Posted on 07/24/2012 3:55:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
On our first trip to Jamaica I tried curried goat for the first time. Now I crave the stuff.
My problem was I tried fixing it like beef and it didn’t turn out very good.....like venison, I don’t like it either, but one of my son’s makes venision to die for...delicious..its all in the knowledge of each type of meat I guess, for me its pork and beef. Now fishing is a different story. Love broiled trout and it only takes a few minutes...broil on one side until the eye turns white turn and do the other side...only takes minutes..recently had blackened white fish at a restaurant....DELICIOUS AND SPICY...
I haven’t tried preparing it myself, mostly because I don’t have a source for fresh goat...yet. I recently tried the Indian version of the dish and while it’s tasty, it’s not near as good as the version I had in Jamaica.
They are both curries, but they use different spice mixtures. In both versions the goat is fall off the bone tender, though.
OK, now I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow. LOL.
My best to you, ma’am.
Yum!
I’ve only had it twice-once in a restaurant and once years ago from someone’s backyard. The backyard was BBQ’d and was the best but that was so long ago I don’t know the details. As to the other it was a Mexican-type restaurant(called US Bar Y Grill, or something similar), the goat was char-grilled and was quite tasty.
The only time I’ve ever had mutton I found it VERY greasy. The goat I’ve had was almost dry it had so little fat in it. I guess if a goat was penned up and fed corn for 30 days like we do our beef then a goat done the same way would be just as good. But I’d just as soon rather have a Porterhouse anyways, LOL!
“The goat I’ve had was almost dry it had so little fat in it.”
I grilled goat burgers a friend brought from his farm. He must has mixed in a lot of fat because they set the grill afire like the cheapest hamburger meat would.
that better be a pile of turds and not any goat I know...:O)
Venison usually has very little fat(unless they live near south Georgia peanut fields where they become fat as hogs!) so the more it’s cooked the drier and tougher it becomes.
I usually just keep the backstraps for the grill and grind the rest up into burger. Most processors will add pork fat to venison burger around here.
I learned the air compressor skinning method from a local Mennonite butcher and used it on several of the wild hogs we killed around here. My dad and I made some of the best sausage I’ve ever eaten and fresh link sausage grilled over mesquite charcoal is heavenly!!!
Then one day I found a flat worm crawling out of one sow’s spine as I was field dressing it. Needless to say I haven’t eaten any wild pig since...
Even our dog wouldn't eat the venison I cooked and thats no lie.....Up here in Michigan all the deer are corn fed from all the farmers fields, farmers and landscaper nurserys don't like them too well....I asked at the local nursury what the best way of keeping deer from eating all your landscaping, he said a 12 or 20 gage works well...
I found a tape worm about 6 inches long hanging out of the butt of one of our kids, yuk...had to find a wormer that killed tapeworms, different wormer would kill blood worms so we wormed every 3-4 months with a different wormer, 2 weeks later wormed again to get the newly hatched eggs. Taking care of animals is such fun....One of my bantum roosters got eye worms and 1/2 of his head ended up larger than the other half....that was a mercy killing...
With Angora goats your not after the meat but the mohair they shear twice a year...a heavy load of worms can cut down on the amount and condition of the mohair so we keeped up on worming and delousing....
One season our professional shearer got a little peeved at us, one of the goats was lousy with lice and he let us know we missed him at delousing time..he told us that the lice were species specific and they don't hang around people for long, they just die and fall off. (thank god as I had to hand sort some of the mohair for special customers that made doll wigs) I loved farming and miss it even after 20 years... GG
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