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     Angie OneOfThem Username: Angie Post Number: 1878 Registered: 08-2003  |
http://recycledlifestyle.wordpress.com/ You should just hear DH and the boys - they've actually gone without tea tonight! So do you think I've gone too far this time? Looking forward to a handmade, homegrown, treadledriven, pedalpowered future! | ||
| Saffy Official Chatterbox Username: Saffy Post Number: 4638 Registered: 11-2003  |
I doubt I would've eaten it, but I don't see any reason why you shouldn't if you are happy to. | ||
| Bunnyb Official Chatterbox Username: Bunnyb Post Number: 9665 Registered: 03-2006  |
No, I can't say I'd have been brave as you and your girls at the prepping of him, but think your justification makes perfect sense. A friend who lives out in a village, was once on a bus and the driver stopped it and picked up a pheasant that the preceding traffic had hit, he gave it to her insisting there was a good meal on it. I only know about this becuase, when I went to her house she apologised for the smell coming from her wheely bin as she never summoned up the guts to deal with the guts IYKWIM. You've kept that blog very quiet though. (I have a BBQ very similar to your one, but it has lost it's feet somewhere). The properties of Wheatabix as an aggregate have not yet been fully exploited by the UK construction industry. | ||
| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6159 Registered: 11-2005  |
My parents live in an area well populated with deer, and a sudden curve in the highway is right in front of their house. As you can imagine, many of Bambi's cousins have met an untimely demise there. Well, one day, they were out in the drive, heard the whoosh of a truck going by, and a thud and a doe with a broken neck landed at the end of the drive. Mom and dad looked at each other, at the deer, at each other again. Walked to the road, dragged it into the garage after carefully checking no one was looking (because you have to have a permit to have a dead deer, whether you killed it or not, and it would have decomposed by the time they got one). Cut up, she was delicious and made many wonderful meals! | ||
| Jayne Official Chatterbox Username: Jayne Post Number: 1864 Registered: 11-2006  |
your good angie and phesent is so nice!! | ||
| Carrie_h Official Chatterbox Username: Carrie_h Post Number: 3070 Registered: 11-2003 |
Well I would have come to tea....a friend of mine was always saying 'dinner' whenever I drove past dead pheasant on the way to visit my dad - trouble was, she always spotted them when I was more than halfway past and on the way home it was always dark....I like pheasant, and you dont need much meat either. http://www.flickr.com/photos/73521675@N00/ and http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=76896537 | ||
| Twix Official Chatterbox Username: Twix Post Number: 1510 Registered: 04-2006  |
I don't see why not. I can't believe that people throw away le cruset saucepans!!! (further down) and we have one of those cast iron bbqs and its great. | ||
| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6160 Registered: 11-2005 |
Oh My God Angie, I am SO jealous of your Dutch oven! Yes, it IS the geniune article, that one! The top is probably flat, with a rim, correct? That can be used for all sorts of things-you can make hotcakes on it, you can make what we in the US call biscuits (kind of like scones), johnny cakes, etc. It's another cooking surface, really. They were used on cattle drives all across the Midwest, you cook beans or stew in the bottom and biscuits or cornbread on the top. I've been wanting one for ages, that's a real treasure you've got there! Oh, and you can put coals on that top flat surface and cook cobblers in it, they brown up nicely. (Message edited by schmoo on February 25, 2009) | ||
| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6161 Registered: 11-2005 |
I agree with Twix-I nearly fainted when I read that you found an entire set of Le Creuset pans IN THE GARBAGE! WHO does that? I use my stuff forever-I found out the pans I currently have belonged to my husbands great grandmother. A handle broke a couple of weeks ago, DH fixed it with epoxy. That's the extent of the trouble I've had with it, other than having to tighten the screws a few times on the handles. | ||
| Karen OneOfThem Username: Karen Post Number: 8270 Registered: 10-2003  |
I parted with my le Creuset pans to the charity shop, reluctantly, but I had too. I was struggling to lift them empty, never mind full. Muscle and joint painds make cast iron a no no! I still have some lovely thinck enamelled pans, don't know what metal that I have had over 20 years (bought in Poundstretcher), which I love because they are not so heavy and a set of decent aluminium which I have had about 15 years (bought in Asda's sale). I have a very expensive top of the range stainless steel pan with a copper bottom which my mil gave me years ago which isn't a patch on the others and burns really easily. Karen  
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| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6162 Registered: 11-2005 |
My cookware is aluminum too Karen-it was good quality in the first place(Farberware, don't know if you've heard of it)so it's held up well. It's all I've ever used since I met DH and he dragged it down from the box in his attic his mom had sent it in. | ||
| Kanda Official Chatterbox Username: Kanda Post Number: 2657 Registered: 04-2007  |
Angie - I would have happily eaten the pheasant and I'm fairly sure all my brood would have too. We often see roadkill but usually on a dangerous bend, or the crows have already been at it. I hit a pheasant once, but I'm all too aware of the law that says you can't stop to pick up what you've killed, so I sadly drove on. Must go and read the rest of your blog now. Well I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it. | ||
| Sarah Official Chatterbox Username: Sarah Post Number: 2741 Registered: 07-2006  |
