Dan Dan Pheasant Noodles

My morning routine usually involves a hot cup of coffee and me trying to clear the sleep out of my eyes enough to be able to read the morning news. On one particular morning, I was drinking my coffee and scrolling through the news on my phone when I saw a recipe for Dan-Dan Noodles. I'm not really a big Asian food, but when I saw the picture I knew immediately that I wanted to make something similar to it. I spent the rest of my day trying to figure out how I could do this with the ingredients I had at home. This version isn't going to be authentic, I'm not using any pork or Sichuan peppers, but it still turned out pretty good.

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.