Emerils Roast Pheasant

TomM24

I tried to do this recipe last night.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/emerils-favorite-roast-pheasant-recipe/index.html
I was worried that cooking it a 500 it would dry out.

Here's the stars of the show. A Griggstown pheasant and duck bacon.


Ready for the egg. Yes Bubbatim that red tie is silicon

On the egg just before taking the bacon off.


I started at 500 but ended at 325. I couldn't keep the temp up. Had both the bottom vent and the dmft wide open. I checked the lump this moring and it just burned down. I needed to add alot more. Sorry no final shot as I was triing to carve it on a too small cutting board I was getting juice all over the place and my wife got very mad. Needless to say it was a very juicy bird. It was a sin not to make gravy. I had chicken stock in the pan and the drippings smelled wonderful. At the high temp with the stock in the pan the bird was half roasted half steamed.

Austin Smoker

Looks great to me! So will it make a new Christmas Tradition?

I killed and ate my first pheasant last weekend and LOVE IT!.

TomM24

My first pheasant was a wild one that one of my frat brothers shot the only time I went hunting. It was great! They have all been store bought since then.

Boss Hogg

Hi Tom..
I just printed off the recipe-thanks for putting up the link. I have a bunch (a flock :blink: ) of pheasants in my freezer I need to cook. The only thing is that they have pellet holes in them,which should help the bacon flavor penetrate the meat better.
Brian

Fidel

Very Nice!

I've never heard of duck bacon. Where would one go to find such a beast?

I'm sure the drippings were heavenly.

Big'un

Beautiful cook! Duck bacon? I've never heard of such a thing. I'm guessing you can make some serious redeye gravy from that. Would have loved to have seen the carved bird, I guess you need tocome do the next one at my house.

TomM24

The duck bacon is from D'artagnan. We got it at Wegmans I imagine Whole Foods probably carries it. It's really good I'm going to make some ABTs with it.

http://www.dartagnan.com/item.asp?item=PSMBD002