Meat handling while traveling

[cheesy]

If you don't mind a wine sauce braised pheasant legs/thighs are quite good. I believe this is the recipe I tried although I didn't copy it word for word. Some tasting and adjusting goes a ways towards making it suit your taste. I believe I added a corn starch slurry to thicken it for gravy at the end.

Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms

A recipe for braised pheasant with mushrooms and herbs. This recipe uses pheasant thighs, but wild turkey thighs work well, too.

honest-food.net

Better if you can pull the tendons out when you take the lower leg off, although that method is hit and miss for me. Some forceps and a couple minutes after cooking gets them anyway as the meat pulls back with the slow cooking process.

It's not a hard recipe to prepare, and the little extra work in picking the meat off the remaining tendons is worth it for the flavor IMO.

Thanks. I love Hank Shaws recipes. He talks like a common person and is easy to follow. Have bought a few of his cookbooks.

 

[HS Strut]

If you don't mind a wine sauce braised pheasant legs/thighs are quite good. I believe this is the recipe I tried although I didn't copy it word for word. Some tasting and adjusting goes a ways towards making it suit your taste. I believe I added a corn starch slurry to thicken it for gravy at the end.

Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms

A recipe for braised pheasant with mushrooms and herbs. This recipe uses pheasant thighs, but wild turkey thighs work well, too.

honest-food.net

Better if you can pull the tendons out when you take the lower leg off, although that method is hit and miss for me. Some forceps and a couple minutes after cooking gets them anyway as the meat pulls back with the slow cooking process.

It's not a hard recipe to prepare, and the little extra work in picking the meat off the remaining tendons is worth it for the flavor IMO.

Braised? Slurry? I Love It! Someone who knows how to cook! Poppers is code word for I don’t know how to cook hahaha. I tell my hunting buddies you can do most anything with pheasants that you can do with chicken. Nobody makes chicken poppers

 

[HS Strut]

Thanks. I love Hank Shaws recipes. He talks like a common person and is easy to follow. Have bought a few of his cookbooks.

I love his books as well. I’ve bought a couple and given them to my buddies. Now they actually eat their wild game

 

[carptom1]

Braised? Slurry? I Love It! Someone who knows how to cook! Poppers is code word for I don’t know how to cook hahaha. I tell my hunting buddies you can do most anything with pheasants that you can do with chicken. Nobody makes chicken poppers

I dunno if made correctly pheasant poppers are a big hit.

I love pounding the breast out and stuffing them with whatever you like then roll them up and smoke at low heat for a few hours. Apple chunks, cream cheese and diced onions and jalapeño is pretty good.

Crockpot with brown gravy with biscuits on top is another favorite

 

[Goosemaster]

I'll clean critters all night long for a group, as long as someone keeps cracking beers for me!

I would give you one beer for 2 hours of work.

 

[Goosemaster]

The main thing birds and geese, is to keep them cold at all times and get them on ice and keep them on ice until you get them in the refrigerator or the freezer.