Comments on: Dovapalooza, or How I Grilled Zillions of Doves

By: Andy Zuick

Andy Zuick — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:43:53 +0000

No breasting birds, not even a dove – ata boy!

By: Miles

Miles — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:47:47 +0000

Hank,
That’s a seriously good post, it really is. A perfect way to cook.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:36:26 +0000

Mmm… you know, this Chirstmas, you have to do a post about cooking two turtledoves, and maybe a partiridge with a pear sauce.
(Couldn’t resist.)

By: NÃºria

NÃºria — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:21:07 +0000

Sure there’s hunters in Spain! And there’s many Spanish regions with an old hunting tradition… but I don’t know any… well actually, my horse backriding teacher’s father is a hunter… but I don’t know him.

By: suburbanbushwacker

suburbanbushwacker — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:04:35 +0000

Hank
You raise an interesting point (as well as a mouthwatering Barbie)
I was once told that the differances between the ‘live’ and ‘food’ names came about because norman nobles ate the meat and saxon pesants raised it.
I’ve not seen any more info on this and would be interested in hearing your take, as I know you’d have the books to referance it.
All the Best
SBW
PS congratulations to Holly on the great Pix

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:38:42 +0000

My husband still doesn’t like the dark meat of the dove but said your recipe for preparing them was the best he’s had. Thank you! It was delicious. He brought home just a couple for me to try this.. a winner!

By: hank

hank — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:27:28 +0000

You’d be surprised, Maryann — hitting a zooming dove is not as easy as you may think. They are usually hit with only one or two pellets, although occasionally you will nail one — but out of the 50-60 doves I cooked Monday, only about 4 were so shot up I couldn’t use them this way.

By: Maryann

Maryann — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:56:53 +0000

A shot gun for a tiny little dove? Am I the only one who thinks it would be blown to bits? haha
Then again, I’m no hunter, Hank. And you are probably a good shot and can aim for just their little heads or something.
(they look so delicious!)

By: e. nassar

e. nassar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:56:32 +0000

Not gruesome at all Hank! They look delicious, even uncooked. Kudos to you on converting hunters from the wasteful practice of breasting.