The sound of Common Snipe

[Svaipa]

never tried boar. They run too fast. Is it like venison ?

[Chef Geoff]

No it's pork so just the same as shop bought though larger boars have a stronger flavour

[Svaipa]

Oh, thought it was more game like.

[Chef Geoff]

No not really though as i say the older (large) ones are a bit that way and you've got to be careful what time of year it is as like brown trout they take on the flavour of what they have eaten so late autumn is better as the diet is practically wholy nuts and acorns.

[Val Beechey]

You saying that, Geoff, reminded me of some pork we had in the shop years ago.  It tasted of fish    Goodness knows what they'd been fed but it def. came through in the taste.

Best we ever had was during a swine flu outbreak. Hundreds of sucking piglets going for next to nothing. I cooked a whole leg and it was fantastic.


Val

[Svaipa]

I bet the fishy taste is when they use feed with high amount of fish oils in them. I've had meat that smelt like fish too. The cats liked it though   

[Svaipa]

Is there anywhere else than going to a butcher one can get game ? I'm thinking maybe a more whole sale like place.

[Chef Geoff]

Online these people have a good reputation...they even sell squirrel
 http://www.wildmeat.co.uk/index.html
Willis' of Cwmbran have or can get most game meats but are not cheap.
http://www.douglaswillis.co.uk/CW_Products.aspx?PID=564
And for Boar and buffalo meat, I've always used these people, they sell everything from kangaroo and alligator too reindeer and locust.
Fosters Farm, South Barrow, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7LN. Tel 01963-440315
A friend of mine put Rudolph burgers on his menu one Christmas and got fire bombed

[Svaipa]

Thanks a billion for those links chef. 
Reindeer meat, now that is quality. Smoked dried reindeer or moose meat...yum yum yum  Do you know if the reindeer is British or imported from Scandinavia ?

[Chef Geoff]

As far as I remember they came from Scotland.
I've never used or even heard of these people but their list is very impressive, they even sell horse yum yum
http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/index.php

Plus they have Snipe
http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/snipe.html

[Svaipa]

Camel sausages !! Now that IS special 
They're well over prised for the horse meat though, just under £20 a kg for steak. Do people in the Uk really want to pay that for horse  

[Chef Geoff]

I would purely because it's difficult to source but horse is always more expensive than beef even in France, when people get a cheap, tuff old steak on holiday and they say they think it was horse means they certainly haven't tried any, as horse is a far superior cut of meat.

[nobby]

I asked the butcher for a price on horse burgers he gave me 16-1

[Dryland]

lol 

[Svaipa]

Regular bought horse from my butcher back in Denmark and the price was something like 1/4 of beef. But maybe then it wasn't such a rarety. Wonder how well horse would go on UK restaurants though.