Friday Food

[sean]

you're all sick.

[PaulM]

Originally Posted by sean

you're all sick.

No, I'm just hung over.

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by sean

you're all sick.

Nope. Not sick, just really mad. If you have a complaint, please report it to the restaurant manager.....Thomas Stamp. I only work in the joint.

Any snake recipes? My pan is at the ready.

[PaulM]

These are all genuine foods also. Snails are a delecasy in France, I wouldn't eat them but they must have something going for them. I probably would try most of what has been posted here.

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Paul Mulcahy

These are all genuine foods also. Snails are a delecasy in France, I wouldn't eat them but they must have something going for them. I probably would try most of what has been posted here.

You're going to regret saying that.

[ccos]

I can't seem to upload the pictures for flame fried marmot, I think the files are too big

[PaulM]

Originally Posted by ccos

I can't seem to upload the pictures for flame fried marmot, I think the files are too big

We have different settings and file sizes for members.

If you want to e-mail them to me I can put them up.

paul [dot] mulcahy [at] platform11 [dot] org

[ccos]

Here we are for the first time ever on FridayFood in ful colour "Flambe Marmot"

Parts 1-5 from 12

[PaulM]

Some more marmet. None of these are quite as bad. Thanks Ciaran for sending them.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Those are so good. You've gotta love food that needs a pair of pliers to prepare it.

[Mark Hennessy]

I am so going to Mongolia on my next holiday, that looks like a lot of fun

[Thomas J Stamp]

Crunchy!

Steam your spiders live, as this is a safe method of both asphyxiating them and keeping them crisp and fresh. You'll want to chop the legs off the larger spiders and quarter them. Prepare a bed of romaine lettuce, parsley, Portobello mushrooms in season (chopped), radishes, and scallions. Toss in approximately 1 cup chopped spiders, much as you would in a seafood salad, then a generous amount of olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, and fresh ground pepper. Bon appetit!

So what does spider taste like? Well, you might expect it to be crispy on the outside and gooey in the middle and that's not a bad start. The legs are pleasantly crunchy and have little flesh in them. Then you get to the head and body which have a delicate white meat inside, rather like a cross between chicken and cod. These bits are quite moreish and the only downside is that, after munching a few, you can develop little spider fur balls in your throat.

But then there's the spider's large, globular abdomen. This is the only really disturbing part of the animal: it's full of a dark brown paste that includes everything from eggs to the heart and spider excrement.

Nice.

[Derek Wheeler]

Seen this one done on TV. The preferred spider is Tarantula. Very popular in the Orient.

Large supplies of Tarantula are available from street markets, where they are also prepared, cooked and served. Amazing to see suited business people tucking in, just like we'd devour chicken wings.

[Oisin88]

They absolutely love grasshoppers in Uganda.

When I was there, in season, they had people with huge floodlights and generators trapping grasshoppers in huge tanks and then sending them into the city markets to sell!

[PaulM]

I ordered crab in breadcrumbs in Sydney once. It was just a deshelled crab in bread crumbs. I actually had difficulty eating it as I feared it was a huntsman.

Thomas did you actually eat that spider thing? There are somethings man just wasn't meant to do.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Sadly yes. I'd out eat those losers on I'm a Celebraty any day. I have even had the pleasure of watching Mrs Thomasjstamp vomit whilst watching Kangaroo Testicles being eat.

The brother is worse. I swear that one of those days he's going to decamp to Borneo for a bit of the aul cannibalism.

[Colm Donoghue]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/24/fotw/

[Mark Gleeson]

Now that is Friday food

[ccos]

I once got some Guinea Pig in a resturant in Ecuador its a common enough dish there and I tought well "while in Rome......".
I had a notion that it would be some sort of a stew with some bits of guinea pig floating around that would probably taste just like chicken but when my plated arrived there was just this poor little disembowelled hamster lying on the broad of his back with four legs in the air, his fur scorched with his little beady eyes still open looking at me like he was pleading "don't eat me, I'm too cute to eat." with a portion of rice. I was right about one thing though, it did taste like chicken. BTW the other local delicacy is "Chicken claw" soup.

[bigjim]

I was in Ljubljana a while back with a few mates, sat down outside a very respectable looking restaurant (dinner still cost bout €20 though!). Our eyes were immediately drawn to the bulls testicles, which my mate got (I wasn't brave enough myself). Taste like chicken he said. Yum.