Times are tough again. The wife had me go out back to build a fire for some slabs of Heifer she had purchased and then gave me a bag of rocks. Me and my Brother in Law put them on the fire and, low in behold, water began to seep from the rocks. We took a little knife she had provided each of us and opened them up to find some terrible looking organism inside. Being hungry we consumed them, with the gusto of a hound dog, and ended up eating 50 of the things. By the time the Heifer was done, we weren't so sure we were still hungry. :-/
I think I'd like some more of those rocks someday. ;D
Ain't nothing much better than oysters like that. Back when I was dating Donna (1966), I used to go oystering with her family. We'd get back with a croaker sack (That's a burlap sack for you Yanks) full of oysters. They'd fire up the grill and lay a bunch of oysters over the coals. Everyone standing around watching and drooling. As soon as a shell would pop open up a bit, the quickest person would grab it, open it, dip it in hot sauce and chew it up. Those were some good times. Of course we'd be washing it down with some good cold wobbley pop too. 8)
I'd rather eat the rocks than the oysters.(https://forestryforum.com/smile/tongue.gif)
They kinda remind me of tire patches ;D
Jason
It's hard to beat a feed of Oysters loaded up with butter,mind you, with enough butter,even tire patches would taste good.
Jason_WI,
Whats your record for eating tire patches? :D I'll bet they're rubbery :P
OH PUULLEEEEEZZEE !! Ya'll are SISSIES !!!! The onliest way to down ersters is right out of the water. Ya Don'T heat 'em first !!! WHY do ya wanna ruin 'em ??? No wonder they eat like patches. Ersters is delikate !! :D :D :D :D :D :D
I'm with Deadheader, eating them raw with a little cocktail sause and tobasco, is the only way. Cocktail sauce is just ketchup and horseradish for those who don't know what it is.
You mean tire patches taste like that? What brand have you fellows been eating? I want to get me some. :)
I like my food to have a spine. ;)
Well, Bibby, we're so destitute and suffering, trying to get on the Gov. Dole and just trying to make ends meet, living one day at a time, All these porterhouse type slabs and rocks and little shrimpses are the only thing keeping us going. :-/ sigh! :'(
:D
Guess that's why I've been born and raised a couple hundred miles from the sea. We use the little spineless creatures as bait!!
You use mudbugs for bait!!!????? My good man, no self respecting southern boy would pass up crawfish etoufee, or boiled mudbug, or jambali, or,,,,,well, you get the picture, you yanks just got to DanG a refined taste.
Wow! That's a first! I've never been implicated as even remotely being a Yankee! (Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with being a Yankee.) I just don't include bugs in my diet.
On a trip last year we stopped in Monroe, Louisianna and I had my first plate of real etoufee. Man that was good eatin'.
when we got to Memphis I ordered it again but it was not the same or as good. Guess I'll have to visit Louisianna again. Unless of course one of you real southerners would send me an accurate recipe. Wasn't there a thread awhile back about starting a recipe page in the forum?
Look under Knowlege Base / Contents at the top of this page. Lots of stuff there including Food! (https://forestryforum.com/tips/tips.cgi?Food!).
Hey, thanks Bibbyman.
OK all you fine southern gentlemen - get a decent etoufee recipe on there :D
If you do I will post my dad's killer spaghetti meat sauce recipe.
Rocky Mountain Oysters anyone?
A few years ago I went out to Lehigh University to take a course in electron microscopy. They always have this feast for the students and instructors and serve huge platters of oysters and shrimp. I didn't try the oysters (looked kinda raw) but did down a few (16 to be exact) of the biggest shrimp cocktail shrimps I ever did see! This pretty well filled me up and I had a hard time with the main meal. I couldn't figure out what to do with the oysters, the people who were eatin them had funny looks on their faces ???
Mark
Bibbyman, nothing personal, since I am from an area in Mo known as little Dixie. But, yankee is anything north of where we are. You can be in Little Rock and be a yankee! ;D
In re to RM oysters,
If quizes are quizical, what are tests? ??? ::)
Noble
Don, that rule applies everywhere but Florida. Here, the further south you go, the further north you get. Thankfully, I'm about as far north as you can get, and still be in Florida. ;D
Tried raw oysters once. Ate the first one 3 times, so I gazve up.
