Mr Provost's Finest Reindeer Receipt - What is in Kelvin's Head?

Roughly chop a leek, couple of slices of bacon and as many cloves of garlic as you dare.

Heat a frying pan to a sizzle and fling the leek, bacon and garlic in, closely followed by the reindeer steaks.

After five minutes turn the steaks over and scoop the leek/pig/garlic into another pan.

Heat this as far as you dare and tip in enough cheap gin to make you wonder whether this is a waste of good gin.

Throw in a handful of blueberries

Heat until kitchen is covered in fog reminiscent of the incense at midnight mass.

Remove from heat and gently stir in several good dollops of crÃ¨me fraÃ®che.

Rudolph steaks will now be ready having cooked for a further five minutes. Artfully plate them up and cover with the sauce that will now be advent coloured.

Serve with oven roasted potato, butternut squash, red pepper, courgette ensemble.

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5 responses to “Mr Provost’s Finest Reindeer Receipt”

Bro David

27/12/2012

You know that English is not my first language, but I thought that when you buy something that the shop usually gives you a receipt and that the instructions regarding how to cook or bake something was a recipe.

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1. kelvin
  
  27/12/2012
  
  You are right, Bro David in that nowadays when you buy something you get a receipt and when you cook you follow a recipe.
  
  However, they come from the same word and it used to be that receipt was used for a list of cooking ingredients. See for example, Ladie Elynor Fettiplace’s Receipt Books, which I think Amazon still have in stock.
  
  So, my use above is an archaic form of English.
  
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Susan Sheppard Hedges

27/12/2012

Do you actually cook and eat reindeer? I would think with all the flying they do, the meat would be stringy and tough! 🙂 Seriously, though, can you buy deer at the butcher’s or do you have a friend who hunts?

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1. kelvin
  
  27/12/2012
  
  Yes, reindeer steaks for Christmas meal. Very seasonal. Delicious too.
  
  Any hunters around here would have to go quite a long way to bag a reindeer on the hills. (Finland?)
  
  These came from my local supermarket, Lidl who, being a German company often have things that others couldn’t or wouldn’t sell. (Snow chains this week!)
  
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  1. Susan Sheppard Hedges
    
    29/12/2012
    
    We have reindeer in the Northern climbs of our continent, Canada and Alaska. They are mostly called Caribou here. People do hunt regular sorts of deer in the US. My mother in her later years, had a neighbor that would bring her a prepared haunch sometimes. She said it was ‘gamey, but not bad’ which one could only expect of wild animals. I love the fact that your supermarket sells snow chains. It’s always nice to have a supplier for the emergencies.
    
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