porcupine recipes
 

Anybody eat or have any good porcupine recipes? :poke:

How about some advice on cleaning the porcupine without losing too much of our own blood? :D

The porcupines I have come across have stunk. Real musky smell. Are they really good to eat.

We don't consider them a game animal. You are right they do stink,I can usually smell them in the bush. I've never eaten one. They are one of the few animals you can catch and kill with a stick and would be survival food if it came to that.

Well i eat it all the time its a actually pretty yummy i just dont know any recipes for it.

I'd probably bone it out and cook it in a crock pot with some kind of sauce.

ok I will try it.

thanks

....or brine and smoke.

Another good idea might be to cut in chunks, brown in butter and garlic and add to chili.

:s8: Your kidding right.

Why would you want to?????

I shoot every one of those little s.o.b I can. It has never entered my mind to try and eat one. Yuk..

never even seen one..

ur missin out.

view my profile-album to see some pics of my freind the porcupine:wave:

We don't have them here, and the one guy I've spoken with who had eaten one said it tasted a bit like turpentine, so I'm guessing the Cedar Plank Method would be best.

Nice pics Genesis

I don't think so.

If I told any one around here I was eating quill pigs, They ask if I had been smokin my cheerios for breakfast and send me for a drug test. :eek2:

Or they would admire you. :party0005:

We used to marinate with a sauce like you would pork, and cook it on the grill. If you freeze them a few months, like any other meat, they tenderize. I never noticed any turpentine flavor, but i guess it could depend on what they have been eating. I normally get them out of hardwood trees in the fall (Probably the ones I see with theleaves off).
They arent too tough to skin. slit up the quilless belly, pull the skin back around the legs from inside.

You boil them for a couple hours and skim the greece off a few times through it,then cook how you want...tastes like chicken!

Why???? where they attacking U and gonna eat ya or sumthing??? they're like anything else in the woods...try and get a youg'n

Ha Ha gen
do u remember the first time i ate porkupine at your house
we nearly blew up the kitchen
haha
and u know what it tasted great.(with the help of some spices)

Ya and you got sick:p

I did not
A week late i got a cold and you blamed the porcupine that was long gon by then.
U dont make sense sometimes!:nonono2::nonono2:

Uh uh cmon! admit it! It was three days not a week!

Try deboning the meat,Place in a bowl with 1 cup crushed pineapple and 1/2 cup hickorey smoke flavored BBQ sauce let sit for 1-2 hours in fridge, then cook on med heat (light bubbling) for 15-20 min. serve with a side of rice or potato's

I don't even want to learn how to cook one. They love eating pine needles and that may be why they taste like turpentine.
I did learn a valuable lesson this spring, probably shouldn't admit it but I kicked one. You ever have a stupid moment? I won't be doing that again. Foot full of quills. I do not recommend doing that.

Bobby

Actually as long as you don't freeze them with the bones in it won't have the gamey taste,They are plant eater's,they are easy to skin the belly has no quill's.
Yes kicvking them would be a big mistake.