Saturday 2.

 

Above photo is of our slow cooker with a casserole consisting of two and a half brace of pheasant, shallotts, cranberries, a few blueberries, etc., etc. Ann was given the recipe by our friend Simon Cook, who is a professional caterer, and very good it was, too. We were given three brace of pheasants just after Christmas, and after they'd been hung a few days (it was cold weather then), we roasted one of them, and put the rest in the freezer. Birds shot that late in the season tend, in my experience, to be tough, and are best casseroled. We followed this with an orange and rhubarb crumble with custard and/or cream, offered a fresh fruit salad (no takers, even by the Dean, who is a hearty trencherman), and a very good cheese board, and coffee/tea. I forgot to say that we started the meal with a pork and apricot pate with a little salad. Owing to a slight tendency to gout I have to be careful with pate, so Ann enforces a very limited intake of the stuff. Still no problems so far. Being called up for coffee, so will probably post again later. Cheeriho for now.