You should put him in custardy!
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Thanksgiving dinner at moose camp in northern ontario, smoked turkey and grouse. Cranberry sauce was to die for, I think he added cinammon and something else. No veggies for me, all killer no filler.
Pic shows the two uwaterloo students I brought along this year, plus a third whoās working up here who dropped by camp for Thanksgiving (heās gone backwoods camping with me before).
I let the students rip around on my atv. The fellow from Taiwan got so far then turned around because he was worried about getting stuck. The Arabic fellow hit the atv in front of him because he was driving with one hand, recording a video with the other lol.
Cold and bleak in the bush right now, feeling like snow. Parked in a meadow til dark, freezing my ass off waiting for a moose to saunter by.
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Great now I know what you look like. Youāve ruined my mental image Iāve conjured up for you.
Was it something like this?
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My brother just bought a house and will be closing in early November, will probably either end up over there with my giant ass family, or else we will just skip the big meal and do it with our immediate family only (4 people).
Thankfully this thread does not have smellivision capabilities
Your giant-ass family, or your giant ass-family?
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Did you shoot the grouse yourself? Iām not sure whether Iāve had grouse. I had some game bird a friend shot, but i donāt remember whether it was grouse or pheasant. It was good, whatever it was.
Thatās a tough choice.
Yes but with an astronaut helmet.
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The students shot the grouse. I didnāt shoot this week, I was mentoring the students so they carried guns and I didnāt.
You probably had grouse. Grouse is unbelievably delicious, like chicken but tasty. Pheasant imo is meh, and I donāt think itās native other than in the Midwest anyway.
I have never eaten grouse and would be interested in trying it.
I have never eaten mouse and would not be interested in trying it.
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Iāve eaten turtle I think
I would try pretty much anything once, but Iām not going to go out of my way to hunt/kill something for the opportunity, I am fine with never participating in that activity. If someone else had killed something already and offered it to me, sure, Iāll give it a nibble.
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That was my motto until about age 60. I used to travel a lot to Africa in the 1980ās on business and felt I needed to sample everything my hosts offered: pigeon, goatās eyes (not recommended), crocodile, camel, zebra, etc. Most of it was good but I no longer agree with harvesting most of these animals.
In Canada, I have eaten wild game such as partridge, moose, venison, bison, Canada Goose (not recommended), wild turkey, etc., but in my largely vegetarian family those items donāt get served at home: only have them occasionally in restaurants.
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Yuck to most of that, although I have eaten squab which I believe is the fancy name for a pigeon. That tasted fine but not very much meat there. I went to Africa once on business and 3 times for pleasure and never got offered any of those other things. I did try some South african sausages that had some game meat, which I think included some kudu.
Iāve eaten turtle at least once: the turtle soup at Commanderās Palace is famous. Iāve also had some of the typical large game animals in the US: bison, elk, venison, boar,ā¦never had any moose though.
Another weird meat Iāve eaten: piranha. We caught them and the guide had them cooked for us.
I like to try new meats. In addition to beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and turkey, Iāve had turtle, crocodile, alligator, kudu, springbok, some other antelope, warthog (not recommended), wild boar, deer, reindeer (not recommended), moose, elk, bison, ostrich, duck, goose, afore-mentioned game bird, squab, and a lot of species of fish.
I expect the sale of many of the meat offerings I had in Africa in the 1980ās is now banned, and rightly so. I just went to the website for The Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi, where I sampled a variety of African game in 1981, and they now only serve farm animal meats plus crocodile. I recall crocodile tasted like chicken so it was pretty tame.