loud).
Himself answers, I hear murmers and then the door closing.
Himself turns round with a bulging black bin bag in one hand....t'was the friendly neighbourhood poacher, who got nine greylag geese last night.

So, there's twa deid geese now hanging up in the greenhouse to be plucked and prepped for Himself's Christmas dinner

I hate plucking birds :sigh:

 

[Saint-Just]

Goose is great. So much better than turkey.

 

[Juttle]

.....just before nine the doorbell RINGS (I'm deaf, it's really loud).
Himself answers, I hear murmers and then the door closing.
Himself turns round with a bulging black bin bag in one hand....t'was the friendly neighbourhood poacher, who got nine greylag geese last night.

So, there's twa deid geese now hanging up in the greenhouse to be plucked and prepped for Himself's Christmas dinner

I hate plucking birds :sigh:

I find skinning is far better for both the fingers and the temper. Once skinned, wrap the bird in the fattest bacon you can find and cook accordingly. I’ve done this with canada’s, greylags, pheasants and mallard. It works very well with pheasant as it produces a bird that is half reasonable eating rather than the usual bland and boring offering usually associated with pheasant!

 

[MaC]

I don't buy turkey. I actually feel sorry for those daft beasts.
At least the geese were just living life one moment and dead the next.

I have a goose breast 'crown' ready for Himself in the freezer, and venison for the New Year.
I always feel it such a waste to get a whole bird because he only eats the breast, and the rest isn't even turned into stock or soup.

Ah well, the fox can have his Christmas dinner too with the rest of it.

I think we'll just take off the breasts of these one too.
Himself might eat meat, but he's picky, and I know that at least he'll eat that. Might do a stuffed roast with them. That would be good hot or cold.
There's only him to eat it, so it's kind of a lot.

 

[Saint-Just]

The wings and legs can be cooked in warm fat, it's a great delicacy that keeps for ages.
I searched for the first recipe in English but you'll find more if this one doesn't do.
You can also add the neck since you'll have it. The liver is worth cooking too. I know you're a veggie and your other half may be picky but a son, DiL or anyone else you may know may enjoy that more. There will still be bits to feed Mr Fox

 

[MaC]

The wings and legs can be cooked in warm fat, it's a great delicacy that keeps for ages.
I searched for the first recipe in English but you'll find more if this one doesn't do.
You can also add the neck since you'll have it. The liver is worth cooking too. I know you're a veggie and your other half may be picky but a son, DiL or anyone else you may know may enjoy that more. There will still be bits to feed Mr Fox

Himself is the only family member who eats meat. DIL is vegan, the rest of us vegetarian.

We try very hard not to isolate or make things awkward for him. We don't proselytise.
We do use different pots/cutlery, etc., but we've done it for so long now that it's just the way the house runs and is now instinctive.
I like as little stress and hassle as possilbe.
If every good Jewess can manage her dairy seperate from her meat, I can do this

 

[Saint-Just]

 

[5teep]

Sea bass fried in garlic butter with roast potatoes and veg.

 

[MaC]

Comfort food.
Chips, baked mini camembert with cranberry sauce, sweetcorn, and a salad.

 

[noddy]

Going to make some kind of spicy seafood soup with whatever's in the freezer. Lots of clams, shrimps and roughy .. plus a bit of salmon, I am hoping.

The stock and ramen route, the coconut milk route or the potatoes and corn route .... not decided. Watched slow horses yesterday .. .meant to keep it for today.

 

[Saint-Just]

I vote chowder (potatoes/corn)

 

[noddy]

Ha! You win, Marc!

Nice ripasso to go with it ... plus a bit of a binge on Doom Patrol

The wings and legs can be cooked in warm fat, it's a great delicacy that keeps for ages.

Have not seen edible confit since I have been here

 

[Saint-Just]

Ha! You win, Marc!

Nice ripasso to go with it ... plus a bit of a binge on Doom Patrol



Have not seen edible confit since I have been here

Make your own! It’s not difficult (the balance of salt is a little bit if you want to keep it) and very rewarding. Of course if it can go through customs I might stumble on some next time we go to France. Duck confit is much easier to find than goose nowadays. It used to be the opposite.

 

[ElThomsono]

I made a curry last night, mainly turmeric and cumin but I think there were some onions in it too. I've got a pack of bratwurst (from Tesco of all places) so that should make for a decent lunch.

 

[MaC]

Lunch will be pizza. The dough's rising

 

[ElThomsono]

I've had 2½ Bratwurst, a sensible breakfast at half ten. Saff ate almost an entire one herself, how does she do it?

 

[MaC]

I've had 2½ Bratwurst, a sensible breakfast at half ten. Saff ate almost an entire one herself, how does she do it?

She's a toddler.....all tummies and tantrums

 

[5teep]

Beef stew simmering away slowly.

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Hairy Bikers sausage casserole with sweet potato and butternut squash.
Tried the new knife - Holy Shit, but it's sharp...

 

[MaC]

Salad, we're spoiled, I can buy salad stuffs in the middle of Winter
So, butterhead lettuce, mixed herb leaves, leaves from the celery, as a base, then I sliced up an apple, opened up a tangerine, halved a lot of cherry toms, sliced up some cucumber, added some cashew nuts, a few chestnut mushrooms, some smoked cheese in small cubes, some pieces of rich red cheddar, some fried tofu chunks that had been marinded first before I battered them. Big spoonful of a totally full of calories coleslaw, a drizzle of pumpkin seed oil and a wee shake of the balsamic vinegar and a bit of salt.

Very full even Son2 didn't want any chocolate for pudding.

 

[BorderReiver]

Turkey mince Bolognese in one pan from the BBC because I was feeling idle. Fry onion and mince then bung in everything else and simmer.
It was actually edible and not unpleasant taste wise.