Poacher's Roast

Poacher's roast is a traditional dish that originated in the Tower Mountains. It consists of stuffed and roasted silver-haired ox and red-eyed hook in a mountain limpet sauce.
In the early days of the Land Laws, the valleys in the middle of the Tower Mountains were owned by a greedy landowner who would not let anyone farm the land, graze their animals on it or forage for food without charging extortionate fees. As such, the people who lived in the mountains had to survive on the little they could do with the rocky land they lived on.
Silver-haired oxen, which live all throughout the mountains and the valley below, struggle to find food in the mountains but have plenty in the valley. They do not leave their home voluntarily, even to find better food sources. However the Tower Mountains people discovered that feeding them mountain limpets could make them alter their behaviour. The oxen would then be sent down into the valley to graze. In a few weeks, once the effect of the limpets wore off and they remembered their way home, they would return extremely well-fed. This indirect "poaching" of resources was much less risky than people trespassing onto the land.
Traditionally, several oxen would be sent into the valley during autumn. Upon their return, red-eyed hooks, large birds who prey on oxen, would be lured close enough to shoot by the tender meat. Poacher's roast was then made as a pre-winter community feast before the harshest weather hit. Whatever was not eaten then was preserved for the winter.