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Look who came for dinner last night!!!

Postby Ira » Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:05 pm

It got cool here last night--almost hit way down to FIFTY!

So I started a fire in the backyard in our outdoor "fireplace," and was about to prep my square vertical smoker for Thursday's festivities, when...

I saw THIS little bastard's tail snapping in the darkness and making himself real comfortable right in that very smoker:

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I banged the crap out of it, shook it all around, turned the dang thing almost upside down, and all I did was piss him off. Piece of crap wouldn't budge.

So please note his loving expression here after doing so:

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Son of a bitch just wouldn't leave!

So does anyone wanna see the shots I took after I doused him with lighter fluid and took a match to his vermin-ridden, ratty ass?

For those of you that don't know--he used to be a possum. Now, he's just carbon.
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Postby Kurt (Indiana) » Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:22 pm

Ira, So what's for dinner??? :lol: :lol:
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Postby stjohn » Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:23 pm

you ruined a perfectly good possum , what should have done was knocked him in the head, skinned him,stuck a stick up his butt and smoked him
mmmmmm finger lickin good I don't know why nobody shows up at my
B.B.Q.s :lol: :lol:

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Postby Ira » Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:39 pm

People eat them all the time. But I just wanted to kill him.

Seriously, at least I learned my new camera works pretty well. Those shots were taken in just about complete darkness, and I WASN'T that close to him.

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Postby Miriam C. » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:12 pm

stjohn wrote:you ruined a perfectly good possum , what should have done was knocked him in the head, skinned him,stuck a stick up his butt and smoked him
mmmmmm finger lickin good I don't know why nobody shows up at my
B.B.Q.s :lol: :lol:

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Must be the Urban recipe. The folks who know how to fix possum catch em and put em in a pen for a couple of weeks. Ya gotta feed em rabbit food to clean em out. -----Miss Ludy's recipe. Boil then roast and add los oo onions. ;)
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Postby SkipperSue » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:17 pm

You mean that Coral Springs has those damn things! :? I'd raise hell to somebody that runs that town. :twisted:

I have one that's started coming around and eating the cat's food, I have the 22 rifle ready for him but he's a smart one it seems. I usually kill about 2-3 a year. :R
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Postby Classic Finn » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:54 pm

I saw THIS little bastard's tail snapping in the darkness and making himself real comfortable right in that very smoker: (Ira,s Quote)

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :rofl2: Ira your way of expressing this situation has all of us laughing like sh.... here..

Ira go ahead show us whats left of the varmint... :lol: :lol: Now if that aint Suthern.. :lol: Ira,s Style of Possum BBQ.. :lol:

By the way how much do them lil bastards weigh? (I mean hairy varmint):rofl2:


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Postby Juneaudave » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:13 pm

SkipperSue wrote:You mean that Coral Springs has those damn things! :? I'd raise hell to somebody that runs that town. :twisted:
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I agree...How can a place that outlaws crabs in the driveway tolerate possums? Seems discriminatory to me.

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Postby George Kraus » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:03 pm

mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm Opossum, the other white meat!

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Postby dmb90260 » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:08 am

Maybe your title should be "guess who became dinner"
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Wild Possum Kabob

Ingredients:
1 Still breathing, corn-fed Possum
3 Ripe but firm tomatoes
1 Large white or yellow onion
1/2 pound large mushrooms
2 large green peppers
1 package meat marinade
1/2 cup soy sauce
12 skewers (sticks are okay in Arkansas)

Preparation:
The possum must be alive so that you can scare it, giving you the "wild" taste from all the adrenaline it produces. It is best to hit it over the head with a large object in a humane manner. Boil the possum for 3 minutes to loosen the fur then skin and gut it.
De-limb (chop the little knubby legs off) the possum and cut the meat into 1/2 inch square chunks. Marinate overnight in a mixture of meat marinade and soy sauce. Kentucky residents who have no fridge can use an ice chest and may use radiator coolant instead of soy sauce.
Thread the meat and veggies onto your skewer/stick in alternating sequences to distribute the delicious flavor evenly. Cook over a barbecue, pit, 50 gallon drum or any other fire till you get the desired result. For added flavor, you can cook it over burning tires.

