Thanksgiving Recipes ???

[deputydon]

Hey Guys;
Anyone got a favorite Wildlife Thanksgiving recipe they would love to share w/ the rest of us??

[bounce]

No Recipe for you D*D but did finealy sell a dog today and to do so I had to drive all the way to Blair to deliver it. So this took me by the Fontanell Orchard and their Cider barn...smiles... So if your in my neighbor hood stop in and have a glass of Cherry cider with me, Boy for me that stuff has allways ben a real treat!! As lot's of times that I have stoped their over the last 40 years no one was their, just found my 2 gal of cherry cider and left them $10.00 Realy the only thing that has changed in 40years is the price. I think it was $3.00 a gal back then? not a bad price change realy!!!

[deputydon]

Oh yea I stop there everytime I go by too!! I will be over. Cherry cider is hard to beat in my book. I have some on hand.

[Bill]

Im still working on a Duck recipe. Only problem I have is how to get the muddy taste out of the duck. The dam things were all locals and lived in a mud bottom lake. Just a wee bit yuck is all.
Soon as I get some northern ducks I'm planning on breasting them out and cutting up the breasts into peices and browning them. The I'm going to make a layer of wild rice in a flat casarole dish and them make up some dressing using walnuts and semi sweet cherrys and mix in the browned pieces of duck and put that ontop of the bed of rice and then a can of chicken broth ontop and then bake it in the over for about 30 minutes or whatever I end up with by the time the recipe is completed. I'm hoping it will overpower the flavor of the duck. The guys up here all want me to go grouse hunting with them but DaMMMMMMM its like eating flying liver and I sure don't like that flavor too well even though I do like Chicken livers.

[stumpjumper]

Bill ~
Try rubbin' bakin soda & salt into the meat, & soak it over night in the icebox next to the beer. Fact is, droppin' a can in there won't hurt it neither ;D. That useually works for some of our worse cased blackys that thrive in the muddy Maurice River I live on. Or you could do what I do on them real tangy, fish tastin Mergansers. I cook them in a crock pot smothered in scedy sauce. Let it cook for about 3-4 hours, take the ducks out, dump the sauce, add fresh, & replace ducks after you rinced them off.

Alot of work for a dirty duck is something I hear alot, but if they are worth killin', there worth eatin'. I wonder if ol' Hanabal said that to the Judge when he was convicted

[donnie]

LOL! Those "northern" ducks won't be any better Bill. And to think you were shooting teal which are the second best eating duck there is! You are left with greenheads now and ya just can't trust a greenhead! Fillet the breast meat off the bird, soak in baking soda water as stumpy suggests, very least overnight. Then change water to fresh. leave soaking for two days changing water frequently actually squeaze as much blood outta the meat as possible each time you change water. then try cooking them. Much better once ya get the blood outta em! put in a crock pot with tomatoes and slow cook. Do NOT EAT THE TOMATOES AFTERWARD!!
Good luck pal! Shoot wood ducks they will eat much better! ROFLMAO I can just see ya gagging those ducks down! LOL!