Recipe for venison casserole with prunes, armagnac and crispy chestnuts Ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 300g shallots, peeled and sliced in half 8 whole medium garlic cloves, peeled 4 sticks celery, chopped into bite-sized pieces 400g carrots, peeled and chopped into bite-sized pieces 1 tbsp thyme, finely chopped 1 tbsp…
Roast partridge with clementine, winter spice and sherry gravy This recipe serves 2 Ingredients 2 whole oven ready partridges 4 tbsp rapeseed oil 80g cooking chorizo, cut into 1cm cubes 4 large shallots, peeled and sliced into small wedges 2 sticks celery, washed, trimmed and cut into 1cm pieces 4…
Pick out the best Christmas turkey and you’ll be making your festive feast one to remember. Choose from The Field’s pick of the best Christmas turkeys. And have it delivered straight to your front door for the 25th. The turkey may be the centrepiece, but no festive feast is complete…
Slow-cooking offers many advantages to the time-pressed cook and much of the game and venison we enjoy is perfect for a leisurely simmer in the oven over a few hours. A long, low temperature cooking time will result in meat that is tender and ‘fall-apart’ soft. Flavours can blend over…
If you haven’t had time to make and ice a fruitcake for Christmas then never despair. We’ve sought out a selection of the best festive fruitcakes to feast on over the Christmas season. At the time of writing they were all in stock and available for delivery or collection. Fruitcakes…
With its rugged hills and steep-sided valleys, Wales offers some of the finest and most challenging game shooting in the UK. The Welsh countryside has been shaped over the centuries by its rural community, a sense of common culture and a passion for sport. Shooting is fundamentally tied to this…
The Irish terrier has been described many ways historically: the farmer’s friend, the poor man’s sentinel and the gentleman’s favourite. In Ireland he’s often known as the ‘red devil’, so it is fair to assert that the Irish terrier means different things to different people. What everyone can agree on…
The origin of the paper advent calendar is credited to German publisher Gerhard Lang in the early 1900s. He was inspired by his mother sewing 24 biscuits into the lid of a box, one of which he was allowed to eat every day of Advent. In the last decade or…
Tarragon pheasant, mushroom and leek cobbler with yoghurt and cheese scones Ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 4 tbsp salted butter 8 skinless pheasant breasts, cut into bite-sized chunks 4 medium leeks, sliced into 2cm-thick circles 350g chestnut mushrooms, chopped into bite-sized pieces 2 tbsp plain flour 20g tarragon leaves, finely…
Dear Freddie, I am delighted to hear you have an invitation to a rough day just before Christmas.Some of my happiest shooting memories have been of rough days over dogs in December, when the air is cold and crisp, the trees are gaunt and leafless, the hedgerows are bare of…
