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Posted: 21 January 2007 02:35 AM |
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I am on a favorites kick tonight so I`ll try this one too.I like squirrel,its ok.Granny ued to make squirrel dumplings for my Grampa and they were good.
I hate wild turkey and geese..
But my favorite is fried rabbit.I love it..Rolled in flour and dropped on a hat skillet with a bit of melted grease..
Lets hear what you like to eat?
With all the shooting we do ,there has got to be some aeting involved so tell us what you like to eat small game wise.?
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Posted: 21 January 2007 02:58 AM |
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Not only do we want to know what you like, but we need recipes to go with. What's the use of knowing what you like if we don't know how you like it?
BTW, there is a recipe section on survivalmonkey that would benefit from your knowlege as well. If you are not a member and don't want to be, post the recipe here and let me know. I'll copy it over there and give you credit.
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Posted: 21 January 2007 03:04 AM |
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You`re right GHrit..Lets hear some recipes to go with it.
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Posted: 21 January 2007 04:33 AM |
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Good topic TG...Like you I don't like goose and the only thing on a wild turkey worth eating is the breast cut up and cooked with gravy and dressing, even then it's hit or miss.But I've got to say that I've heard that the liquid Wild Turkey's not so bad . Not to fond of tree rat's...long story...leave it at that. now rabbits, that's another story, running them with good beagles in the fall with the smell of wood smoke in the air...heven. Oh yea, they cook up good to. Now if your talkin jack rabbits like you boy's have out west, well may be the dog's and hog's might like them.
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Posted: 21 January 2007 05:24 AM |
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Not much I haven't eaten, and I blame my late uncle. he grew up as a dirt poor farm boy in the postoak savanah area, about 60 miles west of Houston. If it walked, crawled, slithered, flew, orr whatever across their farm, they killed it and ate it. Some of the things I was introduced to as a kid:
Rabbit: rather obvious, everybody eats rabbits. We used to hunt swamp rabbits with dogs.
Squirrels: Tough to beat young fried squirrel, with cream gravy. I drew the line at squirrel brains, though. My uncle used to save squirrel heads in the freezer until there were enough to bother cooking.
Possums: Pretty good, bake them in a roasting pan. Be sure to use a rack, they are pretty greasey.
Racoon: there was always someone who would bring a racoon or two to the barbeques, and throw them on the pit. Not bad.
Robins: I can say it now, the statue of limitations has run out! Every year when the robins would migrate thru, the old timers would kill them by the bushel. Robin breast is better than dove, by a long shot.
What lots of folks call trash fish; I know, not small game but still outdoors: Gar, buffalo, carp, and freshwater drum, locally called gaspergou.
Crows: In the 60's many of the poor blacks in his area killed crows when they showed up at the rice fields in the river bottoms. After eating nothing but rice for a few weeks, they taste-well, better than you would expect crow to taste!
Today, I'l stick to rabbit, squirrel, dove, turkey breast, and the occasional armadillo.
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Posted: 21 January 2007 04:22 PM |
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| My favorite is quail. I believe squirrel make the best gravy . I love fried rabbit . Wild Turkey is very good Timber but in my opinion you must fry just like chicken , baking them they are just not good, fry them and nothing taste better. I really like Frog legs and they are consider small game in the east and they have a season set on them or they did the last time i checked.
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wolfkill
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Posted: 23 January 2007 05:11 AM |
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One of my best memories of small game eating is a little brown chicken we call a grouse up here in Minnesota. It goes by other names too. Attached pic is what is left after field cleaning. As you can see everyone likes to eat the grouse.
Anyway I usually eat them fresh fryed in a skillet of hot oil. I don't roll them in flour or anything, simply salt them good. With a skillet of fried potato's very tasty.
They have seasons they peak out and I can remember one day eating 5 of them. Every time I went on on the ATV I ran across one and harvested it.
Another time I was doing some serious scouting for 10 days and camping out in a tent. I had the ruger .22 pistol and each sundown for the 10 days I enjoyed "fried tators with a little brown chicken breast."
That memory of the meal at sundown is about all I remember doing those 10 days.
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Posted: 23 January 2007 05:41 AM |
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All this talk of eating now you've made me dig out a bear roast for the crock pot with a can of mushroom soup to it.
Buddy of mine told me to try a big old can of lipton soup mix too in the crock pot but that can has dissappeared and the wife claiming ignorance 
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Posted: 23 January 2007 06:05 AM |
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I'm with wolfkill on the grouse/partridge. I haven't had one in years, see them a lot when I'm deer huntin'. Rabbit, and squirrel are good. Haven't had the in a while either. Anyone of them are good in a crockpot with wild rice and cream of mushroom soup.
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Posted: 23 January 2007 03:29 PM |
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I love Ruff Grouse , but i believe Quail are better and i have ate a lot of both over the years. But i do like Grouse.
