I have 2 wood pigeons in my freezer and I intend on eating them tomorrow, does anyone know what to do with them? :D :D :D
Thanks  

cook them!!!! :P

I'm afraid I just take the breasts of my pigeons but that is only because we know a Harris Hawk that eats the rest!  Don't bother with plucking, just make a nick under the skin on the breast and strip off the skin and feather together.  I use the breasts in game pie along with rabbit, pheasant, etc.  (not that I am sure what the etc stands for!! chicken perhaps!!)

Not much help really .... sorry!

I've got a pigeon in the freezer that I'm going to do a game pie with.  Have also got rabbit and pheasant which will go into it.  I would just get the breast meat out as well, as someone has already suggested.  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has some good game recipes.

Helen

Oh, now I need to find somone who can give me a few rabbits, pigeons etc.
My ex husband used to shoot rabbits. Guess who got the job of skinning and gutting them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I dont get any :(
(only good thing about being married to him PML)
Lea :)

:D :D I think I'll have to invest in a shotgun and a lab :) , the local butcher sells rabbit but its really expensive :(.  Can you roast them in the oven like normal chicken?   They do look rather small, I recon they would only need half an hour.  I have some ostrich sausages in reserve :D  I think Hugh Fernly-bloke is really cool, my dream is to have a small holding like that I will check out some of his recipes.

Storm. Do you think a nearly 7yo Rottie and a 2 1/2yo Am cocker could be trained as gun dogs :D
Oh blast, think they will eat the birds before I even get to them
Plan foiled!!!!!!!!!!!
Lea :)

awww rotties are too soft for all that kind of thing :) the cocker sneak off for a secret snack  :D :D :D non of my motley crew would even know what to do :) , my greyhound would probably have caught it, killed it and eaten before I'd even loaded the cartridge actually probably i'd even spotted it :D 
Ahh well as they say theres always hope :D :D
Clair

As has been mentioned before, there was a brilliant article in the shooting times the other week about a guy who has been on our shoot a couple of times this year with a Rottie called Gus.  A rescued one at that!

I've never tried to roast a rabbit, I alway chop 'em up and put them in the pot!  My children call me the Bunny Boiler!!  (Not that the youngest has seen the film!)

OH i thought this was going to be a nice wood pigeon story.Dont you know i feed these birds everyday ,and it sounds like most off them have ended up in your freezers awaiting a river cottage makeover.Im off to idle chat  (smile).

I always feel it would be nice to see the poodles out there doing what they were originally bred for :D

Jesse

In my impoverished single days I would cook them in my 'chicken brick' (earthenware casserole, terribly fashionable in the 70s - I still have it). If you haven't anything like that, then regular roasting should do, but be careful they don't dry out. Then for the next day I would boil the carcase in water with chopped onions and a little stock, and have the most wonderful soup ...
:)

Try this recipe I did and it was rather good, I only used two pigeons instead of 3 but I added 2 chicken breasts instead.

http://basg.info/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=154

Thanks for that Robert that sounds yummy, might have to try that one out.  Maybe there is hope for one of my lot yet!!  although ive got a pharaoh aka Rabbit dog it should be known as dog that chases and throws radom items in the air with gay abandon :D :D :D