I ate a version of this pheasant supper recipe not long before Christmas last year, in what seemed like a brief outbreak of unlocked freedom. The venue was the Fox…
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Pot roasted duck with potatoes
I have a confession to make. This pot roast duck dish was cooked with the legs of a farmed duck. The plan was to use wild mallard legs, but moving…
Five recipes that use the whole of a pheasant
The principle of making the most of what you’ve got was never absent from our great-grandmothers’ kitchens. Yet today commercial poultry is rarely sold with the giblets, head or feet…
Enjoy the delicious, fresh flavours of this venison tataki recipe
Pheasant, partridge and wild duck are ideal meats for stir-fry and venison is a perfect alternative to beef or fresh tuna in this venison fillet recipe, tataki. Fillet is extravagant,…
How to bone a pheasant (and why you should)
I have avoided boning chickens or similar for years, thinking it was a fiddle. I was unable to decide if it was a distinct improvement, save for the fact that…
A recipe for Italian-style guinea fowl
This guinea fowl recipe originated from northern Italy. It is a sweet-sour concoction of sautéed chicken livers to serve with gamebirds, including guinea fowl. I found the guinea fowl recipe…
Roasted partridge with moutabal, watercress and white cabbage salad
Partridges can present an especially awkward grapple. So seam the breast meat off the ‘crown’ of this roast partridge recipe and joint the legs so they can be picked up.…
Wild boar and venison koftas
I’d only been working for the Daily Express for a month back in 1998 when an editor called asking me to go on a wild boar hunt. Not a shoot,…
Braised lentils with duck and venison
My mother was a cook ahead of her time. I must have been a teenager, some 40 years ago, when she made a dish of French Puy lentils for lunch.…
Venison Khingal
It is easy to believe that pasta belongs to Italy, but versions of it are found all over Europe and Asia. In the south of France, nouilles are eaten with…
Pheasant Maryland – a dish that children will love
My mother’s most-used everyday cookbook in the 1970s was an edition of The Constance Spry Cookery Book that she must have been given after her wedding in the late 1950s.…
A recipe for venison biryani to make in a slow cooker
I once toured the basmati fields of Haryana Province, north of Delhi. Basmati is, to me, the world’s finest rice, with a long needle-like shape and heavenly fragrance. In India,…
A recipe for pheasant stock
In my kitchen, making stock from leftover bones or carcases is part of an economic plan. It is a simple process that extracts a greater value from the bones of…
Grilled venison on skewers – a healthy and light recipe
I have recently discovered a new ingredient, pul biber, which has the perfect balance of chilli and spice. Originating in Turkey, along with the kebab, it has a fruity, rich…
Pheasant braised with apples and Somerset cider
It would be dishonest not to admit that pheasants are the least easy game meat to slow-cook. I have chewed my way through plenty of dried-out meat in the past,…
A game terrine to make for Christmas
Having spent many years in the Christmas kitchen, I like to have to hand what I call festive picnic foods. As far as I’m concerned once the big roast has…
Recipe for venison chilli con carne
Recipe for venison chilli con carne Ingredients 4 tbsp duck fat or beef dripping 2 onions, thinly sliced 6 cloves of garlic, chopped 1kg venison mince 1 tbsp concentrated tomato…
Partridge in a parcel
Cooking little partridges individually in parchment parcels results in beautifully tender meat with a gorgeous golden finish. With less air around it and a little bit of fat, at a…
Pheasant tagine with lemon couscous
Cooking pheasant It is essential to remember that pheasant needs a different approach to chicken if used as a substitute. Pheasant, on or off the bone, dries out swiftly even…