marinating squirrel....

[satx78247]

LOTS of GREAT places to get a meal in New Bern, NC. = New Bern was a convenient place to stop on the way down to Beaufort to fish.

There was a "locally-owned café" that was right off US Hwy 70 that "Duckie" loved because she could get a "3/4/5-item vegetable plate" from a choice of over a dozen "home-cooked Southern favorites" & with GREAT cornbread muffins.

yours, satx

 

[sidelock]

would have been better with all busytails but them city folk "NEEDED TO HEAR CHICKEN" an I can't tell a lie. :surrender:

 

[crockett]

That might have been it, this was a long time ago that I'm thinking but that veg plate. Southern vegetables are in a class by themselves. Stewed tomatoes with cinnamon, fried okra, snaps and ham, butter beans baked in milk, etc. Other areas just boil veg's in water. I had that plate a couple of times.

 

[satx78247]

YEP!!!! =====> She said that the Speckled Butter Beans with Ham-hocks were GREAT.

yours, satx

 

[sidelock]

butter beans------ ain't had none in years------- boy they sure are good. youtube, Carolina chocolate drops, butter beans, for a good old southern song. Butter beans are a must in Brunswick stew with your busy tails. :thumbsup:

 

[sidelock]

My friend who made the outdoor Brunswick stew was from Butner NC just up the road from New Burn.

 

[satx78247]

Fwiw, the Brunswick Stew of the Carolinas seems to be a near cousin to the Squirrel Stew of Northeast Texas & Northwest Louisiana.
(The biggest difference that I see in the various recipes for both, is that our stews are BLAZING hot with pieces of fresh/green cayenne pepper.)

yours, satx

 

[sidelock]

Eastern stew is very mild--------- but yummm yummmm good.

 

[satx78247]

NO ARGUMENT. = I really LIKE both stews.

yours, satx

 

[Blizzard of '93]

yes, butter beans or if not available white or baby limas, kernel corn preferably white. okra, tomato, quartered new white taters.
brer possum is right at home in the pot also.

 

[Curt]

My wife boils the squirrel first then dippes them ()n ranch dressin,rolls them in corn meal then frys em in cast iron skillet and its a clean skillet in just a few minutes. Curt

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Butter beans are a must in Brunswick stew with your busy tails

Yeah that's the only way to get butter beans into me is with Brunswick stew...

I will have to try the ranch dressing and frying... glad I just ate breakfast, otherwise I'd be drooling on the keyboard and that's a bit messy...

LD

 

[satx78247]

CHUCKLE. = Out of idle curiosity, have you ever eaten SPECKLED BUTTERBEANS?
(They taste nothing like the white butterbeans, which I won't eat at all cooked in any fashion.)

yours, satx

 

[sidelock]

Guess you ain't never et no butterbeans frum eastern VA. Jus wait til you git sum an you'l chang yur mind.

 

[satx78247]

Well, I was stationed at Ft Story, Ft Pickett & Ft Lee for almost 8 years & I didn't care for them there. - Is that far east enough in VA for you?

Btw, I cannot say here what we RVN-era GIs called ham & white butterbeans, from C-rations!!!!
(Even a whole "GI bottle " of Tabasco sauce didn't improve them.)

yours, satx

 

[Billnpatti]

Ham and butterbeans in C-rats.....thanks a big bunch for reminding me of them. I had mercifully forgotten them since I last ate them in 1959. Both the ham and butterbeans and the meat patties in gravy (Cosmoline?) remind me of a line in one of the Crocodile Dundee movies. He told the young lady, while they were in the Outback, that something (I have forgotten just what it was) that "You can eat it.....it tastes like s__t but you can live on it.".

 

[satx78247]

IF you had been away from your OCONUS base camp for enough days in a row, you could handle the "meat patties in gravy" BUT ham/beans were AWFUL even after 2 weeks in the field.
(In my case, I never got hungry enough to eat that !@#$%^! but instead opened them, poured them on the ground & used the can for making a "field expedient flame mine".)

just my opinion, satx

 

[Billnpatti]

To quote Ben Franklin, "Hunger is the best pickle."

 

[satx78247]

EXACTLY SO. = Fwiw, you are correct about "the gravy" resembling "Cosmoline".

Btw, I recently found a "C-rations cookbook" (published/distributed by the Tabasco company) from the RVN-era that I had "squirreled away in a box". - Finding the "cookbook" brings back memories, though not necessarily good ones.

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

Btw, how did you like "nuoc mam"???
(I still have a "yen" for that fish sauce from time to time, though fish heads & braised monkey are NOT "on my list of comestibles".)

yours, satx