The River Cottage Meat Book

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Anyone got this book? Does it cover how to prepare whole rabbits and pheasants and the like?

I only started eating meat a few months ago so haven't got a clue what I'm doing with pretty much anything past steaks and mince. Is this a decent book to teach me the theory of meat preperation and cooking?

Thanks,

Mark

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It sounds like a good book from the description but I was specifically interested in whether it would teach me how to prepare a rabbit or pheasant that I'd shot.

Cheers,

Mark

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Lord Benjo said:

Yes, Yes and Yes.

Great book and comprehensively covers all of the meat you are ever likely to eat.

Cool. Thanks.

[dern]

Cheers all. I was a vegetarian for about ten years from the age of 18 and a pescatarian (just learned that word) for the next ten years and didn't want to just start eating the shite I see in the supermarkets. We seem to have plenty of farm shops near us so time to get stuck in. Started eating meat about 3 months ago and it's all good.

Regards,

Mark

Edited by dern on Thursday 27th September 12:57

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Exactly the sort of stuff I wanted to hear... thanks all.

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As an aside... can I legally shoot wood pigeons walking around my garden with an air rifle?

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KingRichard said:

dern said:

As an aside... can I legally shoot wood pigeons walking around my garden with an air rifle?

I think it depends on how big your garden is, and how powerful the air rifle is...

I'd probably suggest you didn't do it in full view of the street or neighbouring gardens.

We target shoot in the garden quite a bit and the rifle is legal. I wouldn't shoot them out of the trees as you wouldn't know where the pellet would go but the pigeons can often be found walking across the grass.

KingRichard said:

It's never fun to be arrested by an Armed Response Unit.

Yes it has happened to me.

Lol, how did you manage that?

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KingRichard said:

Long story. Got reported to BiB for pointing a 'firearm' at a cashier in a petrol station. Trouble was, it was a four foot long supersoaker, that made the old trout VERY wet. If only she'd been more obliging to our request for flapjacks through the night window, she could have avoided a police caution for wasting police time.

Served her right.

I still got pinned to the floor outside my house at 4am amidst blue flashing lights, megaphones and sniffer dogs.

I'd just got a job working for a credit hire company, and happened to have had several new cars on the drive at very odd hours of the day. A Range Rover Vogue, 2 E Class mercs and several Jags. God know what the neighbours thought I was into...

Good one .