Rat And Mouse Recipes you can learn
to LOVE
if times get Hard
enough
by Anita Sands astrology@earthlink.net
Bush's
war costs us 90 billion every few months. At that rate, the USA will be broke
in two years. So looking ahead, to a world without consumers, factories,
industry, employment and house payments and car payments made on time, you want
to earn to eat simpler foods.
Mice aren't that bad.
Especially not with chilies and tortillas! It's all how you look at them. When
the big crash that has to come to pay for all the wars and bombings hits,
you're going to drool for any extra mice running around your house.
And make no mistake,
those rats deserve to die. They’re predators. Those ORANGES in the trees
that get hollowed out, peels dropped, perfectly eviscerated, that’s RAT DAMAGE.
Avocados, any fruit tree you have will be stripped by rats. I have 20 cats yet
rats strip my trees! So get your kids some beebee guns, and send them outside
at night with flashlights to nail the varmints. Don’t tell children that
tomorrow’s enchiladas will be made of rat meat. Just stack the corpses under a
towel until the kids go to school. Keep the cat off them and make the burgers
when nobody is around!
SEE: http://bulapictures.com/index.php?l=show&id=156
HOW CHINESE BUTCHER and COOK RATS . Prefer MEXICAN FOOD? WHO DOESN”T? A
recipe for enchiladas your kids will adore!
RECIPE FOR
"Enchiladas El Mouse-o EN EL HOUSE-O"
6 corn tortillas 6
mice parboiled, stripped, boned, chopped, seasoned.
2-3 large red dried chilies soaked in water 5 min. l chopped green onion,
cilantro for decorating. Oil/onions. Salt pepper to taste,
Make regular enchilada
sauce by soaking dried chiles (not
seeds or stems) then grinding them in their own pot liquor, and straining well
to separate the chile skin from the chile's red fleshy meat. Then, fry onions; throw this red mushy sauce in for l minute. Set aside.
Heat tortillas on a
greased skillet, drop into sauce until covered, pull
out, and then fill the sopping wet tortilla with about 2 tbsps. Mouse burger,
roll. Set rolls in a dish, line all six up. Pour remaining sauce on top.
Decorate with any old cheese, l chopped green onion. Chopped
olive. Bake l5 min at 350. Festoon with Cilantro. Serves two.
Shepherd’s PIE
Not every shepherd can
dice a lamb every time his belly rumbles. So many
have learned to make do with DICED FIELD MICE.
Take 4 potatoes, boil,
mash, and season, add cream, mash some more, line 8"
pie shell with them.
Boil six medium sized
mice. Rats are ok if you know what they've been
eating. No Buick upholstery or graveyards. Boil wi. Onion, parsley, carrot type
mirapoix.
If the rodents are the
right size, you should have a cup of rat meat
(depending if you've cleaned the carcasses well enough.) Season with
salt, pepper, cayenne, add l cup blanched, chopped almonds, l cup
cracker crumbs, l egg, (reserve l tsp for topping) making a loose burger.
OPTIONAL: bell pepper, onions, cilantro, parsley, thyme, oregano, l can
creamed corn, l can of those crunchy chinese water chestnuts,
chopped olives, a dash of catsup or tomato sauce.
Fill the pie with
chunks of savory mice meat. Cover with more potatoes. Use egg/cream to wipe
down pastry top of pie so it toasts brownish in oven. Many do this after a half
hour of baking, as you don't want the toasty part to blacken!
Remember, a rabbit is
just a big rodent. The taste of the flesh is identical. Ask any concentration
camp senior!
BARBECUED NORWEGIAN
SHIP RAT
We who live near San Pedro Port/ harbor get a rare treat! The NORWEGIAN RAT is
so large (size of an adult siamese cat,) that it can be barbecued on a grill.
Family members see that covering of toasty barbecue sauce and think they're
eating a skinny chicken! The trick is this: the rat's rib cage is much much
longer so you have to break chest section off at a reasonable facsimile of a chicken's
length in the corpse stage.
NOTE: NEVER let your
family see you chopping or peeling a rat. They lose faith in you! The neck is
the dead giveaway. It's way chunkier than any chicken they ever saw. Take it
off at shoulders, give it raw to a cat at far end of property. Of course FOUR
DRUMSTICKS is also a major giveaway. But kids don't count, thank God, having
grown up on the Colonel’s buckets which can be eight legged.
TIP: when cooking
rodents, pre-soaking in herbal marinades solutions with vinegar, soy, sherry,
lemon, orange, onion, garlic, your a standard marinade, up to 5 hours helps
take away that pesky rodent flavor. AND the longer you cook it, with the other
ingredients, the better the meat tastes.
When I was raising four
children as a single mother, (I never let their Spaniard father get our L.A.
address, as I'd fled him,) I used to pick purslane (Berdolagas in Mexican)
which grew on all curbs between the sidewalk slabs. They loved to eat it in
garlicky tomato sauce until one day the kids saw me picking the greens. They
said "MOM are we that poor? DOGS PEE THERE!" After that I had to eat
it all myself, so that's what I mean about children not knowing stuff.
My boys unconsciously
went along with the food-providing however and brought home the bacon any way
they could. They used to Hawaiian sling up braces of corbinas in Malibu surf.
They'd peel abalones off the rocks. Dig clams out of the lowtide beach sand.
We'd meet the sportsfishing /tourist boats on the pier at noon and ask if any
undersize specimens were on hand. We also got the over-limits fish which had
been left by tourists in the boat's bait tank. They were always loaded with
extras and we got them. Sigh! We had our childhood at the same time only I was
more aware of putting food on the table 3 x a day! They just thought they were
having riotous fun!
So hey, in case rat
days fall upon our great country, save this file, send it to pals as a
rattachment, tell them it's all about fat meaty protein sources randomly
occurring in the urban setting. (and don’t forget, possum meat is
interchangeable, these marsupials deserve to be eaten. They’re so stupid they
forget their babies and lose them shortly after birth so God gave them pockets
so Mom couldn’t make a mistake. I know first hand as two infants live under my
washer with no mother in sight. I feed them daily.) Marsupial, Rodent how do I
love you? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. In enchiladas, tacos, .....and in sauce
béarnaise!
ODE TO THE RAT
Tis time to study
history
Finding foods our
forebearers ET!
and learn to down these
odd repasts
Cultured tastes we must
_forget!_
Rat Pie and Rodent in
Souflee
Will be primary on our
list.
The proactive cook
finds when she serves RAT
by each houseguest she
gets kissed!
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