Re: Done the Deed II

From: Mary Fisher (mary.fisher_at_zetnet.co.uk)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:24:21 +0100

"Ray Drouillard" <cosmicpam2@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2pup6mFpovqoU1@uni-berlin.de...
>

>
>
> Hi Nick. I like your new handle.

It's not very imaginative though is it!
>
> Just to show that there are no hard feelings, I would like to cordially
> invite you to come over and help us eat that bird. Or, if you would
> prefer to try organ meat, you can come over after we do in the next bird
> (maybe I'll make a guillotine, or maybe I'll just pound two nails into
> the chopping block to hold his head). If you're impatient (we are
> letting the bird 'rest' in the refrigerator until Tuesday afternoon), I
> can try to retrieve the head, and then gently sauté's the comb and
> wattles in olive oil with onions and puffballs. Or, I can extract the
> brains (a couple grams), mix them with eggs, add garlic and hot pepper,
> and cook them like scrambled eggs.

When my mother killed a rabbit I used to love the brains, I still remember
the feeling of scooping them out of the fragile skull with my fingers.

As for the tongue, my brother and I argued so much about it that my mother
would cut it in half, longitudinally, so that we each had exactly half. I
thought that wsn't fair because I was three years older than he was and
bigger ...

> As for the family -- well, we prefer the muscles. This bird has some
> serious drumsticks, and a couple pounds of breast meat. Even the wings
> are big. Whatever we don't eat Tuesday evening is going to end up in
> chicken salad sandwiches, chicken soup, chicken stir fry, or something
> like that. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

The rabbit muscles were part of the stew. Chicken? That was for very rich
people.

It was in the early 1940s, during the war, when meat was rationed and we
were so hungry we'd eat anything. I remember cowheel .. large, glutinous
lumps of - I don't know what - but they were sustaining, they were protein
and they were tasty, thanks to my mother's cooking skills. Rabbit ws the
best though and if she'd been so squeamish as not to kill it we'd have gone
hungry.

Someone said to me today: if God had meant us to be vegetarians why did He
make animals of meat?

Mary

>
> Anyhow, 'ol Kevin looks like a Thanksgiving turkey right now. He was a
> big, healthy bird. It'll be an honor to eat him.
>
>
> Respectfully,
> Ray Drouillard
>
>
>

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