Give me your best Cornish Game Hen recipe!

[Stella]

Let's see 'em!

[Meenah]

Don't have any but would love too, so I'll be watching here too!!!!!

[Vanquisher]

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cornish-Ga ... etail.aspx

This one is good and simple. We liked it.

4 Cornish game hens
salt and pepper to taste
1 lemon, quartered
4 sprigs fresh rosemary
3 tablespoons olive oil
24 cloves garlic
1/3 cup white wine
1/3 cup low-sodium chicken broth
4 sprigs fresh rosemary, for garnish

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
Rub hens with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Lightly season hens with salt and pepper. Place 1 lemon wedge and 1 sprig rosemary in cavity of each hen. Arrange in a large, heavy roasting pan, and arrange garlic cloves around hens. Roast in preheated oven for 25 minutes.
Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a mixing bowl, whisk together wine, chicken broth, and remaining 2 tablespoons of oil; pour over hens. Continue roasting about 25 minutes longer, or until hens are golden brown and juices run clear. Baste with pan juices every 10 minutes.
Transfer hens to a platter, pouring any cavity juices into the roasting pan. Tent hens with aluminum foil to keep warm. Transfer pan juices and garlic cloves to a medium saucepan and boil until liquids reduce to a sauce consistency, about 6 minutes. Cut hens in half lengthwise and arrange on plates. Spoon sauce and garlic around hens. Garnish with rosemary sprigs, and serve.

[Meenah]

This sounds really good. Heidi can you please come and cook for me? This last semester of school I haven't cooked, much less grocery shopped. If we want to eat at home I think our choice would be cat food or dog food!!!! We have eaten most of our meals in the hospital.

[Vanquisher]

Luanne, I would love to come and cook for you! I will one day. It is a promise!

When we have our big iMSN retreat, I want to be in charge of cooking.

That one sounds good. I haven't made game hens in a while.

This is what I usually make but I skip the liver part:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recip ... views/1558

CORNISH GAME HEN WITH STUFFING AND SHERRIED GRAVY
Garlic mashed potatoes and green beans sprinkled with toasted almonds are perfect with this dish.
6 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup canned low-salt chicken broth
1 1/2 cups dry corn bread stuffing mix
2 teaspoons dried rubbed sage
1 1 1/2- to 1 3/4-pound Cornish game hen, quartered, liver chopped
2 tablespoons dry Sherry



Preheat oven to 475°F. Butter 11x7-inch baking pan. Bring 6 tablespoons broth just to simmer in medium saucepan; remove from heat. Mix in stuffing mix and 1 teaspoon sage. Spoon stuffing in 4 equal mounds in prepared pan. Season hen quarters with 1 teaspoon sage and salt and pepper. Press 1 hen quarter onto each stuffing mound.
Bake until hen is golden brown and juices run clear when hen is pierced with skewer, about 20 minutes. Transfer hen and stuffing to 2 plates; tent with foil to keep warm. Do not clean baking pan.

Place liver and remaining 1/4 cup broth in same baking pan. Set pan over medium heat. Boil until slightly thickened, scraping up browned bits, about 2 minutes. Mix in dry Sherry; simmer 1 minute. Spoon gravy over hen pieces and serve immediately.

2 servings; can be doubled.
Bon Appétit
March 1996