Just put them in your freezer and when lent is over, you have the ultimate treat.
I have raised pheasants and cooked wild ones for years...what are you wanting? I often take the breasts off and put all the rest of the meat in a crock pot to cook a couple of hours. Then the meat will fall off the bones, I then grind it up or you can pulse it in a food processor lightly. I then add chopped onions, and Italian pork sausage...make pheasant burgers....oh once you have eaten these babies...you will never go back.
The breasts are delicious fried in olive oil, butter or how the real serious hunters fry them lightly in lard. Oh those are to die for. I also like to roast them like a duck or game hen....just remember if you over cook them they get dry...so baste. I also at time put butter and herbs on them periodically and turn the bird too. Just ask, will check back to gladly help you along.
Please keep in mind a pheasant is about twenty five dollars each so if you don't know how to clean them, I could help you along.
The word truffles just rolls off the tongue...just like good chocolate
I would say that if you know how hardy their sausages and cheese are you would understand they should be just fine to eat. In the USA everything is on a totally different level. Just eat a taste tad and if you do get sick, it might be you cannot handle their foods. Remember they travel alot with things unrefrigerated and thus that is why they sent it to you..it is hardy food.
Oyster stew is a tradition for a big group meal. Add beef or turkey and we are set..just bring in the crowd.
Do you remember when you were a child and everyone ate them.?????..oyster stew is the answer. The taste in the milk will pretty much determine if he likes the taste with oysters. The only other way I would introduce someone is smoked oysters on a cracker. They are great and this leads to bigger things. This isn't an expensive venture either.
At night when the munchies hit...always looking for the newest recipe to try in the upcoming days.
How old was your bartender? The real bartenders know quality but the newbies are taught to mix up colorful, trendy drinks to build the overhead. Whiskey on the rocks is a third of the price of most drinks today. Rather like buying a dependable car...we know what we want...the basics... but the younger generation, no offense to the youngings, want the bells and whistles...just like that on their computers and iphones.
Wrapped around gorganzola........I am in pork heaven!!!! Send me back to Iowa!!!!
If you critize my food, I stuff turkey feathers in your hair, threaten you with the roaster lid, throw the turkey carcass at you as I boot you out into the cold of night.
Otherwise I am rather a very nice person.
Bacon chocolate chip cookies...they are the absolute!
When I travel, I always take some comfort food along and what is better than tossing in a couple tins of smoked oysters in my travel bag. Especially in winter when I might get snowbound for days at a motel and don't feel like room service or climbing snow drifts to find a great little cafe or deli.
I have found some great brands that have giant sized oysters in the tins and I always pick up five or six tins when I know I will have a friends come over for an ice cold brew. And if you have a cat or two just pouring the cottonseed oil on their cat food really a treat for them too.
make mine ribeye please
whoops..I said under the grill..I meant broiler..Well either way I am having a roasted pheasant, oyster stew and bacon topped acorn squash and my pets are having turkey soup with a liver entree. Have a merry one!!!
I can cook for you but we are expecting a blizzard and the roads might be a little icy...but until then, I just broil them under the grill...serve fun and festive food...don't go to alot of work. Surf and turf is nice, if you have little ones who don't care for steak...slice them up in strips and try some fun dipping options. Onion blossoms are fun, a bright salad, cheesecake....have fun with loved ones, it is that which matters most.
A frothy cup of hot chocolate with cinnamon stick...love, love!!!
When I can't locate another, I turn to Etsy.com or Ebay.com and usually if not right away, but in the coming weeks find an exact replacement for several dollars. Best to you.
Ah peanut butter...I was born with a jar of Skippy in my hand.
It is the staple of my life and when I was young, my mother would make these amazing cookies with the track of the peanut butter monster on the top. Little did I know he had feet that resembled the tines of a fork.
Every night for years as a youth I would go to the cupboard and open the jar of my dreams, toast two slices of potato bread, smear it with the Jiff or Skippy just so it had the chunky little morsels between the slices and top it off with a glass of ice cold milk. And in the morning before I went to school, I repeated this ritual.
And talk about epic, the first week after I broke up with my boyfriend I would sit in front of the tv, eating apple slices with peanut butter smeared all over them. I soon recovered quite nicely mind you.
If I were to come back in another life...lets say a bat, I could hang upside down from the ceiling and still hold my peanut butter jar and nothing would drip out unless I wanted to nibble at it. If I returned as a dog, I would and could hold a plastic jar of the peanut buter between my paws and lick the jar clean. But for now, I just prefer it on a spoon straight out of the jar.
Going to country school we carried our own lunches. We couldn't have anything warmed unless it was put on the floor heater vent to warm up for noon hour.
We would be so famished we would eat about anything. We didn't have lunchmeat as it was too expensive but we had the good standby call brunschwager. We toasted our slices of bread, put on a good amount of brunswager meat and topped it with grape jelly. It was that or more peanut butter. Wrapped in alumninum foil, on the floor vent, it was like heaven as we savored every moment,. When we got home mother always had bowl of soup to hold us till dinner which was usually some sort of macaroni creation.
My sister in law recently asked me about eatiing grape jellyl on this awful looking meat called brunswager and I laughed. Hard to believe that is still a treat for us after 40 some years, but she won't even look at it twice.
So for a recent party, I mixed brunswager and cream cheese and everyone raved about the appetizers...even the sister in law.
I live for squash and it doesn't matter what kind. In fact, my cats and dogs sit and salivate just to have some in their dish. I just started out adding acorn squash to soups and then the addiction started. You can fry, grill or bake and just add dips, sauce or whatever, it is an incredible vegetable. Most of the time people don't care for the way it is cooked and once they experience some new recipe, you would think I had won a cooking contest.
