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I hear they taste like chicken!!
Thats a lot of chicken!! LOL!

gunnut wrote:I hear they taste like chicken!!
Thats a lot of chicken!! LOL!

I have heard that too, but most people tell me it tastes like a cross between chicken and fish with a crab like texture. Either way I have always wanted to try it.

uummm! Gator gumbo!
and what other cajun magic can they come up with!

It does taste like chicken... the tail meat anyway. this is the most sought after part on the market. Actually it tastes more like frog legs, light in color & taste. It can be substituted for chicken or pork in ANY of your favorite recipes... sauce piquant, etouffee, bisque, gumbo or fricassee. it is however the only cut that can be grilled or fried like fish. the red meat (legs & back) is preferred; locally, for most of the above recipes which require low slow cooking.
Sauce piquant (camp favorite)
3lbs alligator meat diced & seasoned with cajun seasoning & worchestershire sauce
1large onion diced
1large bell pepper diced
1lg stalk celery diced
3 cloves garlic minced
3 cans Rotel w/liquid
2 cans tomato sauce
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup flour
cajun seasoning(Zatarain's)
hot sauce
worchestershire sauce
in a medium size (5qt) black iron pot heat oil and brown gator meat. remove meat, reduce heat and add flour to oil for roux. brown lightly. add onions, peppers, celery & garlic; continue to brown until veggies are clear...don't burn it! add meat back to pot, stir well, then add rotels & tomato sauce. taste and season with hot sauce, worchester & Zatarain's. piquant means "to prick or stickers" in french or "spicy" when applied to food so don't be shy with the seasonings. stir well and simmer for 2-3hrs. the consistnecy should be like a thin lumpy spagetti sauce. serve over rice.
ca c'est bon, oui

I love gator meat. I took two pounds about 5 years ago back to Estonia to my parents. My mom made some awesome gator chops fried in flour. WOW. My whole family loved it and everyone fought for the last piece. I used to live in Jersey back then and it was easy to get in the town called Dover. It is highly populated by Hispanics. I guess this is why they sold it there. Love the meat.

I spent the last 10 days deer huntin' at the camp... and as usual the food & drink is tops
I fixed a pot of garballs & crawfish tails one night in my new cast iron enamal pot and snapped a pic to post here. Ca c'est bon, oui!!!





No deer yet!

I want to go to Louisiana
I once had iguana tail chili, it was by far the best

Hey DU, howz that Louisiana possum-on-the-half-shell stew, I hear it's tasty?

wildcatter wrote:Hey DU, howz that Louisiana possum-on-the-half-shell stew, I hear it's tasty?

I just trapped a possum last week but let it go thinking it wasnt a good eating animal. How do they taste? If they taste good how do you cook them?

Ok... let's get sumtin strate possum ain't on the menu!!!
we eat lots a stuff, but it ain't possums i eat coons, beaver, nutra rats, alligators, frogs, eels, garfish, choupique, minners... but no possums!
the only scavengers i eat or catfish & chickens