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Greater Basilisk wrote:
Did you guys know that barnacles are edible? Because I didn’t. It took me a while to figure out how to get to the edible part, and I only found out they were barnacles afterwards. They’re not half bad.
How were you served them in the first place? I mean how did you have them to eat without knowing what they were first?
We were served a big dish of various cold seafoods. Lobster, shrimp, oysters, snails… And barnacles.
I can just see myself wrestling with dead sea creatures….beating them against the table, trying to gnaw on it to get to the food!!! 😆 😆 How DO you get to the edible part?
purplecat wrote:I can just see myself wrestling with dead sea creatures….beating them against the table, trying to gnaw on it to get to the food!!! 😆 😆 How DO you get to the edible part?
😆 😆 I’d love to see that!
They usually give you the right utensils to break them open. At least anywhere I’ve had them they have. Never had barnacles though 😉We had utensils, but I think barnacles are finger food. That’s how ate them anyway. You tear an arm away from the base and pull out the pale flesh inside with your teeth.
(This is why I love seafood. You gotta work to get at the edible parts.)I’ve done elk, bison, and ostrich before. Very yummy! I like dipping carrots in pizza sauce. My dad got me into taking little baby kosher dill pickles and wrapping american cheese (deli style, not the fake individually wrapped stuff, or other mild cheddar – though I suppose a sharp cheddar would be ok too, just a slightly different flavor) around the pickle and eating it. It’s suprisingly good. The acidity of the pickle is balanced by the cheese. Weird 😯 I’ve also learned to put honey on a peppersteak (without or without cheese). The honey sweetens the green peppers. The honey doesn’t really stand out. I was very surprised when someone showed me this and I’ve been doing it since (I generaly don’t eat cheesesteaks and some days my stomach can’t stand the peppers on their own, so this helps take the bite out of them a little).
Rocky Mountain oysters (Rocky Mountain tendergroin, etc.) isn’t too bad either. Grosses all my male friends out *snicker*
Hm, plain pickle and cheese. I’ve eaten them together on bread, but I never thought to try them by themselves.
My Mom makes something she calls Olive Balls. They’re basically a cheese pastry wrapped around green olives and baked. A few years ago she varied the recipe by using garlic stuffed Olives and small dill pickles.
Very Tasty.
I like to put a little cream cheese on mine or dip them in Dijon 😆We eat squirrels in the fall, if I’m lucky. They taste like– no joke– chicken. It’s very akin to eating chicken wings.
My mother’s side of the family is Lebanese so we eat a lot of Lebanese food. It’s similar to Greek food. One thing she makes, Yuhbaduhs (I honestly don’t know if it is spelled like this… I’ve never seen it written down, only spoken!!) are wild grapeleaves we harvest, and we wrap them around meat mixed with rice then cooked in a pot of lemon juice. That may not sound gross but when they are done cooking, they look like something you leave in the toilet! I used to take them to school as a kid in my lunch (they’re very delicious) and the other kids would tease me for eating ‘poop’!
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My art: featherdust.comJennifer wrote:We eat squirrels in the fall, if I’m lucky. They taste like– no joke– chicken. It’s very akin to eating chicken wings.
My mother’s side of the family is Lebanese so we eat a lot of Lebanese food. It’s similar to Greek food. One thing she makes, Yuhbaduhs (I honestly don’t know if it is spelled like this… I’ve never seen it written down, only spoken!!) are wild grapeleaves we harvest, and we wrap them around meat mixed with rice then cooked in a pot of lemon juice. That may not sound gross but when they are done cooking, they look like something you leave in the toilet! I used to take them to school as a kid in my lunch (they’re very delicious) and the other kids would tease me for eating ‘poop’!
We use to eat squirrel every fall too! That was in MI.
Now we live in GA and the last time I had squirrel was
thee last time I had squirrel. Skinny nasty tasting little things. Not worth the effort. At least the few we had were.
I’d love to try your Yuhbadahs ( makes me think of the Flinstones for some reason) 😆 Wonder if I could find it online?
*wanders off to lookI found tons of recipes. Too bad I don’t have grape leaves 😆 I will be trying one of them soon.
Heres a link to one with a picture.
Your right they do look like poop!! 😆
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_34677,00.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolma
Found a link to it. There are soooo many ways to cook stuffed grape leaves and just as many names to call it. I’ve only ever had them at Greek-run diners, but they didn’t have meat in them. Couldn’t find anything with a name like you mentioned, but considering how many names, then add dialects. It’s possible one of the spellings is pronounced differently too. They look a little icky on a plate, but smell and taste so good!
My dad used to hunt pheasant. Pheasant is, sadly, a bit hard to come by in NYS compared to some other locations (my dad is from Iowa… lots more open fields and grassland for them). I got one by shear chance and brought it home. My mom wasn’t thrilled but my dad looked at me like, “You got what?!? Where?” and proceeded to help me clean and prepare it. I still have quite a few feathers from it. It’s quite tasty. Never had squirrel (we just fatten them up here with all the bird feeders), but my dad says it’s good. Another game meat on my ‘to try’ list. I wish I could get one of the numerous turkey I see running around in the fields near here. Never at the right time 😡
purplecat wrote:Oh…um…a dish I call Roadkill Hash….cause it looks so gross on the plate, but tastes good….It has a base layer of hashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, mushrooms, onions and sausage. Fried up together and dumped on your plate. Then you put shredded cheese over it.
WOW! I have actually had that concoction *sp My daughter loves to eat ketchup with everything. green beans, mashed potatoes, anything…
siberakh1 wrote:Found a link to it. There are soooo many ways to cook stuffed grape leaves and just as many names to call it. I’ve only ever had them at Greek-run diners, but they didn’t have meat in them. Couldn’t find anything with a name like you mentioned, but considering how many names, then add dialects. It’s possible one of the spellings is pronounced differently too. They look a little icky on a plate, but smell and taste so good!
My dad used to hunt pheasant. Pheasant is, sadly, a bit hard to come by in NYS compared to some other locations (my dad is from Iowa… lots more open fields and grassland for them). I got one by shear chance and brought it home. My mom wasn’t thrilled but my dad looked at me like, “You got what?!? Where?” and proceeded to help me clean and prepare it. I still have quite a few feathers from it. It’s quite tasty. Never had squirrel (we just fatten them up here with all the bird feeders), but my dad says it’s good. Another game meat on my ‘to try’ list. I wish I could get one of the numerous turkey I see running around in the fields near here. Never at the right time 😡
Soo, this may sound silly, but do you eat the leaves? I assummed so but thought I better ask first 😳 😆
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