Pheasant Recipies

[jxncoog]

My co-worker brought back some pheasants from is SD hunting trip. I need recipies for tomorrow's dinner...Tonight we are having fresh caught Salmon from my FIL's fishing trip.

[cowboy]

I like to bread them and fry them. The breast is about the only thing worth eating, so I'll just skin them and take the breasts. I don't have exact measurements, but here are the ingredients I use for my homeade shake&bake.

Crushed Corn Flakes (Corn meal can be substituted)
Flour
Lemon Pepper
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper

I usually just add the different ingredients until it tastes good. The corn flakes and flour are usually around 60-40 to the corn flake side for a ratio.

[il Padrino Ute]

I like to bread them and fry them. The breast is about the only thing worth eating, so I'll just skin them and take the breasts. I don't have exact measurements, but here are the ingredients I use for my homeade shake&bake.

Crushed Corn Flakes (Corn meal can be substituted)
Flour
Lemon Pepper
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper

I usually just add the different ingredients until it tastes good. The corn flakes and flour are usually around 60-40 to the corn flake side for a ratio.

I agree about the breast being the only thing worth eating. That recipe looks good. I'll have to give it a try.

Anyone ever eaten chukar? How about quail?

[FN Phat]

I agree about the breast being the only thing worth eating. That recipe looks good. I'll have to give it a try.

Anyone ever eaten chukar? How about quail?

My dad makes an outstanding Quail Marsala. Delish. I will try to get the recipe from him. I am assuming that it would be great with pheasant as well. I grew up eating upland game birds.

[I.J. Reilly]

I agree about the breast being the only thing worth eating. That recipe looks good. I'll have to give it a try.

Anyone ever eaten chukar? How about quail?

Quail is great. Never had chukar. I have had squab. Don't let them fool you, squab is just a fancy name for pigeon. It was alright, but I probably won't be eating it again any time soon. It's pretty nutty and greasy, not unlike squirrel meat.

[creekster]

Quail is great. Never had chukar. I have had squab. Don't let them fool you, squab is just a fancy name for pigeon. It was alright, but I probably won't be eating it again any time soon. It's pretty nutty and greasy, not unlike squirrel meat.

You eat squirrel? With or without tire tracks?

[FN Phat]

Quail is great. Never had chukar. I have had squab. Don't let them fool you, squab is just a fancy name for pigeon. It was alright, but I probably won't be eating it again any time soon. It's pretty nutty and greasy, not unlike squirrel meat.

Perfect discription of squirrel

[I.J. Reilly]

You eat squirrel? With or without tire tracks?

I prefer mine without the tracks.

Squirrel was one of the particular delights that we had while earning a wilderness survival merit badge. The other was rabbit. The rabbit was actually pretty good after we got over the trauma of popping the head off and skinning the thing with our bare hands while the other rabbits cried.

Dinner time!

[creekster]

I prefer mine without the tracks.

Squirrel was one of the particular delights that we had while earning a wilderness survival merit badge. The other was rabbit. The rabbit was actually pretty good after we got over the trauma of popping the head off and skinning the thing with our bare hands while the other rabbits cried.

Dinner time!

THey cried? how many rabbits did you torture? why didnt you just break their necks too?

[I.J. Reilly]

THey cried? how many rabbits did you torture? why didnt you just break their necks too?

There were probably about 7-8 of us there to complete that particular requirement. Being the true wilderness survivalists that we were, the scoutmaster brought all of them in a cage together for us. We had to put the rabbits down, put a stick behind their necks, stand on the stick and then pull the back legs out. The other rabbits were very saddened by this development. When the head had been dislocated from the spine, there was a soft spot on the neck where we could pull to detach the skin from the meat of the body. We then drained them and disemboweled them before sticking them on a spit and roasting them over a fire.

Very traumatic for someone who doesn't generally kill ants or spiders he finds inside the house.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Damn, I thought this thread was about peasant recipes.

[creekster]

There were probably about 7-8 of us there to complete that particular requirement. Being the true wilderness survivalists that we were, the scoutmaster brought all of them in a cage together for us. We had to put the rabbits down, put a stick behind their necks, stand on the stick and then pull the back legs out. The other rabbits were very saddened by this development. When the head had been dislocated from the spine, there was a soft spot on the neck where we could pull to detach the skin from the meat of the body. We then drained them and disemboweled them before sticking them on a spit and roasting them over a fire.

Very traumatic for someone who doesn't generally kill ants or spiders he finds inside the house.

It's like my grandma used to tell me when I would turn up my nose at some new variety of depression era gruel (usually heavy in roots) that she would make for dinner: "When you're hungry enough, you'll eat it."