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Deerstalking is good for body mind and soul.
Today we want to feed all three with a simple dish that's ideal for setting you up for the
day: the stalker's breakfast.
We find Mark using a handy roller to prepare our main ingredients - offal - not everyone's
bag and amusingly - not Mark's either...
You have just been out stalking, you have just got yourself a deer.
Take out the livers and the kidneys and we are going to make a breakfast, but it is not
breakfast time.
It is afternoon time, but it is still the same method.
Get your kidneys cut them in half.
Tend to have a bit of sinew on them, you need to get this bit off.
Oops without splitting the kidney.
So around the edge.
Have you got that David, I can't actually see what I am doing because you have got the
camera in the way mate.
I didn't do this when I worked for the BBC.
I was on Ready, Steady Cook as an extra.
Extra what?
David do all the sarcasm at the end of it.
Kidneys.
The person who says I don't like kidneys or offal because I was forced fed it at school
used to make me cry.
David don't put that in, I didn't like it.
Every week they made me eat liver ... So I am afraid I won't be eating this.
We leave Mark tending to the liver to visit farmer Andy Crow working hard on the combine.
Later we want to feed the hard working Crowman, who doesn't know whether it's breakfast, lunch
or tea.
But we need our raw ingredients - So what's the plan Mark?
What are we doing.
We are deer stalking.
This is your idea why are you asking me?
Oh sorry ... serious face, serious face.
We are going to try and knock over some bucks over at Andy Crow's.
He has got 30 or 40 quite big bucks living in his rape.
I feel very continental and smart.
Maybe if I start wearing this sort of clothing I will start behaving.
Maybe I will be forced to wear smart clothing all the time so that I am on best behaviour
when filming for the Fieldsports Channel.
I am going to wear my defenders as well.
I think it was Dom that told me that ten 308 bullets that aren't moderated do as much damage
to your ears as 5,000 shotgun rounds.
I can believe that so I always wear ear defenders.
The other thing is if I put them in and turn the microphones off I won't have to listen
to Thunderfoot Dave Wright trampling through the undergrowth.
For a light man you have never heard such a small person make so much noise through
the undergrowth.
Mark is certainly looking a lot smarter in his ShooterKing forest jacket ... except for
the shoes - which, we have to say, are not part of the shooter King range.
We have our suspicions that Mark's had this pair of sensible lace-ups since year 12.
Back to the cooking and Mark is popping some sausages and bacon in the oven.
The rest will be done in the pan with olive oil and seasoning.
Just going to cook some mushrooms and onions, cook them down and salt, pepper and then I
am going to fry the liver in the pan with all that lot and when it just cooked, take
it out turn the oven off so that it can relax, leave it in the oven for two to three minutes
while I cook the eggs.
Put it all together.
The elephant in the room - or the chest cavity is the heart - Crowman's favourite - so what
will Mark do with that?
Maybe stuff it or something like that with rice, peppers, onions that sort of stuff.
Put it in the oven, wrap it in foil for about 40, 45 minutes.
I think frying it would make it go pretty tough, in fact Crow said if you fry it it
will go pretty tough.
So we have left the heart to one side.
If you look in Crow's freezer it is just full up with hearts and he sells the rest of the
animal so I feel that we are taking the most precious thing away from him.
Bit like when you take man make up from Roy Lupton.
No you better take that bit out.
Mark fries the kidneys and liver for about 5 minutes - then takes them off the heat to
rest - freeing up the pan for the eggs.
Right top tip.
If you want to make sure the top of the egg is cooked plate on top.
Back to our stalk and we're into some deer - the trouble is they are on the wrong side
of the tracks.
What makes matters worse is that there's a perfect young buck amongst the herd.
With a tinge of frustration we move on to the high seat fit for a ShooterKing.
From up here we can see the fallow have been making a lot of mess.
Unfortunately it's a no show for us so in true Blue Peter fashion - we use one we shot
earlier - or rather the liver and kidneys from a roe Dom shot earlier.
So we have got liver, kidney, tomatoes, home grown eggs, sorry it has burst, venison sausages,
bacon.
So what does Crow junior think of the stalkers breakfast?
Success Gilchrist.
What is the liver like?
Nice, seeing I don't like liver, nice.
Doesn't anyone like liver?
You will be glad to hear that some of the meal did find its way across to a grateful
Andy, although the portion wasn't as large as we'd hoped.
If you'd like more information about the ShooterKing clothing range go to ShooterKing.co.uk - and
if you'd like the recipe for stalkers breakfast - Mark says watch the film again - he can't
remember.