Hurricane Advice

[Kiki]

Yes..I forgot the cilantro!

 

[Kiki]

I'm out y'all.
WAY passed my bedtime.
I hope everyone has an at least ok night.
Sleep well.

 

[rjohns39]

ok folks, too many posts here to quote. First, my apologies to all who suffered Irma's wrath... She showed up here with 4mph winds and a drizzle.

Frog legs. no they don't taste like chicken, not if you grow your own chicken. but they are good and I still buy them from the Cajun grocer.

Alligator, same as above...

Sushi I had a very simple approach: I don't eat bait! I was sharpening a 5th grade class on a field trip in japan. The kids were finally in bed and it was grown up time. As I sat at the bar with a crown on the rocks and a beer, one of the Japanese chaperones joined me. We started our conversation about the day and the kids and the cultural differences. It was a good chat, then the hotel owner brought in 20.000 yen worth of sushi... Remember the whole thing about I don't eat bait???? My new friends went crazy over the platters, me,I just looked at them... Finally I was goated into trying some bait.

It was good. Today, sushi, raw oyster, are all good... funny how you can change once properly introduced.

 

[Crooked Chicken]

I had deep fried gator tail once -- it was part an appetizer trio with calamari and clams. I found it okay, but anything deep fried tastes good to me. Have had beef tongue sandwich years ago and it was good. When I was little, my brother and I would fight over the last pickled pigs foot -- more of a game than because they were so tasty. They are disgusting and I would never eat one now. I've never had conch that I know of, but I have heard it is tasty. Sushi in Japan is really delicious and super fresh.

Jeria -- I wish we had some really good Mexican food here (in Mexico Missouri!). There are 2 restaurants that are okay, but the tacos in this town are awful. I make my own. I don't eat menudo - bleh it smells awful. I do love fresh deep fried pork rinds, but not the kind you buy near the potato chips. I'm from the state of California and everywhere you go there are so many really great Mexican restaurants.

I am pretty sure I will never eat frog legs. Especially not from any bullfrogs on my property because they swim in the septic pond here - ewwwww......

 

[Kiki]

ok folks, too many posts here to quote. First, my apologies to all who suffered Irma's wrath... She showed up here with 4mph winds and a drizzle.

Frog legs. no they don't taste like chicken, not if you grow your own chicken. but they are good and I still buy them from the Cajun grocer.

Alligator, same as above...

Sushi I had a very simple approach: I don't eat bait! I was sharpening a 5th grade class on a field trip in japan. The kids were finally in bed and it was grown up time. As I sat at the bar with a crown on the rocks and a beer, one of the Japanese chaperones joined me. We started our conversation about the day and the kids and the cultural differences. It was a good chat, then the hotel owner brought in 20.000 yen worth of sushi... Remember the whole thing about I don't eat bait???? My new friends went crazy over the platters, me,I just looked at them... Finally I was goated into trying some bait.

It was good. Today, sushi, raw oyster, are all good... funny how you can change once properly introduced.

What tha......you have a cajun grocer up there?
We only have Mexican and Asian down here...NO FAIR.

 

[rjohns39]

They are on-line. Sell mud bugs, gator, turducken, and the like. I may have left Louisiana, but not the food. Manudo (sp) and eggs "rancho????" what a great breakfast. Properly seasoned tongue in a taco... WOW! Remember, I like to eat!

 

[rjohns39]

What tha......you have a cajun grocer up there?
We only have Mexican and Asian down here...NO FAIR.

Here ya go... I love these guys. Good food all the time.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I eat little meat as is. No tripe, Meunendo, (I always spell it wrong) no tongue, no mountain oysters. no no no. I would for sure gag on tongue, I know I do on liver. Am making green tomatillo salsa and chicken enchiladas for a work food day on Friday.

Green tomatillo salsa and chicken enchiladas sounds great, where do you work? So I can come eat there Friday. LOL (just a joke, I really don't want to know where you work)

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Best Mexican food I have ever eaten was at a hole in the wall resturant and bar next to a cemetary in El Paso. ( that includes meals in Mexico!)

 

[User395221]

Ha, funny change of discussion. I've just come back from the supermarket. It's an asian-type supermarket and it sells a lot of "foreign" food. There were all sorts of "weird" things in the butcher counter.... chicken feet, pig's blood sick)
My mother used to make steak and kidney and I hated kidney. She'd pick it out so I didn't notice and tell me it was normal stew. And then I'd discover a piece...... Not pretty!
She used to like lamb's fry and bacon. Yucko.
I used to work in a kitchen once and we were allowed to help ourselves to any leftover/extra food. One of the girls looked at the menu board and it said 'mock salmon' so she tried it and went "yum" until she was told that she was eating fried brains (the menu board hadn't been changed from the day before).
In the "olden days", people ate more of the "yucky bits" because they were cheaper. It doesn't seem as common any more (here, anyway, I'm sure country people don't waste so much).

I'm a bit of a "fussy" eater, but if I was cut off in a hurricane and gator was on the menu, I'd gobble it down in a heartbeat. Being fussy is a luxury.