Last week, we were very fortunate to be one of only 5 schools in the West Midlands to receive a visit from Matt Gisby from ‘A Taste of Game‘ for a masterclass on butchering and cooking with pheasant.
20 Year 9 and 10 pupils took part in this exciting activity. Pupils were supplied with one ‘oven ready’ pheasant between two and were shown how to remove the breast and legs before making it into a tasty starter.
This was a fabulous introduction for pupils studying KS4 food qualification, to experience a highly skilled practical task, enabling them to achieve higher grades if used in their final practical assessment. Pupils had the opportunity to learn about the food providence of game as well. Some pupils were a little nervous at first, but worked incredibly hard to achieve some fantastic outcomes, the final dish was a very tasty pheasant bruschetta with a horseradish mayonnaise, garnished with rocket and julienned crisp eating apple.
Most agreed it tasted wonderful. We would like to thank Matt Gisby and ‘A Taste of Game’ for their support as well as their free delivery of fresh pheasants for the practical task. We intend to repeat this every year with our Year 10 pupils, as part of their module on meat.
Here is the recipe our pupils made: https://tasteofgame.org.uk/pheasant-and-apple-bruschetta-with-horseradish-mayonnaise/
If anyone is interested in volunteering to work with Matt, who gives up his spare time, to for this cause, please contact [email protected] uk
