Posted on 08/08/2019 5:02:28 AM PDT by w1n1
Yeah. I hear you. My calabrese grandmother(father’s mother)would always have a pot of sauce with any manner of meat in it. But not a farm. An apartment in the Bronx. A neighbor down the street from my mother(whose parents were napolitano)when she was growing up used to sit out in the backyard (a few blocks away. From my grandmother’s) with a BB gun shooting songbird. When she questioned him, Mr Ricci would say “ah, it’s a good for the gravy” (what we used to call sauce back in the day In The Bronx)
Me too. We live and let live around here. We don’t shoot anything that is not dangerous to us or our dogs. Still, they are good eating from what I hear if we ever fall on hard times. :-)
If the time comes I’ll do what I have to do. Until then I’ll do what I want to do.
I would advise against the raccoons... Some call them TRASH Pandas...
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I’ve cooked and eaten raccoon.
1) boil in 2-3 changes of water after cutting off all the exterior fat.
2) layer with chunks of peeled sweet potato and cover the contents with bacon.
3) roast @350 until bacon and sweet potatoes are done. (long time ago, so I don’t recall time).
Tender, flavorful, rich dark meat. A little satisfies.
“Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it.”
Yep. Ate lots of different game, including snake and turtle. Found gator and duck nothing special. I’d try bbq whistle pig no problem.
Me too. We don’t kill anything unless we’re forced.
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