A very wild dinner ( THE TIMES )

john scrivy

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Just brousing through the times page 38 Quite an interesting Dish of the day ---Macaroni with Door mouse and Thrush sauce Ingrediants : 1 edible door mouse -8 thrushes--1 kg skinned tomatoes--1 clove of garlic 1 onion--chopped parsely and basil--half glass of dry red wine salt and peper 1 red chilli peper-- macaroni. method -- kill and Skin doormouse and remove inards cut doormouse into pieces soak for an hour in half water and vinigar mix then rinse Kill clean and pluck the trushes soften the chopped onion and garlic in lard in a casserole dish add doormouse and thrushes and brown them add red wine when the wine evaparates remove the meat add tommatoes salt pepper parsely basil and not forgeting the red chilli pepper add lid and cook on a low heat for 20 mins return the meat and cook untill tender Boil pasta in salted water drain and searve ------------- This dish may require carefull fire managment if any one tries this in the woods I thought it was an ammuzing artical so I though i would shair with you"s
 
Sep 27, 2007
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Very different, but IMO slightly irresponsible as the Song and Mistle Thrush are not so common these days and I’m sure someone will have a go at it!

Kris
 

Shewie

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I don`t think I`ll be trying that one, I would much prefer to listen to the thrushes song than eat one.
Don`t even like macaroni cheese - had a bad experience at school once and deposited my macaroni lunch all over my blazer and shoes.
 

john scrivy

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Please every one this thread is not ment to offend I love wildlife and would not harm any animal The artical posted is for light hearted banter again I will say sorry if it offends Ihave only forwarded it on from an artical from the times that i found amusing I do not condon the killing of any animal for fun
 
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Please every one this thread is not ment to offend I love wildlife and would not harm any animal The artical posted is for light hearted banter again I will say if it offends Ihave only forwarded it on from an artical from the times that i found amusing I do not condon the killing of any animal for fun

None taken at all John. I don't have enough room for mice on my plate anyway, its currently full with hassle from a well known company on strike at the moment :(

Kris
 
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I know the French and Portugese hunt even the tiniest birds and suspect that the majority of European countries do the same.

Isn't it being anthropomorphic to feel differently towards a thrush than a pheasant for instance?

Just a thought :rolleyes:
 

dave k

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I know the French and Portugese hunt even the tiniest birds and suspect that the majority of European countries do the same.

Isn't it being anthropomorphic to feel differently towards a thrush than a pheasant for instance?

Just a thought :rolleyes:
Don't the french serve sparrow's? I saw it on a jeremy clarkson programme. You had to eat it whole whilst being under a blanket or something..

Nothing like the romans of course.

"Larks toungs, Badgers spleen's. Ocelot's eyeball's...."
splitters!!
:lmao:
 

Ben_Hillwalker

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Don't the french serve sparrow's? I saw it on a jeremy clarkson programme. You had to eat it whole whilst being under a blanket or something..
They eat Ortolan Buntings which are related to sparrows. I believe that they net them, fatten them up and then drown them in cognac before cooking them.

Well, if you had to pick a way to go...
 

woodstock

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woodstock

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Apr 7, 2007
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Don't the french serve sparrow's? I saw it on a jeremy clarkson programme. You had to eat it whole whilst being under a blanket or something..
They eat Ortolan Buntings which are related to sparrows. I believe that they net them, fatten them up and then drown them in cognac before cooking them.

the comment was from a Catherine Tate sketch and the word is actually in the english dictionary and if they do that then they are :nana:
 

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