And I can’t believe Kerri isn’t your name! What a fraud!

x Ethel

Hippolyra – you’re right, it does take over your life but we’d both been obsessed with food for a long time – blogging just helps to focus you I think.

G

My camera now lives on top of the fridge and I live, think and breathe food. My first waking thought today was “Ahh forgot an ingredient on last night’s post” It takes over your life, but in a fun way.

The game pie contained wood pigeon, partridge and venison. The partridge was rather gamey and I didn’t particularly enjoy having to remove its feet, but it mellowed out and blended in with the other ingredients in the pie.

We also had red cabbage with apple and red wine. This took three and a half hours to cook; it’s not often that a side dish takes longer to cook than the main dish. It was good, but a little too sweet for our tastes. We’ll use less sugar next time, or possibly no sugar because the apple does add sweetness of its own.

Next time we cook something involving small birds, I would like it to involve stuffing them inside each other, which I suspect will be rather hard work.