Method: To make Quail Soup, take some freshly made Chicken stock (made from the carcass of a very expensive organic, maize-fed, free range, chicken), add some vermicelli, then add a quail.
Et voila!
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I am a bit squeamish when it comes to eating small birds. Which is probably the reason I am not Italian. Apparently they eat sparrows. Or used to. As one of my uncles once said to me: "Don't believe everything you are being told." At the time I was about forty. Never too old to learn ...
ReplyDeleteWorst encounter of the feathered was in Hong Kong. Dear dog in heaven. Banquet. Insane number of courses. I don't know - twelve, fourteen. One of them in a tureen. Soup with pigeons floating in it. To me pigeons signal nothing but disease. So I passed - as unobtrusively as possible.
Anyway, as long as one of us enjoys a quail so much the better. Totally with you on good chicken stock.
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I do remember my people returning from Italy (?) with a small tin of 'Thrushes'. When we opened the tin they were extremely disappointing. I can't really remember what we were expecting; but it wasn't what we got!
DeleteI'm like Ursula. I don't like my food to look like a dead creature.
ReplyDeleteI go for flavour rather than appearance. I tend to eat the most awful looking things that taste wonderful. Octopus???
DeleteInteresting, Graham. Dead creatures. A few decades ago a kind soul gave me a rabbit, skinned and gutted. I put it into a porcelain dish with a lid, put said dish into fridge. Unfortunately, rabbits' bodies have an uncanny likeness to those of cats. Fast forward a couple of weeks. I binned it - including the vessel which I had liked.
DeleteHowever, fish. Different kettle. I went fishing, or possibly more accurately angling, with my grandfather from a very early age. Early bird catches the worm. We did. Out on the lake, in a boat. Sit still, talk quietly. Otherwise the catch won't bite. Once back on land, my grandfather should me how to kill a fish. Could I kill a chicken or whatever warm blooded with a pulse? No. But when I choose fish (there is a magnificent fishmongers not far) I tend to go for the whole. And serve it head and all. It's good not to disconnect from where our food comes from.
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Ursula, I used to fish for trout a lot here. I can catch, kill, gut and cook the fish and feed it to the family. However I couldn't eat it. If my son did all that and then gave it to me to eat I had no problem. I love trout and salmon. There is no logic there but the feelings are very real.
DeleteThey eat sparrows here. Not much meat on those bones. Your quail looks delicious
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