Agree on the binding. My first one fell apart, but I use that edition all the time so I bought a second copy.
The problem is that I am one of those monsters who write notes in my cookbooks…and the old one is full of tweaks and yields. (Can be doubled- this is delicious- don’t bother)
My favorite page is the roast turkey page. It has the weight of the turkeys I’ve made for years of Thanksgiving dinners jotted in the margins.
NEVER have I eaten squirrel … This is repulsive in thought !
My my …
While I haven’t eaten squirrel either, I’d most certainly try it if offered to me. It’s supposed to be rather nutty in flavor, based on what squirrels themselves eat, sometimes described as a hybrid between chicken and rabbit. That honestly doesn’t sound bad to me at all.
Alligator meat, turtle soup, snails (all three I’ve tried and all three are very good!), grasshoppers and other fried insects and spiders, tripe, haggis, frog’s legs, testicles, rattlesnake, tuna eyeballs, horsemeat, balut eggs, ANY form of offal - all are I’m sure repulsive to some (many of those are a no-go for me), but they are delicacies to others.
Anthony Bourdain tried virtually everything offered to him in his travels, including what he deemed the most wretched thing: fermented shark (hákarl). He called it “the single worst, most disgusting, and terrible-tasting thing.” He also managed to choke down a bite of warthog anus, as he wanted to show respect to the chief of the tribe who offered it to him.
So one person’s yuck is another’s yum. OR it’s how the hunter and their family survive (squirrel and opossum).
It took me so long to get over the idea of what I was eating, but I eventually bit the bullet and tried it, and it’s quite good! Like a shot of super concentrated duck soup, and while the yolk looks like a Frankenstein science experiment, it tastes just like a normal yolk.
The great thing about baluts is that you never have to answer the question, “which came first the chicken or the egg?”
Or in this case, “the duck or the egg?”
We’ve certainly gotten off topic, haven’t we? LOL
I was thinking that too! And this thread was after one about corn flour went off!
I located it now.
No interest in rodents, insects or reptiles, horses, donkies, sheep or lambs amongst other things and never happen Dear.
Each to his or her own !!! Have a nice evening.
You guys and gals think I am joking?
Traditional Brunswick Stew, Hasenpfeffer or fried just like Chicken Squirrel is delicious.
If it you were given it you, you wouldn’t know it wasn’t Rabbit or Farm Yard (real) Chicken. .
What makes a Squirrel “repulsive” and a Rabbit delicious?
How many bunnies end up as roadkill?
Columbo eats squirrel chili! Around 1:00.
Squirrels can carry–and transmit–Kreuzfeldt Jakob disease as well as rabies and other unpleasant things. If you are offered to taste squirrel, it might be better to refuse.
Many animals can carry BSE including Cows. Do not eat Brains or Spinal Tissue or Squirrels that appear to be drunk and your risk is pretty low.
From the CDC “Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies”
Ditto. My husband grew up eating squirrel, rabbit, quail, etc., as his father hunted. My parents didn’t hunt, but our next door neighbor did, and kept my mother well supplied with venison and the occasional cut of beaver or other odd critter. Elk, moose and other large game are also commonplace in Michigan (my native state). All quite delicious if cooked properly.
Not only did we eat squirrel (I only remember that a couple of times, admit was chicken-ish) quail, pheasant, duck, and rabbit, my father brought back a deer every year. We are nearly everything, and the hides were tanned for gloves and purse. (My father hunted and believed that if you killed it you were beholden to the animal to use everything possible)
It served me well…when. I grew up and began to feel my hunger for travel, I am fearless at trying almost anything put on front of me at least once. (I have to confess I am not sure I could face balut).
None I haven’t seen any rabbit roadkill. Driving 2 miles into town I’m guaranteed to see at least 3 squirrels
Food for the ravens
I don’t know about KJD, but DO know that while in theory, ANY mammal can contract rabies, squirrels do so rarely, if ever. As a child, I was bitten by a squirrel and all the doctor did was cauterize the wound, because, he said, rabies was not an issue. Also, while cooking does not destroy prions, the cause of KJD, it does kill viruses, and rabies is a viral disease.
Well, in 45 years of driving, I’m responsible for two rabbits, one squirrel, and one chipmunk. And I cried over every one of them.
Well, perhaps I was thinking of squirrel brains, based on this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/29/us/kentucky-doctors-warn-against-a-regional-dish-squirrels-brains.html
But I would still avoid it.
