Good Game, Good Game

What with winter closing in, we're battening down the hatches and thinking of heartier fayre on the food front...any excuse for some good old Co Antrim stodge - a few pounds on the hips  means we can turn the thermostat down on the ancient oil guzzling boiler (we're in the process of choosing a wood burning stove but that's for another day)  so we're really just doing our bit for the environment.

Tonight's dinner - mixed game casserole - our local Sainsbury are now selling packs of mixed game pieces, (last night we had venison steaks with root veg) so I looked for a tasty recipe and found a lovely one with red wine and beef stock - you can find it here. Of course I couldn't quite stick to the recipe so I added our own home grown root veg before sticking it in the oven (potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, beetroot) also a few tablespoonfuls of my recently made Blackberry Oxymel from James Wong Grow Your Own Drugs - Throughout The Year   what a fab book!

Anyways - needless to say I now can't move...had to have seconds and then there was so little left, it wasn't worth keeping for another day so polished off thirds...am forcing myself to down a few glasses of red wine just to help with the digestion of course.

Saturday night is foodie night - we're watching back to back 2 episodes of Great British Food Revival followed by this morning's Saturday Kitchen - that's what happens when you grow your own - you become food obsessed (or is it just us????)

Sorry the photos are so bad but I have no patience and the kitchen light not good.