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At the moment here in the UK the viz is like gravy and the sea is cold with as many fish in it as I’ve got left in my freezer (that’ll be none then).
So with this in mind and the need for non-reared food it’s out with the gun and away to the woods.

Wood Pigeon Stew

You’ll need
One 12-gauge shotgun, bag of cartridge’s, a friendly gamekeeper with access to the wood and a dog (to save you running around like one).

Take the breast meat from 6 of your pigeon’s and peel of the skin then in a hot frying pan brown the meat once done put to one side.
Take a large onion and some garlic slice it up then in the same pan as you browned your pigeon fry the onion and garlic until it just starts to color remove and put with the meat.
In the main pot put your root vegetables and a really good chicken stock place the pot on the hob and on a high heat bring the lot up to the boil.
Once it’s all hot place the pigeon, onion and garlic and any seasoning it may need (salt pepper and any spice’s you like) into the same pot give it a stir and into the oven it goes, medium heat for one hour.
Once cooked you may want to thicken the gravy a little so just sieve it out and thicken with cornflower in the usual way.
Enjoy

Optional extras while preparing the pigeon-
One 8 year old daughter shouting dad that’s horrible and one 6 year old son shouting can I have a wing to chase Kayleigh (daughter) with.

Roll on the summer.