BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer

Subject: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:30 PM

kat/kat and other Vegetarians, Vegans and PETA People:

WARINING!! IF YOU READ FURTHER YOU MAY BE OFFENDED!!

I have a freezer chock full of duck, goose, deer, antlope,and elk, plus whatever other goodies I can come up with in the meantime.

I would like to plan a game feed/backyard Music Party this summer, and all of MudCat is invited, especially those who live near me, i.e. Colorado/Wyoming Catters.

I am looking for some input on DATES......when some of you might be able to come, or absolutely CANNOT come.....I do of course have my own set of criteria--Friday or Saturday with Saturday afternoon/eve preffered, Mr. must be Home to Help, etc.

If you are at all interested, PM me (or e mail, it's on the Resource E Mail page) with dates etc.

There will be other Non MudCat people invited.........

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:38 PM

Sorch my dear, I can't make it this summer, but I gotta' tell you it sounds good!!! Wayne (of Wayne and Connie) hunts and every year about this time we try to have "Critter Dinner." We do mainly squirrel, rabbit, dove, groundhog, and of course venison.....but yours sponds a LOT more exotic to this eastern boy.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:41 PM

I promise, I WON'T cook possum........OK? Tell Cleigh he and His are safe......wish you could come. Get well, OK? I do have a recipe for woodchuck, tho.......

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: MMario
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:44 PM

okay - that does it. I want a transporter beam.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Edmund Flynn (inactive)
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:44 PM

Man ! ! ! Do I feel dumb ... you mean to tell me that there is a resourse page??? I've looked but can't find it.
Sorry to be off topic, but I really do want to know....
where? please, where? Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:48 PM

OK--up top on the right is a box that says Quick Links, with a pull down Arrow. Click the arrow, and from the menu, choose MudCat Resource Page. Then you get to decide if you e mails, photos, profiles, birthdays whatever. Go try it and see..........

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 04:49 PM

Sorcha, I didn't read, but wanted to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the warning posted and your sensitivity. It is greatly appreciated.

luvyawomon...kat

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Matt_R
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM

why does EVERYTHING have to be so damn far away?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From:
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:22 PM

Spaw..WOODCHUCK??????????????erGROUNDHOG???????EEEK

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:24 PM

(well, katie/kat, I do try sometimes.......you know I do have my own set of problems with the genre, after all)

MMario and Matt: the twos of you should charter a low flying penguin and come on down!! We promise not to tip or grill the penguin.......

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: MMario
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:26 PM

woodchuck can be some mighty fine eatin' if prepared properly. What I've had was MUCH Better then the raccoon or opposum I've had.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: bigchuck
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:32 PM

Better watch this stuff. The Society for the Prevention of Ingestion of Poor Helpless Innocent Woodchucks might need to pay several of you a late night visit. Dire, dire consequences could very well result.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:50 PM

uhhhhhh, OK, no possum and no woodchuck......could I do shredded prairie dogs? Or marmots? lab rats? LOL, I do wish I could get some Mountain Lion/puma/cougar, tho. It's pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: MMario
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:54 PM

SPI-PHIW?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 05:56 PM

(i assume that is pronouced si-fi....??) LOL, ROFLMAO!! spitting on keyboard..........HEY! this is serious, now people!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:13 PM

That might justify a plane trip to see our little girl (in Salt Lake). If we could just pick up a couple of gigs to pay the plane fare...

Where are you, Sorcha? I assume southern Wyoming, if you're specifying Colo. and Wyo. mudcatters, and the resource page says you're in Wyo.

We played in Saratoga in Summer '99. Old friends there. She ran the Summer arts festival and wangled enough of their budget for us to pay for the trip.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: mkebenn
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:33 PM

NMario, I love most game, and I thought, hell, they eat grass, why not? YUCK..what does "prepared correctly" mean, stewed beyond regonition? Mike{with cookie set surreptiously at work}

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:44 PM

Let me say this about that: Sorcha put on one heck of a backyard "do" last year when Bill and I came through town. There were wonderful eats to be "et" - including some antelope. Or was it jackalope? Whatever it was, it was accompanied by many other wonderful foods.

But it was the music that made it such a great event. I am certain that if a few other 'Catters were mixed into the bunch, it could be even better than great.

I'll be lickin' my chops and will be wishing I could attend. Sorcha truly knows how to do a backyard music fest!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:47 PM

Sorcha is in Torrington, Wyoming. 8 miles west of the NE/WY border, and 85 miles north of Cheyenne, Wyoming on Highway 85. No plane, no train, no bus.........

"prepared properly" usually refers to the carcass.....skinned and gutted in a timely manner,with the necessary glands removed (without contaminating the meat), and then cooked in a manner suiting that particular game.....marinated, barded, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:57 PM

I'm sure I must have been absent on the day the cooking class discussed the preperation of "barded" foods. What is that?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 08:58 PM

Allan, it means basically, adding fat. A lot of game is very lean, esp. when you cut off the existing fat because it tastes bad, and goes rancid very quickly. "Barding" is the adding of some kind of fat--bacon, suet, etc. over the top of the meat while it cooks. No clue if there is a connection to the musical term bard......

