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I've eaten batter fried gator tail chunks with a side of swamp cabbage. MMmmm good. Tastes a lot like fried chicken and cole slaw.

Fried Gator tail


2 lbs alligator tail steaks (steaks or chunks)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup flour
2 cups cornmeal
oil (for deep frying, peanut is best)
Directions:
1salt and pepper alligator meat set aside mix flour, corn meal, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, powdered milk.2heat oil to about 400F in deep fryer dredge meat pieces in flour mixture fry for about 3 to 5 minutes until brown overcooking will make tough put cooked pieces on paper towel to drain serve with favorite dipping sauce.



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Swamp Cabbage

1. First you must chop down a palm tree. This isn't nearly as easy as it sounds, these trees are tough. I had thought that only a Cabbage palm could be used, but have been told that even a scrub palmetto is suitable. You can certainly get one easier...people object to your cutting down a Cabbage palm, but they will pay you to remove a scrub palmetto.

With point "A" being the part of the tree where the palm fronds emerge from the trunk, chop down about 12 inches to point "B" to find the heart of the palm. This is the only part you keep.

"C" shows the heart - cut off the top and bottom.

2. Place the heart in a container with the following ingredients and refrigerate.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp Alum
• 1/4 cup Kosher salt
• 1/4 cup raw sugar
• 1 cup white vinegar
• 3 cups water
• 1 tbsp minced garlic



3. Let soak for 5-7 days, then drain this mixture off.

4. Put the hearts snugly in Mason jars and pour on Italian dressing to cover them. Wait 7 more days.

5. Eat them all.

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Yea, and Rocky Mountain Oysters taste like shrimp.

But gator tail has much more appeal.

Yes, tail is better than oysters.

Those glades boys are part cowboy part redneck or full blooded American Indian. These are some hard partying tough muthas that can survive in the wild just like it was everyday livin. Me being a spoiled city boy that ain't too fond of insect bites, snakes, things that go bump in the night not to forget lack of a firm mattress, controlled temperatures, cable TV, internet, the ability to to cook on demand and access to flushable toilet, I guess I'll let them good ol boys do what they do best. Just don't forget to call me for the gathering.

PS I've been invited to places that some of you would go in the drop of a hat. I've been invited to hunting expeditions in some of the finest hunting areas. The most exotic was to a hunting camp on an island up by Kodiak Alaska. Fly in, fly out in this guys personal plane. He showed me a pic of a world record pending grizzly his son took down, Told me stories that made my skin crawl. Showed me pics of damage done by bears trying to get in. Big bears. Big hungry bears. Also showed me pics of huge fish and big bucks. Just don't have it in me anymore. Where were these offers when I was 20 sumthin, fearless and had abs of steel? Now that I'm overweight, out of shape and have more areas that ache than areas that don't, people want to ask me to do things.
Come to think of it .... when I was 20 sumthin I used to do em. Now I just say .... "Let me think about it.".