I have had a chance to eat snapping turtle as well. I was really not
impressed and would only consider it during times of survival. Was there a
particular way in which you prepared and cooked it?
My reply:
Most of my unusual meals have been as a result of trapping the wrong animal
and living on a budget while in college or unemployed or when backpacking for
many months at a time (almost all back country back-packers live off the
land. It is basically impossible to pack in enough food at the caloric burn
rate to maintain yourself if you are venturing out for a several months).
I cooked the snapper in its own shell after minimal processing, and found the
meat excellent. But then consider I have eaten crickets, spiders, grass
hoppers, worms, larvae etc.
When I was in New Orleans spending a few wild weeks with some highly educated
"bums", we had more than one meal of snapper. One was a soup, and it was
excellent. I did not prepare it, but gosh it was good.
I also made snapper kabobs on a stick, with a spicy bbq rub, along with
alligator, and crawdads...excellent. The snapper was marinated with a dry
rub, and the gator and shrimp had a wet rub. This is my basic rub recipe:
brown 3 cloves garlic in 1 t butter - finely chop
* 1/2 cup caramelized sweet onion finely chopped
* 1 t oregano
* 2 t paprika
* 1 t brown sugar
* 1/8 cayenne peeper
* 1/4 ground black pepper
* 1 t chili powder
add enough water to make it a little thinner than paste
I marinate the shrimp and alligator for 3-4 hours and the snapper overnight
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[NAFEX] Jim - snapper,
fuwa fuwa usagi, 11/15/2008