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:09 PM

Oh. We always called it "larding"; but I see now that it is a French term coming from "barde". Hey, another day that I have learned something new! Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:12 PM

Wish you could come, Allan, and Bill too. Looks to be a lot of fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: MMario
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:21 PM

yes, from what I understand it's the glands - they gotta be removed pronto and I guess it's a little tricky to get the buggers without contaminating the meat.

I've only had woodchuck the once - stewed, by the wife of an old family retainer of my sister's in-laws. I didn't know what it was until I'd had seconds. Now the raccoon - too greasy for me, and it was really gamy - the 'possum was a little rank too.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: BK
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:27 PM

Sorcha; We'd love to come, but gettin to Winfield was pretty much pushin' our time (etc) resources.. BUT we'll keep it in mind as the summer develops. Unfortunately sweetie's dad, whose dementia has been getting worse, just had a heart attack ("MI" in medical lingo)& now is facing congestive heart failure ("CHF"), so what time we have for runnin' may well be taken up by goin' back & forth to Milwaukee. She was always very much closer to her pop ('n grannie) than her mum..

Anyway, eat hearty!

Cheers, BK

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:34 PM

A lot depends on the age of the critter, which the hunter cannot usually know....with antlered/horned game it is fairly easy, but rabbits, chucks, coon, possum, etc. who can know?

Bear can be really good, like good pork, but can also be really rancid/nasty. Antelope/aka American Pronghorn has the musk scent in the hair and hide, so very careful removal of the hind legs and hide is necessary.

What the critter has eaten also has a great deal to with with meat taste.....a grain or hay fed wild animal will taste better than a sagebrush/bitterbrush fed animal,just like with cattle. In this area of Wyoming that is not a big problem. Most of our Big Game animals are grain/hay/grass fed, as they invade the cattle pastures.

Farther west in WY, this can be a problem,as sagebrush is all there is for them to eat. In that case, marinating in milk (after freezing) can help a lot. Aw, crap, I am runnin off at the mouth again......

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:48 PM

Oh, BK, that is so sad. I have had to deal with dying parents, but never dementia. Dementia is just THE PITS!!! I don't know if we will make Winfield this year or not.....(I had some personal probs with my family last year, so am not sure I want to bring them again). Still hoping to hear from LEJ, rexridout, BlueJay, WW, etc. It will be a good feast and a fun time. Hope some Catters can make it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Rex
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 11:29 AM

Alert to the Colorado crew: Sorcha says she'll feed us! Well I'd be happy to sample whatever varmints you have in the freezer. So how come there aren't any dogs and cats in your neighborhood? Anyway, this Summer will be packed with events but let us know the date, I'll mark it on the calendar. I sure would like to come if I can squeeze it in.

Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 03:34 PM

There is the remotest of possibilities that I will be bringing my kids to visit their Grandpa in Boulder, CO this summer. If we could get the dates to overlap, wouldn't that be a hoot? One of my fondest culinary memories is the year my dad bagged an elk yearling; elk stroganoff has to be one of the finest things I have ever tasted!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 06:24 PM

Damn, I'm in the same boat as Matt....everything always tends to be too far away....that sounds like some good food will be eaten and I won't be there....

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Matt_R
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 06:37 PM

Yeah but at least it's reasonable for you, Merg.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Edmund Flynn (inactive)
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 07:48 PM

Thank you Sorcha for the info on Mudcat Resources. It was worth looking stupid to get that info.

Wish I could attend the feed ... not a chance.

But I'll toss in the best recipie I know for squirrel .. and simple too .. from Maryland's Eastern Shore (better known for blue ctabs and oysters)if anyone's interested.
Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 07:59 PM

I knew a bloke once who was a vegetarian on principle, but liked the taste of meat. So he used to go round looking for road kill, since that was dead already. He said that badger was surprisingly tasty. I always wondered whether on that principle he might get into cannibalism some day...

I believe there are some good Australian recipes for worms. True.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 08:28 PM

Sorcha: The most rancid/nasty bear I ever met was at a camp I had on Lake Chandalar in the Brooks Range. He ate my camp and I'm just guessing about the rancid part because I never got a chance to taste him. You might say he caught me with my pants down. It never crossed my mind to wonder what he would have tasted like if he had eaten me.

As for dementia, BK, it's not something to joke about, but I can tell you from a lot of experience that in almost all cases it is a heavier load for the care taker than for the patient. I got a little of it myself from being kept packed in ice for eight hours while a doctor competed his post-doctoral thesis. (pulmonary-thrombo-endarterectomy fot the medical snobs among us)(wanna see my scars?)

BTW, isn't that a possum in the funny papers? ABTW, in the Home, here, spontaneous occurences of Alzheimers miscues are called senior moments.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 11:27 PM

Animaterra, let me know your dates, OK? That would be a real kick! McGrath, we are NOT serving worms. Or insects. Period. No Way. (*sg*)

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Game Feed at Sorcha's this summer
From: Amos
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:33 AM

Those of you who complain that everything is too far away might want to consider the distribution principle mentioned in another thread. Maybe YOU're too far away! Ever think of that??? Huh????