Skylineloft
99 posts
Aug 28, 2007
10:48 PM
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List,
With the 3 day weekend coming up.
Some of us have extra birds.
Not worthy of leaving the property.
Anyone have any good recipes for pigeon.
Hate to see them grain fed birds go to waste.
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W@yne
631 posts
Aug 28, 2007
10:49 PM
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Never ate them and i dont think i could do lol.
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W@yne UK
Patience Perseverance Perfection
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DUCKS N ROLLERS
35 posts
Aug 28, 2007
10:53 PM
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Im "game"to try anything once.
it would have to to be your birds though, i dont think i could eat one of my own.
mike.
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Ducks&Rollers.JR
6 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:01 PM
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Dude, im not sure this is the best place to post somthing like this...Some of us here are quit serious about treating our Pigeons, and I dont think eating them is on the list hahaha
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Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2007 11:20 PM
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Electric-man
535 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:04 PM
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Get some cheap bacon and wrap a couple of pieces around the breast. You can hold it on there with tooth pics!Then grill it!
Another way is to put them in a dish and pour cambell's mushroom soup over them and bake them!
A couple of ways that we ate dove, and I bet their a wlole lot better than dove! Especially being grain fed! Mmmm!Mmmm!
Been thinking about trying them myself!
Let us know if you try it!
Val
"Site Moderator"
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Ducks&Rollers.JR
7 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:16 PM
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You are a verry disterbed person arnt you? haha
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nicksiders
2110 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:26 PM
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No matter what spices you use I get better results when I skin them
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Nick
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DUCKS N ROLLERS
36 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:34 PM
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Whats wrong nick, you dont like feathers ?
mike.
Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2007 11:47 PM
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Ducks&Rollers.JR
10 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:37 PM
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I dont see a Jim in here...Is your immaginary friend back again Dad? Hahahahaha
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Electric-man
536 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:44 PM
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D&R JR, Yes, I am very disturbed,thank you!LOL Plus I am also cajun and we eat critters! We can't help it! LOL
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Val
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Ducks&Rollers.JR
11 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:52 PM
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Hahahaha.. So is that why cajun food is so good?
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Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2007 11:52 PM
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Electric-man
537 posts
Aug 28, 2007
11:57 PM
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You know it!
Val
"Site Moderator"
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Steve_uk
215 posts
Aug 29, 2007
9:13 AM
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I no a guy who eats his racing pigeons regular he boils them in a stew.
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DUCKS N ROLLERS
38 posts
Aug 29, 2007
9:21 AM
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Steve,
you know Hannable "The cannible" Lector?
Mike
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nicksiders
2111 posts
Aug 29, 2007
9:44 AM
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In another time in this country pigeon was a common part of meals in most households. Our Rollers are too small to be of real value on the table, but I once raised Kings just to eat. They are a meat bird that was bred to be on the dinner table. Now they are primarily exhibition birds. Some of the finer resturants have "Squab" on thier menu which is another word for pigeon and it is most generally Kings or Modenas. If you hunt and eat Dove; then you are hunting and eating pigeon.
After plucking them I still like to skin them; the skin brings on a very gamey taste.
Good eating fellas; just ask your local hawk population.
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Nick
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classicpony
341 posts
Aug 29, 2007
10:16 AM
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YUK !
Jim
@donteatmypets
Last Edited by on Aug 29, 2007 10:17 AM
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Skylineloft
100 posts
Aug 29, 2007
10:28 AM
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Val,
The breast meat rapped in bacon sounds real good.
Grain fed, how can you go wrong.
What if you use a marinade, let it soak for 8 to 12 hours.
Then BBQ with bacon and a BBQ sauce.
YUM YUM.....
Ray
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tapp
294 posts
Aug 29, 2007
10:32 AM
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Good ain't they Nick. Sure beats wasteing them. There will probably come a time when we wish we had anything to eat!All kidding aside I've ate pigeon since the early 60's. County boy's can survive!
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Tapp
Last Edited by on Aug 29, 2007 10:33 AM
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classicpony
342 posts
Aug 29, 2007
10:34 AM
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YUK !
