So...whats for dinner?

Eric yuck! I think I could manage a real fast waddle if I saw that!

Bedo as long as it's edible.

LMG a turtle is cool too bad you couldn't stop. 

Our weather was beautiful all week u til tonight. Had a good thunderstorm. 

Supper tonight was lasagna I made in two 5 X  7 pans. I'll freeze one for after sx. Needed a bit more seasoning though. 

Much love to all

Yikes... snakes - Eric that was just awful.  Like moonflwr I would manage a very quick waddle out.   My neighbour walking her dog in the bush the other day came across a rattler.  Sod that !

Bedo - your crockpot dish sounded wonderful.   I remember when I was a kid my Mum wanted to use up all the leftovers (in the days before crockpots) so she through everything in a saucepan and simmered it like a stew and dished it up.    It was one of the best meals we ever tasted - we called it Splosh... cos that's what it looked like.   Sometimes it just works.

Wow, Special! How would anyone get used to having poisonous predators slinking about! I don't have snake fears at all, and even had a boa on my shoulders during a school presentation once, but it would be a different story if I had to worry daily about poisonous bites! Yikes!  Think I'll stop complaining about our  woodchuck!

I never stick my hand where I cannot see. Wear boots outside unless just walking out driveway to get mail. We have plenty of rat/black snakes. Have had good sized ones on the backporch. Never seen a rattler but sure they are around. More copperheads here than anything. Two years ago either a coral or a king snake came out of the bushes beside my car at twilight. I retreated to the car where there was a flashlight. It kept away from the door and I retreated inside. Did not bother to count the stripes to figure out which kind it was.

DH found an owl on goat feeder morning b4 last. He was putting out feed unusually early d/t work schedule. Maybe some of the poop I've seen is his not raccoon. Prefer to think that. Go Owl Go!

Had meatloaf last night. Good, not spectacular. Not really found a meatloaf I would not eat but still searching for the perfect one. Somehow I got on Safeway's site (prob. since TomThumb here was owned by them). Must have 20 m.l. recipes bookmarked. When I see the giant pkgs on the meat clearance I freeze them in either 1 or 2# amounts.

Much to DD's excitement this morning....last night, after she fell asleep, I made the jasmine rice-chicken dish she likes so much.

Tonight was a new recipe, chicken with piquillo peppers. We had yellow rice and asparagus as sides. It was ok but not remarkable enough to repeat.

That is one large snake.   I do not have a fear of them - but really wouldn't like to worry about them being that close - shudder!

I had to look up frog stranglers - I have never heard that before....what a sheltered life I must've led (not).

Tonight was fish tacos - one of my favs.

Since this is a dinner thread - anyone else eaten snake?  I've had it BBQ'd.  It tastes like chicken.  Just like I think frog tastes like chicken. 

Luv - feral hog has a great taste if it's bled immediately after shooting.  Otherwise it's too gamey.  There is only one county left in Texas that is not being devastated by the feral hogs.  It's the only thing I know that you can shoot anytime, anywhere.  They cause damage to livestock, agriculture, fields, forest, and are threatening native wildlife.  

Here's an interesting article from the Smithsonian.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-73769069/?no-ist

I have not had snake - don't really want to.  DD helped kill the pictured snake - she also killed a smaller one with her truck about a year later just across the street from our house.  I killed a canebrake rattler with my Volvo in our neighborhood in Virginia when the kids were little.

I have eaten venison - my FIL was the warden in SC where they lived and charged with deer population control, so they always had venison.  I don't like it all that much - my MIL would sneak it into meatballs - I referred to it as spaghetti and Bambi.  I did have hog when we were stationed in Guam, it was pretty delicious.  They roasted it on a spit driven by a little motor.  I also had jellyfish in Hong Kong - not a fan.

That is a huge snake. 

We learned it Red ON yellow kills a fellow, red ON black venom lack.  Because both snakes are black, red and yellow. And the thing is Wisconsin is not know for coral snakes. LOL Although we do have a few rattlers around. On the other hand Brown recluse spiders are nasty. 

Never ate snake. Never want too. LOL.  Venison on the other hand all the time. Family of hunters. Dad, aunts uncles brothers Husband , daughter, son in law. Every couple of years they fill up the tags and we don't buy beef for almost a year. They share all. So the younger tenders guys go for steaks, chops, & roasts,  the big ones get ground for sausage and ground meat. It works for us. LOL since they also fish, bass, sunfish, catfish and salmon grace our plates too. However the past two or three years my DH hast had the time to spend out on the lake he used to. He's been taking care of me and then his folks. Now that they are gone, and I am better maybe he'll get back to it. 

Much love

I've eaten venison, frog legs, raccoon (tastes like chicken!), bear, and alligator.  All are tasty.  The bear story is the best.  Neighbor in VT killed a young bear during the winter and hung it high in a tree.  The whole outdoors was a freezer.  When he got it down and butchered it, he gave us steaks.  We were happy to have them.  Too poor to buy beef steaks.

My brother and his hunting buddy shot and cleaned a raccoon and my mother cooked it like fried chicken.  The meat was very white.  It tasted fine but we were bothered by the awareness that we were eating raccoon.  Silly, but true.  Back in those days we thought coons were clean animals.  Didn't know they rinsed their food in water because of lack of saliva. 

Weird conversation!  A little segment on snakes on the local morning news this morning.

Pizza last night was delicious.  The yellow cherry tomato sauce was outstanding.

Tazzy's fish tacos sound very good.  I really like fish tacos but never make them.

Eric, I seem to remember that you told us how to cook your chicken and rice dish, but I don't remember the recipe!  Could you repeat?

Dinner tonight undecided.

I've led a sheltered life. The must exotic meat I've eaten is alligator.  I've had lots of game meats though.  Missouri now has a problematic feral hog population so maybe I'll get to try that one .

Don't know Lacey. Didn't watch Lost. 

They are for sure a menace around here. Owner across the creek has son's hog dogs penned there. Bark relentlessly. Takes them out on weekends. The hogs are tearing up anything including expensive lawns. We haven't had any here (knock on wood) but know they are out there. We have meat processor in town and know they do them. And yes Minus is right - no season, no tags, no nuttin', just go get 'um. I encountered a conversation in the groc. out more rural from us meat dept a couple years back about the taste, when I 1st realized people ate them. Minus - what's the one county without a hog problem? I thought maybe one of the arid desert ones, like the one next to El Paso? I sure wouldn't want to corner one but I've never seen one.

FIL and BIL used to hunt/fry/eat squirrel. Fortunately I came on the scene just about the time this ended. Can't remember what DH said about this. MIL from backwoods KY, I'm sure any meat was eaten though as a child her father moved family to Hawaii.