WILD POSSUM KABOB

Don D

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-06-04 AT 01:58PM (CST)[/font][br][br]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 and Oregon 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 for about two hours 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.

smaces_twin

I didn't know you could scare a possum. I tried that in college when one was standing outside my door and all it did was growl at me. I promptly went back inside and waited for it to leave.

Don D

You may be right. There are roughly ten billion of them, about whom it can be said, they were not afraid of a moving vehicle. The actual shelf life of road kill possum is somewhere between 5 and 9 days depending on ambient temperature, or so I've heard from a friend in Oregon.

mushroomHR

Eeeeeeuuuuuuwwwww! Gross! Is this one of your favorite dishes Don? x;-)

Shadowfax

Thanks Don, I'm sending this to my neighbor to use on that ground hog he's got under his porch!

Whirlwind

Good thing I've got this recipe, since my dog killed a possum in my backyard at about 11 pm last night. This was not a first. After an apparent possum-o-cide, I usually wait an hour to see if the possum is really dead. About half the time, they "come to" and waddle off sometime after I've wrestled the dog inside. This one, however, was still dead after one hour, so midnight found me scooping the corpus delecti into a hefty bag. I don't recommend this as a pre-bedtime activity prior to beginning the work week.

Don D

Actually it's quite acceptable to shovel him directly onto the pre-heated grill. That way you save the hefty bag and the next morning, the smell of breakfast wafting through the neighborhood from your grill will bring you more friends than you ever imagined.

sonny

Can you substitute Armadillo? x;-)

Don D

Yes, absolutely. It is required that you remove the green flies and gravel from road-kill though. (Optional in Arkansas).

Whirlwind

I must confess I chickened out on the kabobs and deposited the hefty bag into my outdoor garbage can. Unfortunately, my garbage collection day isn't until Friday. It's now day day three of possum post mortem, and it's been very hot -- not a very neighborly situation. I just hope I can make it two more days of getting between my car and my front door witout being attacked by a buzzard.

Leslie

Whirlwind, don't you know, that
s what those dumpsters behind grocery stores are for?

Whirlwind

Now I do!!!