Dinner thread?

[Moa Hunter]

We had a fella come speak at our nzda a while back. He was from the restaurant cazador. Which is Spanish for hunter.

He reckoned the trick to cooking game birds was to eat it blue or at the every least very rare.

His experience with cooking it low and slow resulted with a tough bird.

Just what he reckoned to try.

He may be right with some upland birds but not water fowl. In my experience the best results are from brining the bird overnight, rinse, dry, then brown with clarified butter ( or 50 / 50 butter / oil ) in a frying pan to get really good colour, next put the bird(s) in an oven bag with an apple in their tummy and cook at 140 -160 depending on your oven. With the oven bag tied but not totally sealed there will be positive pressure inside the bag which keeps the moisture in the victim.