Rasawek Quail
 

Rasawek quail are the main course tonight ! Along with boiled potatoes n green beans , cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.

boy are nt you eating good tonite....charlie

Yes sir it was !

Looks pretty healthy, too!

My sons and I had a game dinner at our club a year and a half ago and it was so good. We just gave them the game and said surprise us. The woodcock appetizer was the best, followed by venison and quail courses.

There used to be a hunt club in central Virginia that did a game supper every year as a way to raise money for dog food as they kept bear dogs and I think deer hounds . Anyway they'd have all kinds of stuff of course venison and bear , usually someone would show up with a portion of elk , maybe some ducks etc . But they'd also bake woodchucks and if I'm not mistaken coons . Those last to are a bit much for me , about as far as I go is the heart from a deer .

I had a very Dutch/German great aunt that could serve up a roasted coon that would make ya jump for joy. Very dark meat and she fixed it with a dark gravy with potato dumplings and carrots and onions. It was to die for. Her secret was cleaning the coon up really good, removing all the fat and the "kernels" under the "arms" and then par boiling it with bay leaf prior to roasting.

As to woodchucks, there was an older black gentleman that worked for my Dad and asked me to bring him woodchucks as his wife and he loved them. He brought us some and it, again, was a dark meat and was quite tasty.

My grandparents on my fathers side used to have a guy trap POSSUMS for them . By trap I mean catch them live and bring them to them . Then they'd put them in a cage and feed them whatever to as they said clean them out kinda like some folks do with turtles . I'll tell you right now there ain't no way in hell I'm eating a possum :eek:

And I gotta say coons and groundhogs are on the no way list .

Lotta people eat deer liver and I was offered some when I went deer hunting in Maine but I passed . Actually Maine was the first place I tried deer heart . But I'm not much on any liver be it beef chicken or whatever .

I can remmember my great grandmother on my mothers side telling me one time , when we killed a hog we ate everything from his rooter to his tooter except the squeal :whistle:

Coon tastes like motor oil. Done once and never again

I once knew a Portuguese chef that suggested I bring him a nice young woodchuck and he would prepare it. I did, he did, and it was splendid. Never had the guts to try it myself.

I had my grandmother make a stew out of a big roadkill coon I brought home one night after a friend I was riding with hit it with her Corvair. I made the hide a project for my Northwestern School of Taxidermy course and had it sitting on the end of the dinner table scowling in our direction. My sister commented on how good the stew was and asked what it was made of....Well, I told her, it's that bad boy sitting on the other end of the table. Bad idea. She gagged and ran outside to toss her cookies off the porch. I still can't help but remind her of that one every few years! It was good eating, but my grandmother was a genius of a cook who could make just about anything palatable.

Everything looks great except the cucumbers, Craig. Wife loves them, but not me.

Hogs will eat anything. Well, almost anything. You can throw cucumbers into a hog pen and they will lay there until they dry up. They won't touch them. Just sayin'..............

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Dug a few new red potatoes out of my garden yesterday and boiled them for supper last night and boy were they so good! Bobby

Hogs are pretty smart. I side with my friends Stan and the hogs.:whistle:





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A friend that has a farm has two grown sons that as children had food from the garden etc and they both grew up not liking tomatoes . Don’t like raw tomatoes on anything no Tomatoe sandwiches . Think they’re okay with spaghetti sauce and ketchup . Always thought that a little unusual :whistle:

When I was about ten or twelve I caught my mother sprinkling sugar on her sliced tomatoes... I wondered why she had always hidden that passion from her kids until I tried it. Sugar changes the taste of tomatoes in a good way.





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Do not ever utter those words in the presence of an Italian again Dean :eek:

Not my fault. My maternal grandmother was full Irish (Goodwin).

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In the summer if I can find some of those big old knotty pink beefsteak tomatoes I can take them a loaf of bread a jar of Kraft Mayo salt make three or four sandwiches have some sharp cheddar slices on the side and a quart of 1% fat milk and make a meal of it ! I look forward to doing just that as a matter of fact in a few weeks .

Huh? 1% milk when there’s nobody watching you?





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2% , 1% or skim milk preferred . I’m not much on whole milk unless it’s the only available . I’m not a coffee or hot tea drinker , but I drink plenty milk .