I recently treated myself to the dvd box set of my favorite cooking show, Two Fat Ladies: a classic of the information rich, this-shit'll-kill-you era of food television. The very strong flavored, old school, English style of cooking on the show often features little game birds of one sort or another, which inspired me. Unfortunately, the closest you can get to a game bird on FreshDirect is Cornish hen, so that's what I worked with here. Cornish hens have great texture but little flavor, so I opted to stuff them with tarragon and tangerines (which I had around) and pour over dried porcini (ditto)-flavored gravy. This left me with excess tarragon and porcinis; tossing them together with some potatoes and preparing them en papillote seemed a good way to pull these extras together as a side.

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