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Liza
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Posted: Wed Mar 7th, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Rick: That's funny about the allegator meat. We went to a restaurant several years ago in the Everglades where they had allegator on the menu. We opted not to go with it since the waitress did not give it a plug when we asked.
I hope it's ok to post a breakfast /dessert bread? And it's keeping with the season...
Irish Soda Bread
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup margarine or butter
2 cups currants or seedless raisins
1 egg
1 3/4 cup buttermilk
Combine the first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Add butter or margarine and cut until crumbly with pastry cutter or 2 knives. Mix in currants. Beat egg mixture into dry ingredients and stir until blended. Turn out onto floured board and knead until smooth, 2-3 minutes. Divided dough in half and shape into rounds. Place each loaf in an 8" cake pan or on a cookie sheet. Press down and cut crosses on top, 1/2 inch deep. Bake at 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
Last edited on Wed Mar 7th, 2007 10:56 pm by Liza
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 01:40 am |
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susiedear wrote: So, Rick, did you go out your back door this morning and pick up an alligator?
Had to ask -- the recipe sounds interesting, but not MN friendly!
I do not walk out my back door to find an alligator.
He lives in the bayou, which is outside my front door.
However, it is illegal to kill an alligator without a special alligator tag. It is still a protected species. If you find an alligator that is causing a problem, you have to call the official alligator hunter who will trap and relocate him if possible, and kill him only if necessary. The one in the bayou across the street from my house stays in the bayou and is not a problem at this time. He's about 5 feet long and growing. (I am not kidding.)
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Liza
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 02:40 am |
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Rick: Allegators are not so much protected anymore here in Fl as they are showing up in folks backyards with lakes. You can get a license to kill them now. Florida is being overrun by them and very dangerous to our pets and humans trying to save their pets from them in back yards.
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Liza
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 02:44 am |
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Sonny and I took a drive through the Everglades a few years ago on a very lonely dirt road. We didn't know what we were about to embark. There was no turning around to go back...we just needed to keep going forward. There were allegators everywhere. I was very nieve and got up close to take a few pictures. Knowing what I do today, I would have never chanced this because the animal is very fast and sly. I will post a picture of one I caught up close.
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susiedear
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 11:47 am |
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Oh, my goodness, Rick and Liza. I think I'll keep my heiny here in the frozen tundra known as Minnesota! Thanks for the chuckle and the photos. Yikes!
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 01:46 pm |
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About 10 years ago we had a particularly rainy year (I think around 150" of rain, compared to a more normal 125 in a typical year) and we had a lot of flooding. One night I drove over a log and my wife opened the car door to try to roll the log out of the way. Well, the log moved by itself. It was about 8 feet long with a whole bunch of teeth. Fortunately, they're more afraid of us than we are of them, as long as they're not cornered.
Alligator licenses are available here, too. They have been removed from the endangered species list, but are still "protected" which means only a limited number may be taken by licensed hunters. Every parish has an alligator hunter for nuisance gators like the ones who tend to eat pets or show up in our yards, and only he can kill a gator out of season or without a tag (except in self-defense, of course).
Now is a particularly bad time for gators. They're just waking up, and they're HUNGRY.
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 04:58 pm |
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You can cross Lousiana off my vacation list. YIKES!
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 05:37 pm |
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susiedear wrote: You can cross Lousiana off my vacation list. YIKES!
It's OK as long as you stay away from the deserted, swampy areas! You'll never see an alligator in town and extremely rarely near major highways. Remember that was a record rainfall year! I've lived here for 55 years, and I've only seen an alligator on a road like that a couple of times; the first time, he was dead.
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Liza
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Posted: Thu Mar 8th, 2007 10:23 pm |
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| Sonny has seen a few on the golf courses where he plays. But, you are right Rick, they will not willfully attack unless provoked. They seem to enjoy laying at the edge of a lake sunning. But when they get hungry and see a small doggie or kitty watch out. We had one in our lake and had to call the authorities to come out to capture him. But I have yet to taste allegator meat so don't know what it's like. Do you like it Rick? What's it like...chicken, as I've been told.
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Posted: Fri Mar 9th, 2007 12:09 am |
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Liza wrote: But I have yet to taste allegator meat so don't know what it's like. Do you like it Rick? What's it like...chicken, as I've been told.
It's kind of tough, as there is not a lot of fat in an alligator tail. Fried, it tastes a bit like overcooked chicken, or a chicken tender that's been sitting under the heat lamps too long: rather tough but not bad, especially with a good barbeque sauce or lots of ketchup. It's excellent in a courtbuillion or sauce piquant. It would probably be good in a stew or gumbo if you prepared it like a hen or stewing chicken rather than a fryer. It would probably be very good in a crock pot slow-cooked for a whole day, maybe in a barbeque sauce or in onion soup mix. It would not be good barbequed, but smoked might be OK. It does not taste like other reptiles or amphibians I've tasted. It really is more like chicken, and does not have a gamey taste like most wild meat.
It might be better fried if it was marinated overnight in a tenderizer first.
I've never tried farm-raised gator, so I don't know if would be any more tender (tenderer?).
Gators are cold-blooded (which is why they're not considered meat), so they soak up the sun to gain body temperature, which makes them more active in the water. They get sluggish when their body temperature is low, which makes it harder to catch their prey. Small animals and even small children can be at risk in areas of high gator infestation, but they will not attack a toddler, teen, or grown up unless cornered. Still, I would not sunbathe in gator country. The chances of freezing to death in a Minnesota winter are much greater than the odds of being attacked by an alligator.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23rd, 2007 09:34 pm |
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We have been eating a lot more veggies these days and since my wife's last stroke, I have been doing the cooking of them. I grew up learning how to boil veggies in water, then pour the water off and eat them. Recently, our younger daughter showed us how to put the veggies in a microwaveable bowl, add some small pieces of butter (the real stuff) around the top, cover the bowl and microwave it for as long as it takes to cook the amount of veggies in the bowl. (Our amounts, for the two of us, takes about +-2 minutes.) The butter has a little salt in it so we don't need to add salt to the veggies and I don't pour the vitamins down the drain as I used to. 
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