Sometimes I think I should title my blog "I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up If I Tried".
Here's a very recent conversation in our house:
Me: Girls, come look at these Cornish Game Hens we're having for supper. I've never cooked them before but I'm gonna try!
Megan: Oh...do you eat them just like that?
Me: Well, yeah, they've been cleaned out so you cook them just like this.
Megan: You mean they, like, gave them an enema to clean them out?
Me: Not exactly...
Megan: You know when you die your bladder lets loose...
Me: Outta the kitchen!
Me: Emily, I'm making chickens!
Emily: You are??? Oh, I want a pet chicken so bad...will they hatch eggs after you make them?
Me: No, Emily, I'm not MAKING chickens, I'm cooking chickens.
Emily: @#%$#!^$^%%$^!&#*!&^%#&#^@^%$!$#%$!#!
There will be no cornish game hens for supper.
I thawed them and realized they were...hairy. Is this normal? Have you cooked these before? My mom has never cooked them and neither has Scott. So feel free to chime in and let me know your experience with Cornish Game Hens.
Unless of course, your experience involves chicken enemas.
7 comments:
'Sounds like they've just a few pin feathers left on them. They're safe to cook, but you won't want to eat the skin; it's fatty any way.
You can treat them just as any other bird. Stuff them like little turkeys, roast them standing up over a steam bath of beer or fruit juice, cut them up and grill them, or brine and roast them whole.
I like brined poultry and there are tons of recipes online. I also like to butterfly them on the grill like little bitty chickens. Get some heavy meat scissors and cut out the backbone. Skewer them into a flat X shape and slow grill them bone side down so the skin bastes the meat. Season them with anything from simple salt and pepper to italian dressing to teriyaki or bbq sauce... whatever you like!
My Uncle put little tiny shorts on a cornish hen once and pretended it was a boxer. I have a fuzzy memory of this because I was really little, but like you, I am not making this stuff up.
Brooke
I know that my mother cooks them from time to time, so it can't be that hard. (My inability to cook is a genetic disorder.)
Fix some white rice over the stove then add a stick of butter and lipton onion soup mix. put the rice mixture in a roaster, then place the cornish game hens over the rice, salt and pepper the hens, cook in oven 350 for an hour and a half or so. just peel the skin off before eating. it's a meal in one.
Okay, sorry, but I can't do a cornish hen - that is, eat it - too much work and I would just rather have a chicken breast! I am so meat weird that I for sure don't want it to still have the shape of an animal! :) hugs, Anita
That's hysterical! I'm not a cook so I couldn't tell you a thing about cooking cornish hens. But at our last New Year's Party, my son asks, "What kind of bird makes Hot Wings?" Laughing several of us chimed in, "Hot Birds, of course." My kids, as yours, are definitely the life of the party each day. I love following your blog.
I've always thought cornish hens should be stuffed with corn. But that's probably just corny.
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