If it doesn't seem to be great the first time I fix it, I always try a second recipe. This is an inexpensive, easy to grow veggie that will amaze you with the variety of tastes. I always tell my friends, you won't want to try this, and then they clean out the serviing dish asking if there is anything else left not on the table. I would say read all you can and try it several ways before giving up on squash.
I only snack after I take my meds at night..my two am feeding is five mini choc chip cookies and milk. I really crave salted nuts and crackers at night prior to the 2am episode so I started eating oatmeal for supper and that has put a kabosh on the cookies.
Only problem is since I was a small child I would have a peanut butter sandwhich and glass of milk prior to bedtime and I swear that had alot to do with the munch monster that has become part of my nightly rituals.
Guess I can blame it all on my childhood--the snackage of course. LOL
I am on a squashfest. It has been stir fry almost every night and it is amazing!!!!
I have also been putting up alot of veggies for soups and making fall meals in advance. With a large amount of ripening pears, mixed them with cooked turkey and set up veggie add ons to the side in the freezers.. Easier to mix up alot of the creamy soups now and just add peppers or late garden items when the weather changes.
My neighbors trade many garden items and recipes to enjoy our best harvest in years. I have only about 5,000 more apples to pick before the first heavy frost and I am anxious to try alot of new apple recipes.
When I am at the computer working I have a incredible compulsion to drink sodas, so I was reading this unusual article about dealing with habits and they suggested eating oatmeal twice or three times a day..as the main meal. I tried this and wow...what a shock..I didn't have the compulsion of a sugar charge, or salt intake...makes a big difference and I also started drinking two glasses of water instead of one at a time..fills you up and knocks off the cravings.
With cancer patients who won't eat, they suggest they try chips or pickles or bacon..the salt makes you want to eat.
Best to you.
Could be several reasons why your chicken is dry...freezer burn perhaps? I now marinate almost everything I use in stir fry because it adds to the end product. Try french dressing for a unique taste.
Overcooking is another aspect to consider.
I am in the midst of zucchini wars...who can make the most fabulous recipe/food fare from ths green garden weapon. Any suggestions would be very appreciated. Have used in the traditional ways but looking for something more on the edge. Any and all suggestions welcome. Thanks!!!
Have a super crop of tomatoes and am searching for a new salsa recipe. Any suggestions?
If you could be known the world over for just one recipe, what would it be and why? If you would like to share that recipe, that would be just terrific. And if some of you can't decided on just one, you are welcome to add.
I am sure you have one.
I did it. It was 1979 and I was running behind that day. I was about to graduate from the University and worked three jobs. Time was precious and I wanted to impress my co-workers who had planned this really elaborate 'chocolate' party' and I was desiginated to bring 'the' most decantant dessert.
It was almost five and the dinner started at 6:30. Had time enough to shower and dress. I rushed home and was horrified to see my roomate and two friends just finishing off my chocolate masterpiece with a gallon of milk. Chocolate on their finger tips nearly put me in full cardiac arrest.
Not even thinking of confronting the chocolate looters, I drove wildly to the local bakery praying for something..anything..a crumb of a chocolate dessert. With tears rolling down my flushed cheeks, I told the owner of my dilema.
Much to my suprise, he pulled out this tray of elaborate triple fudge brownies. He said this would do the trick. I pulled out my checkbook, bought each and everyone on the spot.
Wasting no time, I ran to the nearby gift store, purchased a beautiful glass tray and in the front seat of my old truck, placed each and everyone in perfect alignment so no one would know I didn't make them myself.
I had no fear that the brownies would be a hit..they were gorgeous, delicous and just enough to calm the savage chocolate monster in all my friends.
Much to my surprise the many participants pulled out recipes to be shared with the group. I was getting dizzy, sweating and feeling like I was a marked student. I finally gave in and told them it was a prized recipe and I swore it would never be revealed. They applied pressure, and tho I became quite overcome with guilt, I couldn't speak.
Just this Christmas, over 30 years later, I received a holiday card from one of my friends requesting if I had the time, she would love to get a copy of that divine recipe from so many years ago. Oh what guilt can a little white lie cause 30 years later.
I mean really cook for them...yes, they get their daily catfood or dog food ration, but don't you ever dabble in the land of wagging tails where you just wanted to give them a special treat?
I have a cat who would kill for ramen noodles and I have a dog that dearly loves butternut squash cooked in chicken broth. They don't get it everyday, but only as a special treat.
So tell all, nothing can be denied. I want to know exactly what you prepare for them.
I am interested in getting some new cookbooks, and was interested what others would recommend? The cookbooks can be old standards, new editions or anything in-between. Please include, if you would, why you like those that you list. I always like to try new things, new techniques as well as expanding on the old. Thank you for your suggestions in advance.
Having a bunch of young people over during the holidays for a special suprise birthday party. They love BBQ. Do you know of a great BBQ chicken or turkey recipe? Grill is buried under a foot of snow, so I would love to use the oven. Thank you!
If I could find the one recipe you have been searching for, what recipe would that be and why?
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I have done this for 15 years as I have had ten or more children to feed at my house at once. Get the refrigerated biscuits or rolls , pop them open, butter or use a baking spray muffin pan, insert individual biscuits in each, have an array of toppings to let each person make their own...what is easier is to have teams to prep.
I use basically a tsp of tomato sauce, a few ground sausage or hamburger bits, shredded cheese, mushrooms, pineapples..whatever that fits their fancy, toss in over for about ten minutes and they are done with little mess or fuss. Elderly folk love these too as they are not messy and one or two will fill up a tummy quick. Now if you have a football team I would recommend a manufacturing line, but it is different and light and rave reviews. No real dishes or clean up. Best to you.