Crow, Magpie, Pigeon recipes

[Afromonk]

Anyone have any good simple recipes for these fuckers?
Killed a Large crow, several magpies and a few pigeons this week and it feels a waste to chuck them all (have now, ill go kill some more), so is there any good simple recipes anyone knows of? :thumbsup:

[BoilingLeadBath]

Personally, I'm not a big fan of following recipes... so, some general advice:
1) These are birds, so they probably are too lean. (no experience with the species in question) Add a saturated fat of your choice.
2) Given their diets, you will probably want to cook the corvids with some stronger-flavored seasonings. Perhaps an Indian, Hispanic, or Oriental spicyness is in order... or a seasoning mixture with a good dash of sage and some rosemary. You probably don't want to do a tomato or citrus based treatment, and I figure masala is right out.

But, if you must, "pigeons" are "doves", and you'll probably get more results if you google "dove recipes", so that's my recommendation.

[Mor3BL7]

dis nigga actually gonna eat a pigeon?
LOL!!!

[Creepy Lurker Dude]

Crows...Magpies...Fucking NASTY.

[Venta]

Crows...Magpies...Fucking NASTY.

This. As well as having next to no meat on them, the idea just makes me sick. I'm having to type this between bouts of dry retching and involuntary defecation. Pigeons are good eating though. Make a pie. Classic.

[mksnowboarder]

What little meat a crow has is tough and nasty.

mike

[Mantikore]

pigeons are tasty, but those small birds seem too bony.

anyway, where i live, there are an assload of ibises. i feel like trapping and eating one someday. theyre as big as a chicken and seem pretty tasty

[Nonremos]

Roasted pigeons are quite common in any authentic/semiauthentic Chinese restaurant. Don't know the exact recipe, but its basically rubbing seasonings and oil into the skin and roasting in an oven.

[unstableasatable]

i just googled crow recipies and got a shit loada results, but i no chef and so cant say what will tatse goodm


and apperently the nursey rhyme 4 and 20 blackbird baked in a pie was actually about crows. and yeah my spelling is shit

[Dr rocker]

Pigeons I normally breast them as I shoot them. I just fry the breasts so they are rare. I only eat wood pigeon tho, not nasty street pigeon.

Corvids I have never eaten. Even if I were starving I would be as likely to come across and shoot a rabbit or a pigeon. From those I know who do eat them and what I have read, stewing them is the way to go - it will tenderise the meat and kill any parasites they have.

Corvids should be shot just for the damage they do to songbird populations and leave the carcass for the foxes and the flies.

[parkus]

Mince the meat, mix with sausage meat and make burgers.

Or, as said above, roast on the bone. Preferably in a tall casserole dish with vegetables and red wine / stock.

Alot of game recipes use the same guideline herbs, so maybe look into that?

[Sal, a man-deer]

Ive eaten a pigeon before. I was homeless and cooked it over a fire in the sink of an abandoned block of apartments.

[Femme Fatale]

Ive eaten a pigeon before. I was homeless and cooked it over a fire in the sink of an abandoned block of apartments.

You gutted and cleaned it's surface, right?

[parkus]

City pigeon is one of the most disease ridden animals out there. Think of what its diet consists of. I wouldn't mind eating a feral pigeon from rural areas though, they would mainly be eating crops.

[felonious_monk]

post pics of you guys eating birds or it didnt happen

[Nonremos]

post pics of you guys eating birds or it didnt happen

http://www.theindysource.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/000946-fat-overweight-black-woman-with-huge-red-hair-eating-kfc-chicken.jpg

[Sal, a man-deer]

You gutted and cleaned it's surface, right?

Exactly. Got a bit burnt but I was starving.

[Trix Are For Kids]

Well honestly I made a pretty sweet marsala recipe out of a crow one time. It was pretty tasty, for crow. I don't remember the actual recipe but search marsala online and just use crow as the meat.

[1983]

There used to be a good amount of pidgins around the farm. Really light meat and watch for the bones... Really fragile.

Al

[ilovechronic]

i just googled crow recipies and got a shit loada results, but i no chef and so cant say what will tatse goodm


and apperently the nursey rhyme 4 and 20 blackbird baked in a pie was actually about crows. and yeah my spelling is shit

Thts about "pie birds" dude. They are little venting towers that go in a pie that are shaped like birds so the pie does not blow up.

As someone else said what you know as "pigeons" are actually called rock doves. IIRC they were originally imported as food.

[Issue313]

I don't think disease would be a problem, as much as various toxins and heavy metals, which tend to accumulate in the bodies of predators. I wouldn't eat anything that grew up in a city.

But regards eating, just make sure that you swallow them head first so the feathers don't lodge in your throat.

[Unnecessary~surgery]

This reminds me of a some parki i knew once.

His father would take him with him to the city.

You know the pigeons in the city? Most of them are all fucked up due to inbreeding, and got clump feet and general deformities. This combined with constantly being close to humans and human culture etc, makes them both slow and trusting.

So they would lure them in with breadcrumbs and then stomp on them when they got close enough. Then take them home and fry them up.

Also the back of his head was completely flat. I mean you could run your hand from his neck to the top his head without a single curve anywhere.

[1983]

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Al

[Mutant Funk Drink]

I don't think crows/ravens/magpies are good enough to eat. I could be wrong, but they probably carry diseases from all the trash they eat. Pigeons are good to eat though. There's also the possibility of eating park ducks and geese, but someone else made a thread on that I think.

[AINews]

You gutted and cleaned it's surface, right?

I once invited friends over for Thanksgiving and killed and cooked a turkey. After the meal one guy asked what I stuffed it with. I told him it wasn't empty.