Cast Iron Quail with Apple Dressing and Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
I don't consider myself someone who watches a lot of TV, but for this show ... I would setup a projector in the backyard and watch it on the back of the house on a huge 20 foot by 30-foot screen, it was like being at the movie theater. I would have a few friends over and I'd prepare these huge Medieval style feast to eat during the show to really get into the atmosphere. I was brewing my own beer at the time and had kegs of beer in the garage to enjoy with our meal, which we would drink out of huge wooden flagons. While some the meals ended up being several courses, often times comprised of meats like Elk, Buffalo, Lamb, Beef, Hog, Rabbit, Quail, Chicken, Duck, Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp, Salmon and Trout, the first few meals were fairly small in comparison. One of the very first meals was a few Cornish Game Hens stuffed with Apples and Cranberries then cooked in a cast iron skillet with new potatoes. This dish is a nod to that very first themed meal. That meal is really what got me started cooking more and more. I'm not a chef, it's just something I enjoy doing. All the recipes I post on the site are just how I did it, the methods I use may not be "by the book" or the traditional way of doing things, but each meal is a lesson.
My wife and I will sometimes do other theme meals now and again for other TV Shows, like Shark Week! Or Lord of the Rings. One year for the NFL playoffs, we created meals from each city that made the playoffs to eat during the games. On days were there were two games, we'd combine the cities meals together, kind of a fusion dish, other times we'd cook one games meal for breakfast and the other games meal for dinner.
About the Author : Jeff Davis
Visit authors website | View more articlesYou may think cooking and recipes don’t have much to do with a website dedicated to hunting dogs ... but really, why do we hunt? Sure, we enjoy watching our dogs work in the field and being outdoors, but ultimately, hunting is about survival and feeding our families. We might as well try to do it well. I'm not a chef and definitely no food authority ... but I do like to eat and enjoy cooking. After searching for people willing to share their recipes on Gundog Central, without much success, I decided to try to do a few on my own, with my wife Tami's help. The recipes I share here are things I like to eat and have made here at home. I've tried to include step-by-step instructions with each meal describing exactly how I did it, but my method may not be best, if you decide to try a recipe posted here, please use whatever technique you think works best, I'm simply sharing how I did it. You'll see a lot of recipes where I've tried to make things from starch, when I could have just used store bought ingredients, simply because I wanted to learn how something was done. My goal is to continually update these recipes as I learn new things and techniques. These are my attempts at creating good, home cooked food, that I would like to eat! If I'm sharing it here, my family and I enjoyed it and I believe you will too.
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