Jim
@stilldonteatmypets
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Electric-man
538 posts
Aug 29, 2007
1:25 PM
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Ray, guarenteed happiness! The bacon will take any of the wild taste out, which shouldn't be much with grain fed!It will also keep the meat from tasting dry. Its a great way to eat pheasant and duck, heard its the only way to eat goose too!
Gawd dang, I'm hungry!
Val
"Site Moderator"
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SiDLoVE
67 posts
Aug 29, 2007
2:18 PM
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deep fried pigeon with salsa tortillas...lemon salt....or a pigeon pot pie...LOL
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nicksiders
2113 posts
Aug 29, 2007
2:22 PM
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I betcha ol' Chey can cook up a good mess of pigeons!
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Nick
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
194 posts
Aug 29, 2007
3:48 PM
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Hey sky cullem ,remove all feathers deguttem wash.. pepper and salt slap on bbque pit.........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
my dad makes pigeon stew with all the trimmings ..thats home made .lol
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rollerpigeon1963
195 posts
Aug 29, 2007
6:00 PM
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Here is one for you all:
PIGEON POT PIE
Simmer 2 dressed pigeons until tender in salted water. Remove bones and cut meat into pieces. In a separate kettle place 2 carrot, 1 large onion, 1 potato, all diced, and cook until tender in a minimum of water. When pigeons and vegetables are cooked, combine and place in a 3 inch deep baking dish, using most of the liquid. Top with Oven Biscuit Topping and bake at 375 degrees until biscuits are done, about 20 minutes. Serves 3.
OVEN BISCUIT TOPPING:
2 c. flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. shortening
1 scant c. milk
Combine dry ingredients. Cut in shortening. Add milk. Roll dough, cut biscuits and place on top of pigeons and vegetables. Vegetables and meat mixture should be hot before placing biscuits on top. Serves 3-4.
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Electric-man
539 posts
Aug 29, 2007
6:18 PM
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Welllll doggies!
Add some possum jowels and some little owl burgers and what a meal! LOL
No seriously, my wife is a master at pot pies, Ill have to get her to try this one!
Thanks Brian!
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Val
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jammerlofts
106 posts
Aug 29, 2007
7:56 PM
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hey guys
just so the newby lol in the sport dont take all this pigeon eating on all to fast. just remember guys, if you give your birds boosters and other meds i would not eat them. you would be sorry you did. now i have never had pigeon. yet, but i do have a book that has lots of recipe,s for it. maybe i will take a photo of the page or pages and post it. this book is from i think 1912
jc
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Electric-man
542 posts
Aug 29, 2007
9:11 PM
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Whats up Joe, haven't heard from ya in forever!
You think there is anything worse in our pigeons than what they put in chickens and cows? LOL
What the heck are you puttin in your birds anyways? LOL
I would look more in to your water supply up there, I remember that picture of your neighbor from up the road! Somethin ain't right there, Joe! LOL
Val
Last Edited by on Aug 29, 2007 9:37 PM
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Skylineloft
102 posts
Aug 30, 2007
10:00 AM
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Joe,
That would be great.
I would love to see the them old recipes.
Ray
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
195 posts
Aug 30, 2007
10:16 AM
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Hey ray i will post a couple of pics of
bbque pigeon right in my back yard..
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Skylineloft
103 posts
Aug 30, 2007
11:34 AM
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Your making me hungry Rudy.
I can see them on your grill now..lol
Ray
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jammerlofts
107 posts
Aug 30, 2007
4:52 PM
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RECIPE #1 PIGEON SOUP WITH CURRY
This is one of the most delicious and nourishing soups of our cuisine. The following quantities of materials will provide soup for 6 people.
2 large pigeons cleaned, singed and each divided into 4 pieces
2 large chopped onions
2 large soup spoon fulls of butter
3 soup spoon fulls of curry powder
5 pints of water
1/2 oz salt
a bouquet of parsley sprigs
a bay leaf
mite of garlic (optional)
6 to 8 tablespoons of rice
melt butter in sauce pan, add onion and let cook on gentle fire. Add pigeons and cook for 10 to 12 minutes with the onion. Then pour curry powder over them. stir it all with a spoon and add the water, salt, and the bouquet of parsley bay leaf and garlic. Bring to a boil and cover the saucepan. After 15 minutes of cooking add the rice and let it 20 to 25 minutes. Serve...
