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Skriven 2008-09-04 09:13:43 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Nancy Backus
Ärende: CHICKEN FEET  80904
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 -=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Glen Jamieson <=-

 NB>> Too bad it's not that easy to get rabbit nowadays... at least around
 NB>> here, anyway... :)

 GJ>       but wild rabbits can still be trapped in some
 GJ> areas.  Some are also farmed, and are sold separately.  The farmed
 GJ> ones are fatter and more tender, but I prefer the stronger flavour of
 GJ> the wild, even though they are slightly more expensive, at about $9/kg.

 NB> Hmmm... I'd better not mention this to my friend MJ, as she keeps
 NB> asking me to get rabbit for her, and she'd be jealous that you have it
 NB> easily available, even if it isn't particularly inexpensive...  Once in
 NB> a while you can find it in specialty meat markets... I used to get it
 NB> at Wegmans but I haven't seen it there for years, now...  

In the Central Market in Adelaide there are two game meat shops, and
others which also sell rabbit, quail, goat, wild pig and crocodile.  I
have a rabbit and two kangaroo tails in my freezer now, which are
waiting for a suitable occasion to cook up for friends.

And now for my latest experiment - with chicken feet.  As they were on
special at $2.50/kg at the local "Lucky Asian", I had to get $2 worth.
In my attempt to get them "crispy, crunchy", I tried marinating them in
soy sauce and garlic overnight, pressure cooked for 20 minutes, then
fried some and fan-grilled the rest.  I succeeded in getting the claws
nicely crunchy, and the first joint of the toes was fully edible, but
bones further up were too tough to eat.  The skin/flesh was cooked to
tenderness, but the pressure cooking had softened it to the point of
coming away from the leg bones.  Frying hardened it somewhat.

The appearance was interesting.  If you remember back to older B-grade
horror movies, where zombie arms come out of the graves, with black,
rotting flesh falling off the bones, that is very close to what those
chook feet looked like.  I invited my son and his girlfriend to share
them, but they shuddered and disappeared, so now I have to eat them all
myself.  (I'm sure the dog will help me, though!)


... They're MY feet...I'll put them in my mouth if I want to!
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