ya'all got crawdad's dat's great!! I think mos of ours are sold as langastino (which they are not), much better name that crawfish or crawdads.
the garlic mayo sounds good. ... might have to set out a line Quoting Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 19/04/07, jim.dodgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this sort of messes up my "White swan and fresh fish" feast I was > > planning :) > > > > Most of the stuff you'd catch on the canal is uneatable anyway unless you > soak if for days in salted water to get rid of the muddy taste. The > exception is zander, that beady-eyed predator from east Europe that has > become such a pest you are actually prevented by law from throwing it back. > This is rather convenient. It will require the statutory salt bath, but > after that... delicious. Same with your American crayfish. Dumb as your > politicians but far tastier. Chuck a bit of raw chicken on a line in some > places on the cut and within minutes you'll have 'em up hanging on to it > with their claws as if their life depended on it, which of course it does, > though not in the way they think. Leave them in fresh lightly salted water > for a day or two. Poach them lightly. Eat their tails with garlic > mayonnaise. > > Swans on the other hand are royal game or summut like that. I think you get > your head chopped off if you kill one. That's if they don't kill you > first, ill tempered creatures that they are. > > Moorhens are a better bet, though really too cute to kill (besides they can > screech like a siren if you manage to catch one) Mallards too, despite their > prevalence, are perceived as being more decorative than delicious in these > islands, and necking them on the towpath tends to upset young children and > the elderly. > > Go for geese instead: the big white ones are the juiciest but they tend to > be owned by someone, even if it is a farmer five miles away who hasn't seen > his flock since they absconded a couple of years before. So go for the > Canada variety. These are so common you will almost invariably find yourself > sharing your bed with them at some stage if you ever make a trip over here; > though in inimitable British fashion we have them protected or listed or > summut like that. One way or another, you aren't supposed to touch them > though no-one will care a toss if you do, so generally disliked are they for > their habit of converting a good grassy meadow to a sh*t pit in under 24 > hours. > > Starter: Crayfish in farm egg, free range mayonnaise with wild garlic > Main: Grilled duck breast on a lightly poached bed of young nettles; or > Zander poached in a bouillon of wild herbs with potatoes vole. > Sweet: (only available in autumn on the Oxford) Warm blackberry and Crab > Apple crumble with Jersey ice cream (from the boat near Pigeon's Lock at > Kirklington where you can see the cow it's come from) > > Steve > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
