If you live in Illinois, "What's for dinner?" just became easier

[Back to Nature]

At least it isn't wasted meat.

 

[Chic-N-Farmer's]

I came here looking for new dinner ideas! Not exactly what I was hoping for.

 

[Goatherd]

I came here looking for new dinner ideas! Not exactly what I was hoping for.

Awe, com'on! Be adventurous!

 

[Chic-N-Farmer's]

I caught a possum in my chicken house Friday. My 9 year old daughter asked "Are we going to eat it?"

 

[Goatherd]

If it was good enough for Granny Clampett, it should be good enough for you to whip up a nice pot of possum stew!

 

[marlowmanor]

My dad has cooked possum before. He won't eat them unless they were trapped live and he has a chance to flush them out by feeding them bread and milk for a week or so. We had a possum here that we were trying to capture and if we had caught it live my dad would have taken it to eat. Turned out we ended up shooting it when we spotted it. Dad said he wouldn't take one freshly killed since possums will eat anything and everything. When he fattens them up it gives time for all the crazy stuff they eat to get out of their system and not taint the meat.

 

[Chic-N-Farmer's]

My dad has cooked possum before. He won't eat them unless they were trapped live and he has a chance to flush them out by feeding them bread and milk for a week or so. We had a possum here that we were trying to capture and if we had caught it live my dad would have taken it to eat. Turned out we ended up shooting it when we spotted it. Dad said he wouldn't take one freshly killed since possums will eat anything and everything. When he fattens them up it gives time for all the crazy stuff they eat to get out of their system and not taint the meat.

Think I will wait until the road-kill beef shows up.

 

[marlowmanor]

My dad has cooked possum before. He won't eat them unless they were trapped live and he has a chance to flush them out by feeding them bread and milk for a week or so. We had a possum here that we were trying to capture and if we had caught it live my dad would have taken it to eat. Turned out we ended up shooting it when we spotted it. Dad said he wouldn't take one freshly killed since possums will eat anything and everything. When he fattens them up it gives time for all the crazy stuff they eat to get out of their system and not taint the meat.

Think I will wait until the road-kill beef shows up.

I grew up eating all kinds of wild game. Rabbits, Squirrels, Deer, Possum, we even had a groundhog we were fattening up once but it mysteriously disappeared the day before we were going to butcher it. I've had bear meat, wild boar, and shark before too. Miss those wild game meals now. My DH is not a hunter, and doesn't like deer or seafood. So our main meats tend to be chicken, pork and beef. Boring. :/

 

[Back to Nature]

My dad has cooked possum before. He won't eat them unless they were trapped live and he has a chance to flush them out by feeding them bread and milk for a week or so. We had a possum here that we were trying to capture and if we had caught it live my dad would have taken it to eat. Turned out we ended up shooting it when we spotted it. Dad said he wouldn't take one freshly killed since possums will eat anything and everything. When he fattens them up it gives time for all the crazy stuff they eat to get out of their system and not taint the meat.

Think I will wait until the road-kill beef shows up.

I grew up eating all kinds of wild game. Rabbits, Squirrels, Deer, Possum, we even had a groundhog we were fattening up once but it mysteriously disappeared the day before we were going to butcher it. I've had bear meat, wild boar, and shark before too. Miss those wild game meals now. My DH is not a hunter, and doesn't like deer or seafood. So our main meats tend to be chicken, pork and beef. Boring. :/

Can't you hunt it and cook it and just cook him something else? My fiance won't eat vegetables but it's not stopping me.

 

[marlowmanor]

Think I will wait until the road-kill beef shows up.

I grew up eating all kinds of wild game. Rabbits, Squirrels, Deer, Possum, we even had a groundhog we were fattening up once but it mysteriously disappeared the day before we were going to butcher it. I've had bear meat, wild boar, and shark before too. Miss those wild game meals now. My DH is not a hunter, and doesn't like deer or seafood. So our main meats tend to be chicken, pork and beef. Boring. :/

Can't you hunt it and cook it and just cook him something else? My fiance won't eat vegetables but it's not stopping me.

I don't hunt myself. Never really got into it, well other than shooting a rabbit once. Now I have no problem cooking it if I have it (like when we were given deer meat or go to fish fries) but it's easier to make something everyone will eat. I fish but that's about it and I haven't done that since I got married. I do make seperate things on occassion and I do try to make sure the kids get to try new things so they aren't against certain foods just because their dad doesn't like them.