Cooking With Richard » birds

Guineafowl sandwich

rich — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:58:23 +0000

Guineafowl is pretty tasty.

Starlings can talk and sing!

rich — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:42:19 +0000

Singing …

Talking …

We’ve got two of them in the garden stealing food from the smaller birds.

I see you …

rich — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:11:26 +0000

Who’s poo?

rich — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:00:48 +0000

Ask N-sama …

Dacorum Steam Rally 2010

rich — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:40:54 +0000

We went to the Dacorum Steam Rally again on Sunday.

Previously …

魚拓鳥拓

rich — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:24:19 +0000

Click for bigger!

Look! It happened to someone else as well!

Sparrowhawks like tiny birds!

rich — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:35:41 +0000

Nom nom …

Previously …

Tiny birds like ujimushi!

rich — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:30:16 +0000

Previously and previously.

Bird hits window!

rich — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:05:56 +0000

It’s a baby blackbird, I think. He was a bit shaken up for a few minutes, but eventually flew away, so I think he’ll be OK.

Tiny birds like onigiri!

rich — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:00:57 +0000

I’m wondering if they will eat the umeboshi in the middle …

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Richard’s first chilli of the year test

rich — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:49:20 +0000

We are growing the cayenne variety of chilli peppers. Here is my scientific test of the first pepper from this season.

Cathay Pacific … what the f—?

rich — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:22:46 +0000

I simply don’t believe this Cathay Pacific advert …

But wait, there’s more. If you go to their website there’s this ridiculous flash “game” where you have to grab “girl cards” out of the air, and then there’s a mini-bio on each one. Meet for instance “Julia Chen”, flight attendant by day, but by night …

It’s like the 1950s and 60s all over again …

Clouds over Chip

rich — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:52:51 +0000

I think these photos show cirrus clouds being pulled along in a jet stream, a very unusual and beautiful cloud formation.

Helicopters

rich — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:56:40 +0000

versus

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Excuse me!

rich — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:00:06 +0000

This is my bathroom, not your house!

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Ballooning in Chip

rich — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:29:27 +0000

Sad kiji

rich — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:20:27 +0000

Kiji update

rich — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:46:09 +0000

Slightly better photos of the pigeon pie:

Kiji pie

rich — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:37 +0000

I made the pheasant pie again, much better this time. Unfortunately I didn’t take any good photos :-(

The pheasants were from Gibson’s in Watford market.

I found three shot while I was making it, and N-sama found another two:

Pheasant pie and tarte tatin

rich — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:01:03 +0000

A brace of pheasants in a pheasant pie:

Tarte tatin, named after a French hotel:

A very tasty Sunday dinner!

The recipe for pheasant pie is very easy, although somewhat time-consuming. It is adapted from this one. First I simmered the pheasants, onions, carrots (etc) in water and some white wine for a few hours:

Then I separated the meat into some pie dishes and covered it with streaky bacon:

I returned the bones to the stock and boiled it further, then removed all the bones and vegetables from the stock and boiled it hard to reduce the stock and intensify the flavour:

I also added sage, thyme and pepper at this point to get the seasoning right.

Finally pour a little of the stock over the meat (not too much — you can save any stock you don’t use), cover with puff pastry, and cook in the oven 200C for about 20 minutes.