Dan Dan Pheasant Noodles
I already had some ground pheasant in the freezer that I was looking for an excuse to use. If you don't have any, you can run some Pheasant Breast through a meat grinder, but doing so is going to add a considerable amount of cleanup time. A shortcut might be using ground chicken or turkey. I also had several containers of Pheasant stock prepared and stored in the freezer. Prepping for this meal basically meant letting these two ingredients defrost on the counter. If you don't have Pheasant stock prepared and don't want to spend hours making it, you can use something like a Pho Broth or Chicken Stock. Everything else I needed for the recipe, I pretty much already had on hand.
Not everything I try to make ends up on Gundog Central and there a few recipes I posted that I'd already like to modify and try again. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed every meal, I wouldn't have posted it otherwise, but I think I could improve a few of them a little more. I do have my favorites ... this recipe right here is one of them. We've actually made this three times since and there are never any leftovers.
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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