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Posted: 23 January 2007 04:08 PM |
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| The very best small game I ever ate was rabbit prepared by my buddy Bosco. He's a nursery man and has a state permit to trap rabbits to keep 'em from eating his raspberry stock and saplings. He traps 'em and fillets out the hind legs and the back meat. After he's got 50 or so in the freezer he thaws 'em out and using a wooden mallet hammers them out a little thinner. Then he dips 'em in egg and rolls them in cracker crumbs and deep fries. After the deep fry he layers them on a rack in a big old Nesco roaster. He pours a bottle of Peach Schnapps and little water down the side to bring the level just about to the bottom of the rack. Then he turns it on simmer and lets it go all day. Cracker crumbs take on that Peach Flavor and the rabbit just melts in your mouth. You'd think the cracker crumbs would get a little soggy, but if they do, I sure don't think it ever hurt anything. I'm hungry just thinking about it. RD
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Posted: 1 March 2007 02:11 AM |
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Mice at the local dump when I was a kid! BB gun style, all day fun! Now, the dump is a recycling center, and the mice are homeless!
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Posted: 1 March 2007 02:24 AM |
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sdb777 wrote: Mice at the local dump when I was a kid! BB gun style, all day fun! Now, the dump is a recycling center, and the mice are homeless!
Scott (good ole days) B
Did you fry them or boil them?
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Posted: 1 March 2007 02:28 AM |
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steve a wrote: sdb777 wrote: Mice at the local dump when I was a kid! BB gun style, all day fun! Now, the dump is a recycling center, and the mice are homeless!
Scott (good ole days) B
Did you fry them or boil them?
Crows gotta eat too!
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Posted: 1 March 2007 02:48 AM |
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I grew up in New England. We call grouse partridge up there. I loved it. I killed a heck of a lot more head shooting them with a deer rifle than on the wing with a shotgun. Had a bunch of bushytailed tree rat and contontail too. I'm out west now and have swiched to quail. Want to try chukars but can't get close enough!
I like to roll my cut up bunnies in salt and pepper and flour and fry them with onion. When they are done take them out and pour off almost all the oil. While the pan is still hot (cast iron of course) pour a cup of white wine on top of all the nice crisppy stuff and carmalized onions in the pan and stir it all in while the wine boils and throw some cut up mushrooms in and cook it all down till it thickens up. Pour that on top of rabbit and some rice.
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Posted: 1 March 2007 04:38 PM |
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Charley wrote: Not much I haven't eaten, and I blame my late uncle. he grew up as a dirt poor farm boy in the postoak savanah area, about 60 miles west of Houston. If it walked, crawled, slithered, flew, orr whatever across their farm, they killed it and ate it. Some of the things I was introduced to as a kid:
Rabbit: rather obvious, everybody eats rabbits. We used to hunt swamp rabbits with dogs.
Squirrels: Tough to beat young fried squirrel, with cream gravy. I drew the line at squirrel brains, though. My uncle used to save squirrel heads in the freezer until there were enough to bother cooking.
Possums: Pretty good, bake them in a roasting pan. Be sure to use a rack, they are pretty greasey.
Racoon: there was always someone who would bring a racoon or two to the barbeques, and throw them on the pit. Not bad.
Robins: I can say it now, the statue of limitations has run out! Every year when the robins would migrate thru, the old timers would kill them by the bushel. Robin breast is better than dove, by a long shot.
What lots of folks call trash fish; I know, not small game but still outdoors: Gar, buffalo, carp, and freshwater drum, locally called gaspergou.
Crows: In the 60's many of the poor blacks in his area killed crows when they showed up at the rice fields in the river bottoms. After eating nothing but rice for a few weeks, they taste-well, better than you would expect crow to taste!
Today, I'l stick to rabbit, squirrel, dove, turkey breast, and the occasional armadillo.
What about armadillo Charley?
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Posted: 1 March 2007 05:05 PM |
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What about armadillo Charley?
Taste like chicken!
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Posted: 4 March 2007 03:09 AM |
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Frog legs, rabbit, both cotton tail and swamp and young jacks too, nutria, beaver, squirrel, coon, doves, quail, gator, snapper and leatherback turtles..
I would have to make a 50 to 100 page cook book to take care of all my 2 grandma's, my aunt's and my cousin's recipies, let alone the recipes I have developed over the 58 years I have been cooking things, starting with crayfish from the drainage ditch at age 6.[ spit broiled over a splinter fire]
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Posted: 6 March 2007 01:36 AM |
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| Thought I'd jump in. Being single with a son and somewhat like to cook. I rarely buy meat in the store. Always have a freezer full or deer and elk and some times loper. I'm with you Wild Bill and Wolfkill . I agree with you two on the mushroom soup ! I'll give you guys a great recipe in a min. But for small game I like rabbit, quail,pheasant and wild turkey if cooked in a bag in the oven or deep fried. My favorite thing to do is crockpot deer,elk,antelope,hog,etc. . Dosen't matter if it's a roast or cubed steak, whatever. Add a large can of cream o mushroom soup, a small can of french onion soup. Then cut up carrots,potatoes,mushrooms,onions,celery,tomato,garlic. add enough water to fill the pot about an in. below top . add salt,pepper,oregano,lemon pepper,etc. to taste. turn it on and go to work. Come home ,chow time. Oh ! You have to have french rolls to dip in the soup it makes. The best part. Haven't met even an anti hunter that didn't like it. Man, now I'm hungry... Great topic T.G. ! Last edited on 6 March 2007 01:42 AM by wyo300rum
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Posted: 6 March 2007 01:39 AM |
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| Steve, your recipe sounds awesome. I'm writing that one down. It even made me hungrier !
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