Any tips or recipes? Keen to give it a whirl
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Any tips or recipes? Keen to give it a whirl
Make sure the roadkill is somewhat fresh.
Meat is meat. Cook as you would a rabbit. Casserole in oven or crockpot it.
Maybe coat pieces in breadcrumbs then deep fry. Only limited by your imagination
My ol'mate of many years ago as a possum trapper used to collect the fat scrapings from his skins and put them in a sock which was nailed close to the fire in his hut, under the sock he had a baked bean can to catch the fat as it dripped through...he used this fat for all his cooking...I can tell you that eggs cooked in possum fat have a flavour of their own....he may well have cooked possum, but if he did he never talked bout it.
Hope it was a clean sock, or I can imagine it would've tasted very unique
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rabbit-au-vin
Yum - I did a possum like this, very good! - use a younger possum not an old manky one.
I'd eat a young possum over a buck any day. Young possums are not too bad. Quite light meat. Big bucks are fatter, redder meat and more possumy smelling. Haven't eaten a buck though so maybe they taste better than they smell
I asked my local Vietnamese who deals in all sorts of stuff for Asians as in balut and deer tails and stag balls if there was any market for possums...his reply was that "only those bloody Koreans eat that shit"...If the Vietnamese wont eat it I don't think anyone would/should.
Very, very good tucker. A possum eats the best. Took my daughter in to the Urewera for a gap year some years ago. Before TUT. We stayed almost a year, eating possum on average, about four times a week. Slow cooked in a camp oven, oven covered in coals, brilliant. Meat's very oily but you won't notice unless you pressure cook it. friend of mine used to do just that. He would pressure cook over a flame, but only for a short while so he didn't blast the oil out. Then would flour, egg and crumb. Dropped into deep fryer, KFC, like you wouldn't believe.
When you clean a possum you will notice there's very little smell, unlike a rabbit which honk!
Above advice re bucks is good. Have eaten them though when had too. When skinning, always, always get rid of the tail glands as soon as possible.
Give them a go. You won't regret it.
The most important thing is to be very clean in butchering the possum. The cooked possum has a very mild flavour, like veal. I like a possum pie with cranberry sauce. Any 'possum' taste is due to poor skills at butchering. Of if in the bush, set a trap at night, get up when I get woken by the rattling chain. Kill the possum, skin it, cut up, and in the morning, wrap the pieces of possum in aluminium foil and roast in the embers of the cup of tea fire. Tastes excellent.
Probley didnt live long enough to talk about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidGunn
Check out "Keeping it Wild" videos. Shay has eaten a bit of possum.:thumbsup:
Yes that man makes excellent videos. I think he's also not a fussy eater - he even has a video of himself eating a mouse, which had been crushed and burnt to a state he called "like a Crunchy chicken nugget" if i remember right hahahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Allizdog
I dont trust his judgement about what tastes nice!
Respect for anyone that eats possum. I'm all about the wild harvest (we don't buy meat), but possum is a step too far for me!
Yes. He is definitely not fussy lol, deer eyeballs etc . . .But he rates possum as the best wild meat he has eaten.
I remember when Kiwis wouldn't eat Kahawai or Trevalley, let alone raw fish, now we eat them all and raw in Sushi and Sashimi.
As posted above, Possum eats the best stuff, new shoots berries etc. So for me, in order of preference. Hare Possum Rabbit. Deer, Pig.
What does Alpaca taste like? Llama?
I'm reminded of the Sam Neil movie "Rams" wherein the sure way to raise an Alpaca farmer's ire, is to call them Llamas.
they are not bad eating cut the oil glands at base of tail out carefully and dont get that oil on meat cut into pieces and soak in salty water in fridge overnight then cook same as chicken
very early in my nursing career inursed an old roadman from south wqestland .he always said a fresh roadkill jacko casseroled slowly over the coals was bloody good tucker boy.furry huas only eat the best ,thats why they taste goo. dont eat an old buck whose been rooting all night or youll stink to high heaven for weeks. he also made a habit of jumping inot any cree3k he came across -wash me clothes and me hair at the same time lad!
those bloody anal glands FMRwhen skinning nicked em a couple of times .cripes riper than a rotting cadavers breath!
headshoot or trap and dong...skin or pluck....gut possum making sure to remove ALL the poohs n wees bits....chop off head,chop off all fout feet making sure to leave no claws on body...walk over to dog kennel,insert possum..walk away.... LOL
I agree with me old mate Mickey Duck -they are damn good dog tucker and I know the man knows what he is talking about because he states remove claws before feeding to dog - that's a must feeding coons to dogs and your dog will get a shine from the possum oil - - yes the old possum trappers lived on them but if I took a number of you and fed you the diet some of those old trappers lived on you would not recover and would need medical treatment for some serious guts problems - and your fundamental ring gear would get e thrashing - give possum a go but having worked in the bush for over 50 years if they were any good we would have been in like robbers dogs but nah nah nah -they are just really good dog tucker - now wild shot other than deer and the very best wild pig - now thats the best wild meat NZ has - closely followed by wild sheep - but then try hare - totally under rated and really nice done properly -- but possum = labrador fodderQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
The legs are good stewed. leave the claw on and hang on side of pot which makes it easier to fish them out to check if they are cooked.
I can imagine someone walking in a you were cooking a possum with its claw out. they would probably think you were eating a cat.:thumbsup:
Nope!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chur Bay
yes they are edible but really they are dog tucker and really good dog tucker at thatQuote:
Originally Posted by 11mms
Possum is fine meat, the best I know is slow cook, when I was in Auckland, I used to cook them often since I got lots of supply, and the dish I made could sell crazy price in China. Here is how I do, 1st chop them into inch size and put them into cold water for at least 30 mins to get rid of bloods and gamy smell, then you will need a bigger pot, the thicker the better, clay pot, cast iron...boil water and put those chops in for few mins and get it out. Ingredients, pork is essential, the rest is onions, ginger and garlic and strong Chinese alcohol.
Yeah, I should open an restaurant. :pacman:
Great prep and cooking tips especially if you’re in a survival situation and I know things are a bit tough out there for some but there’s a mountain of better tucker out there and a million recipes to explore before I’d consider dining on a tree rat.