Sounds yummy!  | ||
| Stormyraincloud Official Chatterbox Username: Stormyraincloud Post Number: 4955 Registered: 08-2004  |
I'm very surprised that your boys couldn't 'pluck' up the courage to eat it (sorry lol) Actually, knowing boys I'm really surprised that they have been such ridiculous wimps about it. There is no way I could have prepared it, as I am so squeamish, despite doing it with all the birds when I lived on the farm, but I would have happily come for tea to eat what the little girls wouldn't eat lol Good on you Angie, you are amazing!  Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. | ||
| Sarahjmcc Official Chatterbox Username: Sarahjmcc Post Number: 2756 Registered: 03-2007  |
Sorry I'm with your boys, however, I wouldn't eat it in a 5 star hotel either!! Sx Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.  | ||
| Angie OneOfThem Username: Angie Post Number: 1880 Registered: 08-2003 |
Lol! Sarah, the boys wouldn't eat in a 5-star hotel either - they've worked in hotel & restaurant kitchens... But what's worrying me is that it isn't squeamishness, as both of the two older boys have helped me despatch spare cockerels before and one's off to join the Marines any day. It's snobbery, pure & simple... They'd have eaten it if it had been shot & bought at our rather expensive game butchers, then prepared by a professional chef. Schmoo, yes, the Dutch Oven does have the flat lid with the rim, and I've been trying out all sorts of recipes for it - it's fantastic! But my pagan neighbour's very funny about it; as far as she's concerned it's a proper cauldron, and it's in the wrong hands here! The lads at the Tip also saved 3 tiny Lodge skillets for me, probably from the same household, though at a different time; the same thing had happened to them and they were full of burnt-on, rusty shellac. They're exactly the right size for a snack omelette or two eggs and one small rasher of bacon... Looking forward to a handmade, homegrown, treadledriven, pedalpowered future! | ||
| Daisy Official Chatterbox Username: Daisy Post Number: 2790 Registered: 12-2005  |
I think it was fine Angie. Do you have a copy of the Roadkill cookbook? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Roadkill-Cookbook-B-R-Peterson/dp/0898152003/re f=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235643044&sr=8-1 | ||
| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6163 Registered: 11-2005 |
My mom went to the Lodge factory a few weeks ago when she was in Tennessee and picked me up a bacon press while she was there-I'm so excited! One of these days I am going to get to that store, hopefully with money to spend! You should check out their website, it's got some neat stuff and I think it has recipes as well. | ||
| Einarsvei Official Chatterbox Username: Einarsvei Post Number: 1344 Registered: 07-2008  |
Sounds delicious. I'm with you Angie. In fact, I think the circumstances of its consumption add value to its little life - much better than being beheaded by a butcher and frozen.  | ||
| Samk Eloquent Persuader Username: Samk Post Number: 92 Registered: 07-2007 |
Well done! We often talk about doing it when we see dead bunnies or game birds but haven't yet. Glad it tasted so good. I've told dh that he'd have to dress it though; could be a potential anatomy lesson for the kids! | ||
| Rach Official Chatterbox Username: Rach Post Number: 2688 Registered: 12-2004  |
Sounds good to me Angie, well done you, and well done to your girls for being there for the nasty bits. This is true respect for the animal I think, as every bit of him is being used in one way or another. I think it's brilliant. Go to www.city-book.co.uk/ezgrub and add your favourite recipes and perhaps find new ones!!! | ||
| Jayne Official Chatterbox Username: Jayne Post Number: 1868 Registered: 11-2006 |
i saw a dead pheasent at the side of the road today and thought of you lol | ||
| Angela Official Chatterbox Username: Angela Post Number: 1676 Registered: 08-2003 |
My dad killed a rabbit the other day but didn't think he could eat it because of myxomatosis is that right? | ||
| Angie OneOfThem Username: Angie Post Number: 1882 Registered: 08-2003 |
I wouldn't eat anything I thought had died of an illness, Angela. I don't know whether myxy is communicable to us but I wouldn't risk it, especially as we have two much-loved pet rabbits and all it takes is one infected mosquito. And I'd hesitate over a roadkilled one too, if I thought it had been hit during the day, as myxy makes them blind and disorientated; normally they'd stay well away from roads during the day. At dusk & dawn, however, healthy rabbits are all over the road verges round here; it's just about the only pastureland left to them now. Cock pheasants, however, in their tiny little heroic minds, are trying to lure your predatory car away from their hens sitting on the nest; the only problem is that they sometimes can't outrun/outfly a ton of hurtling metal, but it's entirely natural & characteristic for them to try at any time in daylight hours. Just not a particularly good survival mechanism... (Message edited by Angie on February 27, 2009) Looking forward to a handmade, homegrown, treadledriven, pedalpowered future! | ||
| Sammie Official Chatterbox Username: Sammie Post Number: 633 Registered: 02-2004  |
How come i misssed the best meal???? sob sniff If at first you dont suceed, cheat! xx | ||
| Schmoo Official Chatterbox Username: Schmoo Post Number: 6177 Registered: 11-2005 |
Well that explains the pheasant that seemed determined to die the day it destroyed the grille of my cute little Skoda estate...damn bird crossed the road, in flight, 3 times just so he could fly headfirst into my grille. | ||
| Heleng Official Chatterbox Username: Heleng Post Number: 2915 Registered: 08-2003 |
I'm sure DH and I would have eaten it and possibly my eldest DD. Not so sure about the others. I probably wouldn't have told them until after they'd enjoyed it! |
