Rezepte » Quails and wild mushrooms

Hello Dear All, yesterday, I promised to give you my recipe for the quails. First of all, I have to explain you that in our little street, we have a monthly potluck event. That means that those who are interested in participating are invited to prepare something to eat (according to their own liking and choice). Rule is: prepare a portion that is a bit bigger than for one person and then, we put everything together and form a kind of buffet. Since there are no strict arrangements on what to prepare, it can happen that there are a lot of different soups or deserts. I always prefer to make a real warm meal (id est, meat, veggies and potatoes/pasta/rice) and I have never been good in making a one-or-two-person portion. And now the quails:
I started by preparing 1 kg of a mix of wild mushrooms. Very easy to do: bake them in some butter with a little salt and pepper.
I baked 8 quails also in some butter, with a little salt and pepper and let them become brown. Then, I added two thin (0.5 cm) slices of “foie gras de canard” (I always buy such a block in Aldi and the big advantage is: you can cut it in thin slices and put it in the freezer for further use). Then adding some honey (a soup spoon), a little glass of dry fino sherry and about 100 gr. of jambon de parme (chopped in small pieces) and give the quails the time to be cooked on a gentle fire. When the quails are ready, I take an oven plate, put the mushrooms in it and then the quails. Put the fire a little higher and mingle all other ingredients with some cream and let the sauce to become thicker and then pour the sauce over the quails and mushrooms. It is delicious with some bread, but you need to eat the quails with your fingers and not with a knife and a fork!!!!

Well, most probably, it would become easier next time if I would write in Dutch since there are so many words almost the same in German.
Dear Violetta, I always use quail eggs when preparing Scottish eggs and it is delicious. With regard to our Potluck event, I have to tell you that I am living in a very wonderful street, where people still care about each other without sitting on each other’s lap all the time. We are having this Potluck once per month except in July and August (vacation months), there are also two aperitief Sundays (shortly after New Year and after Summer vacation), our yearly BBQ, our Spring walk to the old Abbeye and so forth. And if ever you need help, there is always somebody prepared to give a helping hand.
Dear Gitta, you really should try quails, but again, you have to eat it with your hands, because they are very small. It is very tender and tasty and by the way, Christobal adores it. At least once per month, I prepare him two quails, only baked in some butter and he is then always showing very good appetite.

Patricia

ich finde es sehr schön, dass die Bewohner deiner Strasse so miteinander
leben, sich gegenseitig helfen und zusammen feiern oder Unternehmungen machen.
Wieviele Häuser stehen in deiner Strasse?

Das Rezept liest sich gut, aber so kleine Wachteln sind nicht mein Ding.