Tag: pheasant leg

Pheasant Confit

Cooking, Fall, Food, Spring, Upland Game Birds, WinterMarch 26, 20141KViews 0Likes 13Comments

To "confit" something, is to cure it in salt and then cook it slowly in fat. It makes the meat buttery and fall off the bone. Is there anything that sounds more glorious than that?It is common to see it done with duck legs, and other muscular cuts of meat, but here I've done it…

Braised Pheasant Legs with Cabbage and Grapes

Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Main Courses, Upland Game Birds, Wild Game, WinterNovember 17, 2010314Views 0Likes 3Comments

Standing in the fields at Joshua Creek was a special kind of experience. There is a mystical quality in the rooster pheasant as he shoots into the air like a feathered arrow, in all his green and red and purple, and speckled brown-black. The long spike of his tail feathers taper for aerodynamic flight and…