[ Culinary Adventures ] So I bought some goat this morning…

[GuyGene]

Wow, we got some cooks here! I've been eating goat since way back, but not as much lately. Hard to find here.

I'll give ye my possum recipe:

Catch live possum, put in pen for two weeks to clean him out.
Skin, etc. possum, prepare pot.
Get a red brick (must be red) to set in bottom of pot. Brick absorbs possum fat.
SLOWLY simmer possum and preferred seasoning in pot for about 7-8 hours.
Drain excess moisture from pot, throw away possum and eat brick.

I ain't nary cook, but I am a professional eater.

[vision63]

Man, you guys can cook really good stuff. mmm

[haikuman]

vision63 wrote:
Man, you guys can cook really good stuff. mmm

We learned from your recent posts vision63 *(:>*

[eustacetilley]

GuyGene wrote:
Wow, we got some cooks here! I've been eating goat since way back, but not as much lately. Hard to find here.

I'll give ye my possum recipe:

Catch live possum, put in pen for two weeks to clean him out.
Skin, etc. possum, prepare pot.
Get a red brick (must be red) to set in bottom of pot. Brick absorbs possum fat.
SLOWLY simmer possum and preferred seasoning in pot for about 7-8 hours.
Drain excess moisture from pot, throw away possum and eat brick.

I ain't nary cook, but I am a professional eater.

From your very first possum, I knew where you were going. I've done that... recipe... myself.

I once knew a goatherd.

He made a living moving his goats around; they ate whatever the local Fire Department took a distaste to. He and his dog lived in this very beat up caravan. Watching that old mongrel, (The dog, not the Goatherd), move on pavement was painful. But once out in the fields, the dog was a pup, responding to every whistle and brisk Basque command as only a dog conditioned by many generations of training can.
I was once invited to a dinner in the caravan. A rare treat. We had goat stew. Now, for a Basque, the chef was quite Irish. Meat, salt and pepper, a variety of root vegetables, stewed for a few hours or a few days, and you have Irish Stew. Only with goat, instead of mutton.

When the fields were reduced to stub, the goatherd moved on. He hooked his caravan and goat trailer up to the most outrageous, shiny, massive truck that you can imagine, and he and his goats went elsewhere. It turns out that being a goatherd nowadays can be a very lucrative profession. I can quite understand $6.99 a pound.

Eustace

[GuyGene]

That sounds like a good stew! I've seen goatherds in Pakistan, living just like their ancestors for thousands of years. People said they don't live very long though, very tough life. They always had to camp where there was water.

[freeradical]

I've never eaten goat, but I've had goat cheese.

One interesting thing about goat milk is that it doesn't need to be homogenized.

[TheCaber]

Wait...what was that story about the harbor lads and the well-hung goat again?!?
They were testing the depth of the water or something and the rope broke?