ENJOY!!!
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jammerlofts
108 posts
Aug 30, 2007
4:58 PM
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RECIPE #2 PIGEON AND BARLEY SOUP
Serves 6
2 large pigeons cleaned singed and divided into 4 parts
1 large finely chopped onion
2 medium carrots cut into little squares
6 to 8 TBls cleaned barley
2 large soup spoon fulls of butter
a pinch of pepper
bay leaf
3 pints of water
melt butter in saucepan, add onion and let cook over gentle fire. Then add pigeons cooking them 8 to 10 minutes with the onion. Add carrots barley water salt pepper and bay leaf. Cover saucepan and let boil on a gentle fire for about 1 hour 15 minutes.
ENJOY
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jammerlofts
109 posts
Aug 30, 2007
5:04 PM
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RECIPE #3 ESTOUFFADE OF SQUABS (SQUAB STEW)
take 2 or 3 squabs cleaned and prepared for cooking but not tied up. Roast them lightly, and then put them in a terrin (a deep earthware dish). Add a glass of cognac (lol optional for AA members lol) and a glass of white wine, boil for several seconds and then pour it all over the pigeons. surround the pigeons with several little onions browned in butter and 20 mushrooms that have been cut into quarters and sauteed in butter. season with salt and pepper. Add several tablespoons of Good gravy. Lay over the pigeons several slices of bacon that have been slightly browned in butter. Cover the terrine, close and cook in a gentle fire for 50 minutes and serve.
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jammerlofts
110 posts
Aug 30, 2007
5:08 PM
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There is more to come but the book I have is extremely fine print so I can't send a picture I have to type each one out. It is a good start but here is a sneaK peak of the recipes still to come....
CREAM OF PIGEON SOUP
PIGEON AND TOMATO SOUP
PIGEON AND PEA SOUP A LA PAYSANNE
PIGEON SAUTE A LA PAYSANNE
ESTOUFFADE OF SQUAB A LA CAVALIERI
PIGEON SALAD
AND MAYBE EVEN ONE OR TWO MORE LOL
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Skylineloft
109 posts
Aug 30, 2007
5:45 PM
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Jim,
Thanks for the recipes.
I have to copy these.
There great.
You never know when you will need them.
Ray
Last Edited by on Aug 30, 2007 5:46 PM
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splitter
17 posts
Aug 31, 2007
3:23 AM
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Hey Guys! Up here in michigan we smoke pigeon. Take your culls and breast them out. soak in cup of salt and a gallon of apple cider over night. Rub with season salt and wrapp bacon around each breast. Put in a smoker at 180degrees. smoke with apple wood. About one hour or till inside breast is 165degrees. Take out!! I enjoy it fresh out of the oven. The wife and kids like it cold on crakers and cheese.Up here nothing goes to waste. I don't feed my birds chemicals. Just apple cider vinegar and garil in water. Cod liver oil and brewwers yeast on feed. Always fed grain never tried pellets.ENJOY!!!!
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Skylineloft
113 posts
Aug 31, 2007
11:50 AM
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Splitter,
I think I will need to invest in a smoker......lol
Ray
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BigBob
8 posts
Aug 31, 2007
1:30 PM
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I was telling an aquaintance of mine about my birds and he said he grew up in what was called German Town in Louisville Kentucky. All the time he was growing up his Grandfather and his father raised pigeons for one reason only. To Eat. He said his mother could use pigeon in about 30 different recipies and that they never got tired of it. He said they went to Indianapolis one time for a funeral of a relative and after the funeral they all went to his Uncles house for dinner. They had a lot of fried chicken, and after eating it he told his father that they needed to buy some of his uncles pigeons because they were a lot bigger than theirs were and tasted better. He said that was the first time he had eaten fried chicken. He said he hasn't had pigeon for about 40 years but if he could find someone that could fix it like his mother did he would like to try it again.