The trick is to tie a string on it. Then if you don't like it, you can just pull it back up. ;D
I passed up a chance at some good oysters last weekend, so I could fiddle with my mill. I don't think I'll let that happen, next time.
Sure wish I could eat shrimp. I love'em, but they make me bad, bad sick. I developed a sensitivity to them, back in the mid-seventies. I got sick about 4 times before I figgered out what was doing it. Ain't had one since. :'( :'(
Oh no! Did you figure out if it was the shrimp or the iodine or maybe "imported" shrimp? What'cha gonna do in these hard times? ..sniff ........sigh!
Could be any of the above. First time was after a shrimp coctail on an airliner. Got it again from some shrimp dip, but a couple of times were from some pretty good coastal seafood restaurants. Go figger! Hadda go to the ER twice for IV therapy, and that was enough for me.
DanG,
I have a similar sensitivity to chicken. Do you have any idea of how many kinds of edibel products have chicken in them? How about I eat the shrimp and you eat the chicken?
this yankee eats oysters raw. 8) just a little cocktail sauce please. and those little crackers :D why does ya thinks they calls em oyster crackers then. :D
did i mention clams. not the little neck ipschwich kind but the small cohawgs that ya shuck and suck. with just a little cocktail sauce please. and by the way put some horseradish ina the cocktail sauce..........please :D
I just stick a screwdriver into the back of the oyster and pop it open, makes easy work of the rock food. :P
Finally, some REAl men. Can't believe you guys would COOK them fine eatin devils. Clams either raw or chowdered. You're makin me hungry. :D :D ;D ;D :)
I eat raw oysters all the time, but they are great cooked a variety of ways, too. Fried ones are super, and a good oyster stew is hard to beat, but you guys gotta try THIS! Git yerself some ordinary bacon, the cheap, grocery store thin stuff. Cut each slice into about 3 pieces. Lay a big ol' juicy oyster, right outta tha hull, on each slice. Sprinkle them with pepper, and a little salt, if the oysters ain't already salty enough. Roll each one up, and pin it with a toothpick. Pop'em under the broiler for a few minutes, turn'em over, and broil the other side.
Either do this when you are totally alone, or do a whole bunch of'em. They'll disappear fast! ;D
The wife likes them fried too DanG. I prefer them raw. The only this along this line that I do like cooked is steamers. You haven't eaten so good until you've had steamers with fresh drawn butter. Any of you guys ever have raw scallops? I've eaten them right out of the ocean after being dredged up with a buddy of mine in Maine. Sweeter than sweet 8)
raw oysters
raw cherrystone clams
red sauce with horseradish
steamed cherrystone
steamed ipscwich clams
steamed mussels even
drawn butter and broth to wash em in
steamed lobster with drawn butter
scallops broiled or wrapped in bacon
man I am getting hungry just typing. :D
makes ya want to slap your Momma
One of the GREAT things about doing steamers is that you have the left-over clam juice. It is the BEST to add to your clam chowder or lobster stew. It's just way better than the canned or bottkes stuff. I freeze whatever I don't use and it's there waitin when I get a windfall of seafood. We are nuts about chowders- the kind you make with milk and cream. It's excellent when the cow is in milk. lw
Mmmmm Yes. Chowder. I like the white kind the best and especially when somebody lovingly remembered to save some of the escense of a previous meal to make it special.
Ah Man! Food, lovingly prepared and served, is the height of excellance ever reached by the human race and makes a man stay close by his camp. :)
No wonder they've never found a spotted owls in the old south, you guys probably served them all up with grits and raw oysters. :o
DanG, I with you. Can't eat shrimp. Makes me deathly ill. I'm with Bibbyman on this, I will take a big steak with potatoes and gravy anyday. ;D
Bibbyman, grits don't go with bird, less they be quail. Bird goes with dumplins.
Yumm, yum. Spotted owl and grits. Now that's sumpthin to EAT. Almost as good as Bald Eagle with Oyster dressing. ;D
Serve all of those as aside with Manatee steaks, and ya got yerself a treat !!
Dan G the oysters are in the back of my truck.
Deadheader a friend went to the Manatee festival at St. Marks one day and complained all they were serving was hotdogs and hamburgers. Funny looks when he asked for sea cow! :D
Bill, where's yer truck parked? I'll bet I'm within walking distance. ;D
I would rather eat my shoe than an oyster.....Ackkkkk
To each is his own I guess.
