Archive for January, 2008

Jan 31 2008

Pheasant Roast

Published by Padmaja under Winter Veg, Game Meat, Sunday Roast

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The other weekend, we have been to one of the famous farmers’ market in UK which is at Aldercarr farm. my favourite farm shop.

We were delighted to see so many farmers and small scale businesses promoting their produce grown locally. There were some amazing stalls with some incredible variety of things.

We were dearly impressed with the wide range of selection that’s available. Our main reason for the visit was Rocky, being a ardent fan of game meat wanted to try a different bird meat this time and so we were off there and we found a local game meat produce and picked up pheasant for Sunday roast.

Visited their farm-shop as well and bought some fresh veggies to go with my roast. As its a new territory for me, I was quite apprehensive first but to my utmost delight, I have discovered that the meat is simply divine.

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Recipe was picked from here but I adapted to my taste by changing few ingredients and according to our taste.

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1 pack of parma ham

thyme sprigs a bunch

1 pheasant, washed and cleaned

Olive oil for drizzling

half tub of ricotto cheese

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Heat oven to 220c.

Slice 2 layers of parma ham and chop finely, add ricotta cheese and few thyme leaves with sea salt. Put this stuffing into the bird and layer the remaining parma ham on the top and put few sprigs here n there and even stuff with bird as well.

Put the pheasants in a roasting tin, season with pepper and drizzle with oil.

Roast for around 30 min and turn the pheasant and another 30 minutes more, basting every now and then with the pan juices until the legs are no longer pink.

Serve with Winter Roast veggies which were perfect with the pheasant.

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Jan 28 2008

Drink up

Published by Padmaja under Click Event, Drinks

This lovely pinky drink is my latest find in the world of amazing non alcoholic drinks. It was a spur of moment thing when I wanted to make a simple sunday roast little interesting.

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I threw couple of things together and there comes my amazing drink.

Sparkling spring water: 500ml

Sicilian Lemons: 2(squeezed)

Pomegranate: 1

Ice cubes: few

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    (This picture is rushing off to the Click event) 

Mix sparkling water, lemon juice and ice cubes.

Cut the pomegranate, and seperate the arils from the pith and add them to the drink and leave them for atleast 1hr before you serve.

An absolute cool drink for kids. No artificial sweeteners or anything, the pom arils gives it a nice sweet taste.

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I am sending this to Bee and Jai’s Unmissable Click event and to Sra’s AFAM-Pomegranate as well.

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Jan 23 2008

Chicken Skewers

Published by Padmaja under Main Dishes, Rice, Chicken

Its end of december January ( I am too stressed to even get the month right!!ho ho) and I hardly blogged nor visited anyone’s blogs.  Dont know how time is flying? Thank god i didn’t make any new year resolutions of blogging more n all this year or else it would have been my first disappointment.

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