Got supper for tomorrow night

[olthumpa]

Thanks for the pics.
The only thing you did wrong was you forgot to set a bowl for me.

About 30 years ago I used to work with a man that grew up in southern Louisiana and was always bringing in something "different" to eat. Tried many different things, that guy could really cook.

 

[helomech]

LOL, there is plenty left. Your bowl is still sitting here.

I grew up (until about 8 years ago) south west of New Orleans, in a town called Montegut, just south of Houma. My grandma could cook all kinds of stuff. My mom wont eat anything that don't come from a grocery store though.

 

[Kingcreek]

I haven't had one in years but we used to keep them alive in clean fresh water for 3 days to "get the mud out" then clean them and cook them. An air compressor with a basketball needle works great just under the skin, hit the air and puff em up, makes separating them easy.
I've pan fried turtle in butter and served over noodles or rice or battered and fried like chicken or fish. Good eating!

 

[helomech]

Cool, I have used air on other game. Not sure why I did not think of it for the turtle.

 

[skeets]

Dawg gone it boys its way to early for ta be dis hungry,, ya makin me forget my diet

 

[skeets]

Mech long time ago I tried the air thing on coons some guys could get it to work I never could and when you have a 3 mile trap line, (with a creek running through it and no body else trapped), along corn fields,, ya got a lot of coon,, always had trouble with the tails,,lol

 

[helomech]

Mech long time ago I tried the air thing on coons some guys could get it to work I never could and when you have a 3 mile trap line, (with a creek running through it and no body else trapped), along corn fields,, ya got a lot of coon,, always had trouble with the tails,,lol

I killed a coon this morning, caught it in my trap. I never had any luck trying to clean them things. So much fat, and I hear there are some glands that need removed. I threw it away.

 

[skeets]

I use to take them to an old guy at the mine he would cut them up and do what ever he did with them, he claimed they were good. I aint never been that hungry ,,yet,,, and I would stretch out the hides and sell to the local fur dealer,, some of the jumbos would fetch 30 bucks

 

[helomech]

I would like to try raccoon, seems like a waste to kill them and not eat them. If they would not tear up my deer feeders I would just leave them alone.

 

[Lil Foot]

Thanks for posting the pics, very informative. I'm amazed at the obviously different meats.
My only experience with a snapping turtle was pretty scary for a little kid. When I was 6 or 7, fishing with my wheelchair-bound uncle in northern Wisconsin, I hooked a huge snapper, fought to get it on shore, (thinking I had a huge fish) & once landed, it appeared to want to eat me. I kept climbing higher on the rocks, & it kept advancing toward me, seemed really pissed off. My uncle finally arrived, and was attempting to push it back to the water with his wooden cane..... it bit off & crushed the end of that heavy wooden cane. My uncle killed it with a large rock, & some other fishermen took it home for dinner.