Venison Sausages

THE wild game season is well and truly underway again.

I love game, but lots of people have been telling me that they haven’t the foggiest idea how to go about preparing or cooking it. So who better than George Gossip to give us all a master class in everything from how to identify the birds to plucking, gutting, stuffing and trussing.

George is unquestionably the best game cook I know and a brilliantly entertaining teacher with an irreverent sense of humour. He and his wife Susie own Ballinderry Park, a beautiful Hidden Ireland guest house near Ballinasloe, Co Galway, which they restored from an advanced state of dereliction. He loves and is deeply knowledgeable about the countryside and the environment and has been cooking and enjoying game for a very long time, hence his extensive repertoire of both traditional and contemporary recipes.