Skeeter
Yech! I know what you mean, skeeter. They're terrible. Poison sometimes too. Things get awful tough around here sometimes though and we have to make do with what we can get so if you'll pass me your's I'd certainly appreciate it. ;D
Uh.......thanks. 8)
I eat eggs and I even know where they come from. :D
When me and my in-laws went oysterin', my father-in-law liked to eat some real tiny red crabs he would find on the oyster shell when he'd pull it up. He said they were sweet as candy and he'd crunch up the whole little tiny crab and swaller it. :o I never could bring myself to eat one of those.
By the by (that's English for the U.S. version of By the way), when we threw the oysters on the grill, they weren't cooked, they were just warm. When the heat killed 'em, they relaxed and the shell would crack open. We'd grab 'em, dip 'em and swaller 'em right then and there! 8)
how bout some of you in oyster country pack some in dry ice and send north. Wont be long till Morel Mushroom season may be able to work out a trade. Now I brought it up I wont be able to stop thinking about them mushrooms :o
Morels are good eating, I remember something about morels being linked to the host tree through its mycelium to the tree roots. They come up when there is a thiamin increase in the roots in the spring ???
OOoh, I love morels. Only found them once. I have heard they like hemlock, elm, and wood ash. So naturally these were where I'd put some ash and hemlock barck mulch, by an elm stump that refuses to die. I want to go out and about and put bark mulch and ashes near all my elms. I religiously poured the washwater out from them so any spores would have a chance. But I read up on them, and they are touchy. They tend to start to develop and then drop into a dormant state having formed a mass called a sclerotium- it's an ugly looking thing. There is a subtle interaction of several things that may break this dormancy- the thiamine you mention may be part of it. They mentioned moisture fluctuations as well. Here's hoping they come up again... lw
DanG! I lost my morels out in the woods once and could not bring myself to go back and look for 'em. Life's been much simpler since.
I do love those mushrooms I find out there tho! 8) 8)
Hmmph! I lost mine behind the barn. Went back over and over, but they were gone forever. ;D
Must be lunch break. EH We gotta talk ??????
Hey, forum administrator. Is it really allowed to get a man's mouth slothering and his belly rumbling??? Youse guys have too much fun to be calling it work! I am a Wyoming native who has learned to love the oysters and clams and all that other good sushi and sushimie. Had a wonderful oyster bake in the cedar keys of florida years ago and my mouth is watering - the little dollar clams out of the river south of daytona - food is the wonder. Only heard of morals at a church, never knew you could chow down on them - sounds better than the church way of handling them :D Oh I am so hungry now, I will have to go steelhead fishing tomorrow and try to recover from this thread. Maybe a elk roast or venison stew tonight. Ahhhhhhh the good stuff of life!
I ain't crazy bout Todestools, BUT, I could be talked into a trade of clams or oysters fer a chunk "O" that Elk stuff ?? Anybody lissenin ?? :D :D ANYBODY ?? :)
HEY DEADHEADER
Does anybody in FL eat gator???? Big as them things are ther ought to be a righ fair shot of meat on one.What would it taste like ? Would you bar-b -que one like a pig .wonder what to stuff in its mouth??
Hey Harold,
We have an elk ranch near us and I've seen some of that Elk Stuff on the ground. Want me to go shovel some of it into a bucket for you?
Hey, yeah, Minn-boy. Do me a favor and keep it in yer utility room. and :) I'll be right up to get it!!
Onliest part of that you eat, is the tail, near as I know. I DO know that if ya Don'T cook it just right it tastes like, well, uhhh, some of that there elk stuff!! It will absorb some of the flavor of what yer cookin it in, so, what it tastes like can be altered a lil, but, it tastes a LOT like chiken!! So does froglegs!! ALL that swamp stuff tastes like chiken. ;D
Give me a juicy piece of beef and some taters any day I seen what they dump in those barges off the jersey coast. :o
Fla_Deadheader, that reminds me of the time I was eating some kind of chicken dish in the cafeteria at work. One of the girls sitting at the same table ask me what it was and I told her it was some kind of chicken dish.... Then she asked me what it taste like. I looked at her and said........snake. :D
I've eaten fried gator tail. It was pretty good. Tasted sorta like rattlesnake and that taste sorta like chicken. ;D