Wood Pidgeon

Hi Shafika and welcome to GoY - well done on sorting out the pigeons... If you can pan fry the breasts then you can certainly casserole them too. Roasting will only work if you wrap the bird in bacon. I'd suggest you just remove and use the breasts and cook up the rest of the bird for soup stock.

yes casserole the brest, but try to do them in cider,realy nice.

or with red wine and chocolate... mummmmmmm

or get a slow cooker like 24 hours and mix it with some other meats finly chopped and you can use the carcus excuse my spelling for the stock.so it will be like a pidgeon big soup

There is a website:-
www.newhousefarm.tv/
which would be more appropriate for this kind of question. Go to their forum page. No question about controlling garden pests being a gardening subject, but not so sure about how to cook them! LOL

Oh Sid I think cooking is all part of gardening and growing... why would we grow veg. if not to eat?

is gardening about the whole of nature i for one enjoy the beez the spiders and snails etc they all have there place . i dont just do it for the plants , flowers etc

Yup we have questions about preserving apples and the like why not cooking pigeons... I'm all for 'free' food!

I was really interested in the question feeding ourselves is all part of gardening.
Soy and chilli stir-fried pigeon on red cabbage.
Vinegar-glazed pigeon breast on crisp potato cake with peas and spring onions.
Wood pigeon breasts and slow-cooked legs with celeriac and salted hazelnuts.
Tomato bruschetta with pigeon and bacon.
Braised Iranian style pigeon with rhubarb.
These are from saturday Kitchen on BBC there are lots more - seems its very popular. Enjoy.

i hate waste after all theres only to many pigeons because theres to many people

STOP IT'' our you will have me out shooting them agine, and rabbits, somthing I gave up , I now have woodes coming in to the garden and I feed them,they only have cat's to worrie about . and I have distroyed the places that the cats hide to give the birds a chanch,

Oh dear Cliffo... I suspect if the pigeons get into our new veggie garden that they will be in the cooking pot in no time flat.

I realy dont think they do too mutch damage in our gardens, but in a hard winter the contenental birds come over from france and they are like locus, I have shot them up to two pounds, you canot merstake them they have a down curved beek,a bit like a parret,when they have been on the kayle their flesh is green but they taste lovly, and you can use more than just the brest.bon apperteat

Oh don't get me wrong Moon grower! I would rather people ate pigeon - being good freerange stuff - than meat originating from those horrid factory farms. I was just saying that website I gave would be a better place to ask that question as they have forums on 'wild' food, how to cook it and no doubt a lot more info. It's a good site.

Sorry Sid thought you were saying it was wrong for GoY. I much prefer wild or free food though we are lucky up here we an get good organically grown lamb, pork and chicken and beef that has never seen the inside of a byre fed on grass and neeps and kept outside all year round.

for lamb Wales' for beef aberdeen angus, but welsh blacks have a lot going for them, but wild game, never mind the hanging for ten days get them in the oven while they are still warm' save yourself a few borbies on the gas LOL MG'

Well I am a bit ;-)

Ah no Cliffo our Scottish hill lamb melts in your mouth. I've now found a source of organic mutton too...

I am not disputing that your lamb is good, but Welsh lamb is renound through out the culenarre world ,even more than aberdeen angus,

I don't eat Aberdeen Angus the local farmer rears longhorns

O grate' more gorges beef for me, the only meet you can get drippen from,and so tender the only problem with it is it tends to be rather moreish.

Yup very...