The Tennessee Thread

You can do all kinds of stuff with gator meat. Smoke it, grill it, bbq it, or whatever. I've never eaten it but they say it's pretty good. They also say the same thing about rattlesnakes and turtles. I don't know of anybody in TN that eats it very often though. We might need a LA thread for that. LOL.

 

the old AMERICAN way is to prepare gator with a stick of butter and fry the el out of it after you took a mallet to it and soaked it in buttermilk

nein danke


if and when you get nice fillet of gator
skewer it and grill it
best way
season it the way you want (any flavor from the world will apply)
or just fry it yuck

there's dark and light meat and you treat them differently like you would any other meat


amberjack and grouper cheeks are what I get from the gulf coast or Carolina coast red snapper is another along with shrimps and oysters depends on the time of year

amberjack is a fish similar to wahoo in a way or other fish snapper pompano

good to grill
holds it shape
pan sear is good


honestly the grouper cheeks are my favorite

 

LA thread ??/

now why the hel you wanna go out to caulifornia

 

Where do you actually get gator down here? Do they just sell it at the grocery store? I think there are some specialty restaurants that have it but that's the only way I know of to get it. I work with a guy that said it was pretty good.

 

Trust me. I don't. Ever. LOL.

 

TBH
publix has it
a lil over priced
but better than some local places I seen who had it

 

They don't have publix in east tn. I mostly see those like in FL. Do they have them out west? We have Kroger, Food City, Ingles, Food Lion, and that's about it. We did have Bi-Lo but I think they went out of business. As did Piggly Wiggly's around here.

 

I love turtle
and my ponds in PA I have
crawfish
trout
and goldfish

in Carolina I've seen snapping turtles bigger than a tire

I would never kill them immediately but capture and cleanse with soda crackers for 3 days before I ever ate one

along with coon and possm

 

You need to come on down here. You can sleep in gameroom if you need a place. I am stuck in it for a week due to my recent...uhm...operation... I'll keep the couch warm for you.

 

that's right

CTZ publics baby
lol

 

MAN DUDE! That's sorta like cannibalism since he had became a family member by that point. I will tell you another story sorta like that. When I was little I had a chow named Snuggles and loved the crap out of him. Well when he got big one of my uncle's cows had had a calf and some dogs attacked it and killed it. Snuggles was in on it so they made me give him away. So then a few months later they get me a new puppy that was supposedly Snuggles' son. Well I didn't think anything about it and just named him Snugs. He went on to get run over but years later I was telling my buddy about this and I had this incredible moment of clarity. SNUGGLES was a CHOW. SNUGS was a BLUETICK! LOL! All those years I had thought that Snuggles and Snugs were related until I actually thought about it and realized that was impossible. LOL. Man parents will do anything to shut their kids up! HA!

 

That's what I was gonna say! Chalk one up for the CTZ! HA! I really wouldn't be surprised if stores here started selling it though because Swamp People is such a popular show that people might just buy it out of curiosity.

 

No, no water. The average rainfall in San Diego is 9-13 inches/year. Ain't gonna make that this year so, of course, the enviro-whackos keep holding up the De-sal plant that will produce an estimated 5 million gals./day of fresh water.
We don't have amberjack here but, we have a close relative in the yellowtail (Hamachi for all the sushi people) properly prepared, it's pretty tasty.

 

Ray
you stationed in Montgomery Al or Fort Walton Beach?

played golf at quite a few Air Force stations
you guys have the best courses lol

you were also stationed in Europe too right Germany?
Ramstein ,Geilenkirchen?


had a family member
go from

started in Guam then grand forks to Edwards to sault st marie to fwb LOL

 

Alabama has good gator

farm raised is the way to go for consumption I feel they are younger and tender


dem dere in nawlins and bayou and all be ol n tuff n all

I love to kabob chunks of fillet after marinating in a mojo

don't do much fried when I do
then it's fryday

everything is fried tempura style

 

What county TTF is it close to TENN border?

 

Im in south eastern ky but i bet im still close to it
it is prob real close to oh or wv rather than tenn then