crock pot pheasant

[LABS4ME]

Thought I share one of my (and my wife's) favorite ways to prepare pheasant. Works great on those ol' long tails we seem to shoot this time of the year....

* Cut up 3-4 pheasnt breast fillets into 1" cubes.

* Dredge in seasoned flour (last night I used 50/50 flour and cajun fish breading, though I also like Gary Roachs breading straight up)

* Fry only till golden in a little olive oil

* transfer meat to your crockpot

* cut up 3-4 green onions and stems, sprinkle on top of meat

* mix together 1 can cream of chicken w/herbs soup, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 soup can of water, and 1 soup can of orange juice... pour over meat

* cook on low 6-8 hours or high 4 hours

* the last hour of cooking I like to add 1 package of FRESH button mushrooms and crumble up 3-4 strips of crispy bacon

* serve over Reames egg noodles (in the grocers freezer)

I invented this when in Canada goose hunting years ago, goes well with goose or duck too... but I brown the H20fowl in the bacon drippings in place of the olive oil. We served that with mashed potatoes then.

Other variations... last night I did the cajun flour on the meat, figured instead of the bacon I'd cut up some browned andouille sausage and put that in from the beginning... added some pearl onions during the last 1/2 hour of cooking,

try serving over wild rice in place of the noodles... My wife and kids love the noodles so we usually go with that, but the wild rice is a nice switch... You can experiment with this with other things, seems so far what ever I've used has come out well...

Good Luck!

Ken

[Wayne Sieber]

Labs4me,

Thanks for the recipe - I can't wait to try it. Labs do indeed rule!!

FD