The man that sold me my first domestic pigeons showed pigeons and all of his culls went into the freezer. His wife would make stews and those pot pies out of them. He also liked them baked with the bacon around them. I tried them once and it tasted just like chicken to me.
If I'm not mistaken that is the reason pigeons were domesticated in the first place. Same way with rabbits. I read somewhere that over in Europe they had domesticated pigeons in their attics and they would let them fly free loft and go out and gleen the fields and then they would eat their young. Seems like it would make for a real cheap source of protien back then.
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Big Bob
Fire Tower Roller Lofts
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tapp
296 posts
Aug 31, 2007
6:40 PM
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Hey Spliter, I'm going to try to make it up the 9th. Smoke up a few. Wait till after your fly then you might have a few exrta to smoke!!! Just kidding! Good luck next Saturday. PS, Just picked up a smoker at a yard sale, used once $15.00
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Tapp
Last Edited by on Aug 31, 2007 6:43 PM
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Skylineloft
121 posts
Sep 02, 2007
7:43 PM
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Well,
The three day weekend is here and it was time to pull out the BBQ.
Tritip and squab.
LOL.......No, just Tritip and albacore.
The food was great.
Thanks for all the recipes you guys sent. I will keep everyone
and hope to try them someday.
I live in LA where we have to prepare for earthquakes.
I keep plenty of water, propane and canned goods on the property
just in case we have a big one.
I also know that I will be one of the only people in the area with fresh meat if this ever happens......lol
Nothing like being prepared.
I hope everyone is enjoying there three day weekend.
Ray
Last Edited by on Sep 03, 2007 9:25 AM
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
212 posts
Sep 03, 2007
3:22 PM
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LOOOKS GREAT RAY.....
MANNNNNNN...i started with the bbque pictures then velo99,now u ray.....lol
we all need to get together and have a buffet........lmao
RUDY
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chandlerTX
69 posts
Sep 03, 2007
9:50 PM
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Haven't had the heart to do it to mine yet, but a 1/3 slice of jalapeno over the breast and wrapped in bacon with a little barbque sauce at the end of cooking has always worked great for me after dove hunting. Chad
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nicksiders
2128 posts
Sep 04, 2007
9:19 AM
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Ya just can't get a piece of tri tip here. They grind it up here. I think tri tip is a California thing. The best tri tip sandwich I ever had was in Sactamento at the Rivercat's game. They are a Tripple A baseball team for the Oakland A's. Had to eat two, it was that good.
Where did you picture go? You handsome devil you; my wife was going to frame it and hang it on the wall.
Nick
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BigRiverRollerLofts
Last Edited by on Sep 04, 2007 9:23 AM
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kopetsa
1051 posts
Jun 30, 2008
3:51 PM
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THIS TOPIC IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! AND SHOULD BE REMOVED! I DISAGREE WE SHOULD "EAT OUR BIRDS" COMPLETELY..
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Andrew
Last Edited by on Jun 30, 2008 3:59 PM
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gotspin7
1414 posts
Jun 30, 2008
5:29 PM
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Wow am I hungry! Lol
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Sal Ortiz
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
1842 posts
Jun 30, 2008
5:33 PM
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I love eating Squab............
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Ty Coleman
427 posts
Jun 30, 2008
5:34 PM
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Andrew watch out for flack lol
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Ty
Vapor Trail Lofts
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kopetsa
1056 posts
Jun 30, 2008
6:25 PM
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lol Ty what the deuce is flack??
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Andrew
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Ty Coleman
429 posts
Jun 30, 2008
6:46 PM
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A term used in war times similiar to shrapnell. Artillery shells shot in the air
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Ty
Vapor Trail Lofts
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Snake Doctor
294 posts
Jun 30, 2008
6:54 PM
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If you skin em out you don't have to worry with the pin feathers and you won't have to singe them, marinate over night in Zesty Italian Dressing, stuff with Jalapeno, wrap in bacon, salt, cayenne pepper, be sure to cook slow and keep moist, they get tough and chewy if they dry out!
Any recipe' for poultry or fowl will work, they are dark meat though.
"Alon manger Accadian!"
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"Semper Fi"
SD
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