Dinner tonight

[Pastis]

Cottage pie, the last one for a while ... 

[Miss Demeanour]

Have you reached your cottage threshold 

[Snoopy]

Revolting ~that woman should never be allowed near a kitchen.
I normally eat anything put in front of me, it's the way I was brought up "waste not, want not" etc but even I threw it away. She was not pleased but there are limits.

We are not speaking it seems ~ not that I would have noticed if she hadn't told me ~ I gave up listening to her drivel years ago.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Pheasant casserole and mustard mashed potato.

You are a posh bird, I claim my five guineas....

Can do you four...




I used to have small flock of these, great fun to breed and rear and they taste great too.

[Barman]

Pheasant casserole and mustard mashed potato.

You are a posh bird, I claim my five guineas....

Can do you four...




I used to have small flock of these, great fun to breed and rear and they taste great too.

Did you borrow Miss D's axe...? 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

As I had a rather large flock of geese, over 70 chickens and a load of  ducks I treated myself to a humane dispatcher.   Miss D and I got know eachother quite well during that period.

[Miss Demeanour]

Sisters of Mercy 

[Snoopy]

Pick up bird, fold the wings against its body and tuck it under your arm. Take a firm grip of the neck, just behind the bird's head with your other hand ~ twist and pull in one short, sharp movement. Do not pull too hard or you will pull the head off and that can be messy.
Having broken the bird's neck, hang the corpse by the feet over a bucket and using a sharp knife cut its throat to drain all the blood out. Easy when you know how.
Humane dispatcher indeed

[Snoopy]

SWWLTBO has just made a cheese sandwich. It was not burnt, it was not swimming in over salted gravy, it was not under nor over cooked, it was recognizable as a cheese sandwich.
Hardly worthy of a Michelin Star but an improvement at least.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Yep used to do that with the Chickens Snoops, tried the old broom handle with the geese too it worked and was fine but when you are slaughtering twenty plus, plucking them in one afternoon whilst still warm speed is of the essence. The humane dispatcher worked for me.

[Pirate]

Snoopy used to be a pheasant plucker

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

But I was a pheasant pluckers son.

[Snoopy]

Snoopy used to be a pheasant plucker

Born in a farm cottage. We had hens. Learned to do it before I started school.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Used to snare rabbits when I lived in the middle of nowhere. Could prolly do it here but the 'do gooders' would revolt.

[Nick]

YOu could have made yerself a rabbit costume. To wear at weekends, like