Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Yes, the front has really stalled out west of us. What was supposed to be getting here about 5-6pm is now backed up until 3am. Panhandle weather…..

 

I believe that the storms last week contained them.

 

Well, we’re heading up to Jasper, Ga., to see Alan & Abbey and Kayla & Magnolia in the morning. Alan’s cooking Friday for their Ducks Unlimited banquet and I will be helping him so the chances are strong that I will miss our Friday game for the most part. We will celebrate Magnolia’s 4th birthday on Sunday.

That being said we chose to keep the kitchen clean and the refrigerator free of leftovers. We picked up sandwiches from Fire House tonight.

Packed and ready to head out in the morning. A tumbler of 1792 makes for good sleep tonight.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Farm raised?

 

Quite different in flavor too. I love duck hunting, but not very fond of the meat. Wild duck is very dark red meat and very gamey. Farm raised is not as gamey. Way more greasy though.

We usually smoked our breasts. Occasionally made poppers, stuffed in a jalapeño with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon.


No doubt on the cracked tooth! I always warn to take small bites and chew gently. Lol. I only remember a pellet making it all the way to the plate once or twice though.

 

I had a few buddies whose dogs were kennel all the time, working dogs. Had a few that were house dogs. And had a few that spent the offseason in the house, but duck season in the kennel. Best one I ever hunted with was an inside the house, went EVERYWHERE with the owner, dog. She won her fair share of medals in field comps too. She could mark multiple downed birds without breaking a sweat, and she was amazing at finding one that had made its way to shore and found a good hiding spot.

Went with a dog one time that slept the whole hunt, and would look at you like an idiot when you shot and woke him up. No interest in hunting at all, and the poor owner had spent about 5k having him trained. Lol

 

I’ve eaten my fair share. I had a lady who had a son with some kind of food allergy who I gave a ton of meat to over the years. I haven’t been hunting since moving back to florida. The old duck rig is an inshore fishin machine now, and it works out great cause I like eating fish a lot more!

 

Saltwater inshore. Reds, trout, snook, snapper, flounder, drum, sheepshead, etc.

I don’t do much inland fishing for fresh water fish. Don’t know why, just doesn’t interest me as much.

Lot of diving ducks around here, and I don’t like cleaning or eating them, or a merganser, them things are nasty. In texas, we got a lot more puddle ducks. Mallards, teal, wood ducks, they’re all easy to clean and have better tasting meat, imo.

 

I like all the drums, small ones anyway. Prefer the reds closer to the bottom of the slot than the top. Black drum are fine, but only when they still look like sheepshead. Whiting eat good too. They all taste about the same to me. I like blackened if we only catch one or two, but more often than not, we do a fish fry and invite a crowd.

Interesting fact I didn’t know until recently, sea trout are actually a drum. More closely related to a redfish than an inland brown or rainbow trout.