Food

Turkeys for the Table

This weekend I attended a poultry show and the usual question was asked if these turkeys are rare how can eating them be justified.  Well, turkeys were originally domesticated and reared for the table, and over the years various varieties with unique virtues have been develop within the domestic stock.  However, in recent years commercial turkeys have essentially replaced the original…

Christmas Dinner

We have just finished preparing a 15-month-old Norfolk Black stag for our dinner tomorrow. He had a good life free-ranging around the paddocks and hopefully took the opportunity to enjoy the varied diet.  He has a proportionate amount of fat in all the right places, a good meat-to-bone ratio, and certainly looks good in the roasting tin. It is always a…