Possum and Taters

Ingredients:
1 young, fat possum
8 sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon sugar
salt

Directions: First, catch a possum. This in itself is excellent entertainment on a moonlight night. Skin the possum and remove the head and feet. Be sure to wash it thoroughly. Freeze overnight either outside or in a refrigerator.
When ready to cook, peel the potatoes and boil them tender in lightly salted water along with the butter and sugar. At the same time, stew the possum tender in a tightly covered pan with a little water. Arrange the taters around the possum, strip with bacon, sprinkle with thyme or marjoram, or pepper, and brown in the oven. Baste often with the drippings.

Possum Pot Pie

Ingredients:
1 cup glazed huckleberries
3 shots gin or moonshine
1 possum
---if roadkill: make jambalaya
---if caught: proceed with recipe
1 pie crust
sliced carrots & cabbage to taste

Directions:
Cover a pan (or any implement you can put in a fire) with the bottom of your pie crust, and place the possum in it. Add the huckleberries and carrots, and shred the cabbage over it. Close up the pie and bake until the neighbors' dogs come sniffing around to see what the wonderful smell is, or until the fire department arrives (whichever comes first). Remove pie from fire/oven, slice, and enjoy.

Possum Creole

Ingredients:
1 slightly injured possum
1 cup mayonnaise
8 cups pig fat
2 cups buttermilk
2 fresh green peppers

Directions: Slice green peppers and mix ingredients in a large bowl(exclude possum). Cut possum into chunks or thin strips. Mix possum chunks into bowl. Transfer contents of bowl into a casserole dich and bake under 350 degrees for two hours. Remove from oven, let sit for half an hour, and serve. ENJOY!!
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Postby RKH » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:50 am

You mean that Coral Springs has those damn things! I'd raise hell to somebody that runs that town.

I, too, would be surprised if Coral Springs allowed those and I'm pretty sure they don't.
Before Ira calls it in though, he should be aware that the landowner who is giving refuge (that would be Ira despite his protests of innocence) is responsible for the critter. Unauthorized possum killing and roasting is also fine-able.
Luckily, Coral Springs doesn't have "3 strikes and you're out" or that scofflaw Ira would be moving on. (TD in the driveway=1, truck on the grass=2, housing an unlicensed possum=3, killing and roasting without a permit=fugitive for life). :lol:
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Re: Look who came for dinner last night!!!

Postby Joseph » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:08 am

Ira wrote:So does anyone wanna see the shots I took after I doused him with lighter fluid and took a match to his vermin-ridden, ratty ass?

There's an urban legend about a guy who did that to a porcupine. The porcupine immediately ran under the guy's house and it burned to the ground...

Meanwhile, Kate had TWO possums in her house a couple of weeks ago, munching on her cats' food - oddly enough, the cats don't seem to mind. The possums got relocated.

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Postby Ira » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:28 pm

I wouldn't really kill it--because I don't know how to do so effectively.

TEACH me how--and that's a different story.
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Postby Gaston » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:42 pm

I cured my last possum from eating the dogs food with a 22 pistol........and I have the bullet hole in the back door to prove it :?
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Postby Joseph » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:42 pm

Ira wrote:I wouldn't really kill it--because I don't know how to do so effectively.
TEACH me how--and that's a different story.

If you truly wish to kill the things, a high powered pellet gun (pump type) probably wouldn't get you into too much trouble there in Coral Springs. Personally, I don't kill things I don't intend to eat (burglars don't count). I did kill a possum once intending to eat it but the thing was so nasty I just gave it a decent burial.

As for the two at Kate's house, the first one she caught in a live trap provided by the local animal control people. They came and got it and carted it way out in the country away from residences. Unfortunately, there was a second one and animal control hadn't come back with the trap yet. So I basically shooed it out from under the Hoosier cabinet with a stick and tossed a waste basket over it. Got it into a cat carrier and it followed its brother out into the country.


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