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Post by billhammond on Sept 19, 2014 18:15:58 GMT -5
A guy at work gave me some real, Indian-harvested wild rice yesterday -- I have had it before and it is amazing. In pondering what to have it with, it occurred to me that pheasant would be nice, but where to get a pheasant? In Wisconsin, of course, just across the border in Hudson. And a research phone call to the place revealed that they are having a 15-year celebration tomorrow with lots of free food and a PHEASANT POT PIE EATING CONTEST!! Get a load of some of their other stuff -- anyone for pheasant/rattlesnake/jalapeno sausage? www.smgfoods.com/shop/pc/viewContent.asp?idpage=1Marty, Radtke -- road trip? The lady on the phone urged me to get there before 11 ayem. |
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Post by Doug on Sept 19, 2014 18:25:05 GMT -5
Pleasant Pheasant
1 pheasant breast
2 cups of white wine
1 stick 1/4 lb of butter
Oven proof dish
Breast up bones down
wine
cut butter into pats
add water till the breast is almost covered
Spices as desired
Preheated oven at 350
Cook for 20 min.
Or Quick Quail - substitute 3-4 quail breast
Or Hasty Hun - substitute 2 Hungarian Partridge breast
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Post by Doug on Sept 19, 2014 18:28:07 GMT -5
For those that don't know.
hammer 6 penny nail in 3in dowel
hammer head of nail flat into a spade shape
Add a little hook on the point of the spade
Insert into hole the shot made and pull out the shot (helps save the teeth)
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Post by dickt on Sept 19, 2014 18:36:28 GMT -5
Or just shoot them in the head
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Post by billhammond on Sept 19, 2014 18:36:28 GMT -5
For those that don't know. hammer 6 penny nail in 3in dowel hammer had of nail flat into a spade shape Add a little hook on the point of the spade Insert into hole the shot made and pull out the shot (helps save the teeth) Excellent advice, but these birds are apparently not dispatched by gunfire, but rather by some unspecified, presumably non-invasive method. The yak ribeyes look good, too .... |
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Post by billhammond on Sept 19, 2014 18:54:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 19:06:54 GMT -5
Sounds good but I have not completed any income work in almost 2 weeks, I need to get some things done in the morning and do a Podium run in the afternoon.
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Post by PaulKay on Sept 20, 2014 8:57:06 GMT -5
Why don't you pick up some Iguana holes while you are there. Iguana holes |
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Post by Resolve on Sept 20, 2014 10:24:10 GMT -5
My dad was a hunter. I grew up eating plenty of pheasant (and yes, Dad said that a good hunter would only shoot the bird in the head  ). Mom's recipe was to dredge the pieces in flour, brown them and put them in a blue roaster (had to be the blue roaster)with a little water (I think). An hour before serving she poured a carton of cream over the top and returned to the oven. Best gravy EVER. |
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Post by dradtke on Sept 20, 2014 10:55:51 GMT -5
Marty, Radtke -- road trip? The lady on the phone urged me to get there before 11 ayem. Across the street from Fleet Farm? I drive past it at least once a week and I never noticed it. |
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Post by millring on Sept 20, 2014 11:06:58 GMT -5
Ayla killed pheasant with a sling. Apparently she invented the device.
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Post by Resolve on Sept 20, 2014 11:28:11 GMT -5
Ayla killed pheasant with a sling. Apparently she invented the device. I believe her contribution was that she perfected the ability to reload it with speed.  |
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Post by millring on Sept 20, 2014 12:19:54 GMT -5
Ayla killed pheasant with a sling. Apparently she invented the device. I believe her contribution was that she perfected the ability to reload it with speed. You're right, of course. I miss-attributed. I believe she and Jondalar invented the spear thrower. And horseback riding. And birth control. And starting fires with flint and steel. She merely perfected slinging. Ayla was a veritable Cro-Magnon Thomas Edison. She also apparently enjoyed a healthy sex life. |
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Post by t-bob on Sept 20, 2014 14:48:56 GMT -5
This thread crazing brains, grazing food, and gasping my mouth! I like this...
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 20, 2014 21:33:11 GMT -5
So, did you actually go?
If I had known last fall, I would have taken the picture of the first thing I saw and put it on the forum, but I saw it before I saw the second, so thought the picture would just gross everyone out and never took it.
I filled the state car with gas in Anamosa, IA, walked out and next to me was a small pickup truck, it's bed full of dead coons. Up to the brim with those things. That's the first picture I did not take. After working with my student there I was leaving town and there was a sign that read "Anamosa annual racoon feed" with the date, which was October something. That's when I regretted not taking picture of what I had seen before. Would have been an interesting sequence.
On a side note, racoon actually isn't bad meat at all. Maybe it's because of the mulberries that they fight with Marshall over every year. It's dark, moist, and has a nice flavor. But to make them into a town feed, now that's a bit too weird.
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 20, 2014 21:48:20 GMT -5
Grandfather Peters had a farm/ranch with date palms. The dates were a cash crop. The coons were competitors for the dates. He'd go out in the evening with a flashlight and shotgun and kill every one he could. But that was different. I like coons.
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 20, 2014 21:54:53 GMT -5
Coons are the enemy here as well. There are lots of them, and they eat up stuff. I've managed, however, by sheer luck, to set up my game camera in places where they congregate, and it's all pretty interesting.
In Arizona, do they have coatis? I imagine them as the southwest coon, but I might be wrong.
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 20, 2014 22:34:33 GMT -5
I've seen only one coati, in the far southeast, in the Chiricahua Mountains. Came over a rise and we saw each other. I suspect we were both thinking what the hell is that? They're mostly a Mexican species but there are some here. Coons are much more common.
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Post by RickW on Sept 21, 2014 0:30:37 GMT -5
We have raccoons, skunks and coyotes by the truckload. They live all over urban Vancouver. All three are excellent at living off of the things we leave around. We also stopped filling in ravines, (lots of them in a place that has a ton of rain and mountains,) and now protect said ravines, providing corridors for the wildlife to roam.
It's not a wise idea to have an outside cat. They get eaten. We see coyotes and raccoons all the time. Don't see the skunks as much, just smell them when they get run over.
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Post by epaul on Sept 21, 2014 0:32:43 GMT -5
Ayla killed pheasant with a sling... It wasn't a sling. And it was able to throw a stone the size of a softball. (She used to wear it, but it was best kept at the ready.) |
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). Mom's recipe was to dredge the pieces in flour, brown them and put them in a blue roaster (had to be the blue roaster)with a little water (I think). An hour before serving she poured a carton of cream over the top and returned to the oven. Best gravy EVER. 
