The Harbour City capitol, the lights beside the sea

AKA The John Crowley Recipe for Cooking a Mutton-Bird – Step 2 – vegetables and grilling (Step 1 here).

Beans and yams with roast potatoes, seemed like a good idea for vegetables but I feel I need to admit I am also making a rich fig sauce to accompany the mutton-bird, however, due to issues to do with neutrality and not wanting to open myself up to criticism of bias, I cannot detail the sauce recipe here.

These vegetables are about to be cooked including possible future product placement revenue opportunities.

Once the vegetables have been safely cooked in the oven, it is time to get your grill on

The mutton-bird is ready to be grilled.

It isn’t a good idea to get sidetracked when the mutton bird is under the grill, things can go badly wrong quickly, burning, smoking and fire. After a while the mutton-bird will be grilled properly and should look like this.

Mutton-bird ready for carving and eating.

The next step is to dish up the vegetables, sauce and sea bird ready for eating.

The finished product

There you go, now you too are empowered to eat a migratory sea bird that between climate change and human exploitation are unlikely to be around forever.

Get’em before they go the way of the Dodo.