Thread: Dinner

That is garlic butter Lurpak garlic butter comes in a small 125 g pack like this

Just nice to put a drop on top of the warm prawns

Packaged prepared garlic butter.
What'll they think of next.


For those who might be culinarily challenged as our resident gourmand Nige, it is quite simple to create fused butter, such as garlic butter.

Ya got it good Nige.

I make my own garlic butter by crushing a few cloves off garlic and nuking them for 20 seconds with some butter.

Same goes for my Spanish Aioli.

Nice starter with some crispy bread.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

What a lucky boy am I tonight !!

Just finished our lovely meal tonight when the door bell rang and the bosses brother presented me with 3 braces of pheasants he shot on Saturday .

Very nice indeed ! always up for a freebie


Here I am getting stuck into these bad boys , problem is 3 birds in and there is a lot of shot in em ,, fair enough these boys shoot to kill not to eat so I have changed tack and am simply gonna cut the breasts off and I will cook in a beautiful cream sauce tomorrow .

Bland shit ! indeed ! I'll show ya

What was the hammer for?

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

I have changed tack and am simply gonna cut the breasts off and I will cook in a beautiful cream sauce tomorrow . Bland shit ! indeed ! I'll show ya

As with venison, aren't you supposed to hang them for a couple of weeks until the meat is almost smelling rotten ?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

I have changed tack and am simply gonna cut the breasts off and I will cook in a beautiful cream sauce tomorrow . Bland shit ! indeed ! I'll show ya

As with venison, aren't you supposed to hang them for a couple of weeks until the meat is almost smelling rotten ?

I'm more curious as to what the hammer is used for in this application....

Originally Posted by thaimeme

I'm more curious as to what the hammer is used for in this application.

He's probably using the claw end to snap the feet off for Jan, so he has more breast for himself

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Didn't wanna make it too gamey for her Dill she aint eaten this before

So this isn't the first time you've had pheasant then Nige ?

poaching off poachers

I ran a pheasant over on the A46 at 90mph before, a friend told me you're not allowed to pick it up and take it home if you run it over, but you can if you're in the car behind.

Not that that bird was good for anyone, it took a huge chunk out of my bumper and all of its innards were spattered around my engine bay.

Looking forward to see what you do with the breasts Nige.

Not poachers mate , the guvnors brother , their birds shot on their farmland .

He has offered to bring me ducks as well but I can't be arsed plucking them poxy things , anyway the missus would only wanna chop the crap out the bloody thing to completely destroy it into larb ped

Oh and she would want to slurp the blood at the table ,,, naaah this aint Issan !

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

What a lucky boy am I tonight !!

Just finished our lovely meal tonight when the door bell rang and the bosses brother presented me with 3 braces of pheasants he shot on Saturday .

Very nice indeed ! always up for a freebie


Here I am getting stuck into these bad boys , problem is 3 birds in and there is a lot of shot in em ,, fair enough these boys shoot to kill not to eat so I have changed tack and am simply gonna cut the breasts off and I will cook in a beautiful cream sauce tomorrow .

Bland shit ! indeed ! I'll show ya

so nige, your not a pheasant plucker? your a pheasant pluckers son, only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes along . Try saying that quickly

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

I can't be arsed plucking them poxy things

Bollocks to plucking them, skin them is the way to go.

Bland shit ! indeed ! I'll show ya

Your paella looks fantastic, Nigel

Well it was the wife's I will show her your comments thanks

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

The hammer was used to put a couple of nails in the side of the table to hook carrier bags on to put all the bits + pieces in as I go along , I also got 2 buckets of water to wash the meat of stray feathers + blood as I go

33 mins to dress 6 birds still aint lost me touch

I shit her up with them feet , I caught her looking at me in the conservatory through the corner of me eye , so I cut through the skin both sides of the knee then snap + twist em out so the leeders come out the thighs , the Ive turned round to show her the delicious feet ( YUK ) then pulled the leaders to operate the claws ,,, she soon went back to watching Emmerdale

Didn't wanna make it too gamey for her Dill she aint eaten this before

One clever Fellow.....

Wouldn't have been easier to have all this done for you?
You folks do have servants, dontcha?

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by Dillinger

As with venison, aren't you supposed to hang them for a couple of weeks until the meat is almost smelling rotten ?

That must be a British thing I grew up hunting and we never did anything like that. Gross.

We would hang them for a four or five days otherwise the meat gets dried out. But only if it is cool outside.

There's not much that compares with a good venison cut -
Don't need to cook it much. Medium rare.

Earthy and gamey.

Big deal, Magic Johnsons had it for 25 years

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Big deal, Magic Johnsons had it for 25 years

Wrong thread, Dillinger?

Oh yeah

Here's another pork chop to atone

I hate pork chops now

Should have put some gravy on that fish head starter, main course looks all right.

Here's my pork loin chops from today, the kids had sausages

Looks good mate ^

Ok here is the results of last nights freebies kindly delivered to me .

Firstly I prepared shallots , spring onions , red pepper , garlic and mushrooms


Thinly sliced the breasts double checking for lead shot as I go







Then I lobbed the remainder of that garlic butter into the wok and 3/4 cooked the meat

Then I added 1 and half pots of single cream and cooked for a further 10 mins slowly






Now I am on a low salt diet so I added a little to taste + some lime juice




Served on a bed of freshly cooked Thai jasmine , Jan added quite a bit more salt to hers at the table . It was delicious even though I say it myself and I am full for virtually free .