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St Augustine alligator farm still exists and still is a major attraction.
Bill V

Skizzity wrote:

reible wrote:What ever happen to the farms they use to have like this one?

farm.jpg

The title was: A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, FL 1926

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Ed

LOL. Love the no trespassing sign. You gotta grow another pair of eyes in the back of your head to work there. Different world back then...

They all look well fed so as to not be looking for a meal.

Lighter Cream Sauce great on Chick Breast, fish with white flesh, gator, and pork tenderloin.
1 bunch green onion/scallions.
juice of one lemon
1 cup white wine
1-2 Tbls butter
1 cup cream
1 Sage leaf
2 Tbls Non-Pareils Capers rinsed
White pepper and salt to taste

Slice scallions into 1/4" pieces half way to green fork or a tich higher.
Saute into melted butter under low-med heat for 2-3 minutes.
Add lemon juice, white wine and sage leaf and reduce to 2/3rds-1/2
Remove sage leaf
Pull from heat, let cool for a few minutes, add cream, reheat on low and reduce a bit, add Capers, S&P, serve over the above meat.
2nd recipe on the next post

I may have told this before but, when we moved to Florida we had a small gator in our pond. It was so scared even a slight move and he was gone. Someone told us to feed marshmallows to him. We did and soon had a regular visitor.

Move ahead a few years and this gator would lay in the back yard, if I wanted to mow or something I would tose an orange at him and he would jump back into the pond.

Move a few more years forward to get him to move required a direct hit with a chunk of fire wood.

One day I saw him sneaking up a slight grade after a white Egret, I called my wife to the window and said look at the idiot gator trying to catch that bird. He was about 30 feet from him and could not get closer without exposing himself to the bird. I saw him croinching down to launch his attack.

Well in an instant he had covered the 30+ feet. He didn't get the bird but he got feathers. That is when we decided to have him removed. The county gator hunter came out, rigged a huge hook with a beef lung. The next day the gator was caught. Hunter taped the gator's mouth shut and walked him to his truck. Got a ball peen hammer smacked him in the head and that was that. Gator was about 12+ feet. Hunter and county split hide money and the hunter sells the gator meat to restaurants and keeps the money.

From all this I learned one thing there is no way I could out run a gator. My only hope would be if he slipped in my crap as I was trying to run away.

ERLover wrote:Lighter Cream Sauce great on Chick Breast, fish with white flesh, gator, and pork tenderloin.
1 bunch green onion/scallions.
juice of one lemon
1 cup white wine
1-2 Tbls butter
1 cup cream
1 Sage leaf
2 Tbls Non-Pareils Capers rinsed
White pepper and salt to taste

Slice scallions into 1/4" pieces half way to green fork or a tich higher.
Saute into melted butter under low-med heat for 2-3 minutes.
Add lemon juice, white wine and sage leaf and reduce to 2/3rds-1/2
Remove sage leaf

Pull from heat, let cool for a few minutes, add cream, reheat on low and reduce a bit, add Capers, S&P, serve over the above meat.
2nd recipe on the next post

Ya all are silly, you don't put any cream sauce on gator meat! You bread it, deep fry it and you eat it! You might want some cocktail sauce to dip it in.

And yes I have eaten more than my fair share of gator.

Ed in Tampa wrote:I may have told this before but, when we moved to Florida we had a small gator in our pond. It was so scared even a slight move and he was gone. Someone told us to feed marshmallows to him. We did and soon had a regular visitor.

Move ahead a few years and this gator would lay in the back yard, if I wanted to mow or something I would tose an orange at him and he would jump back into the pond.

Move a few more years forward to get him to move required a direct hit with a chunk of fire wood.

One day I saw him sneaking up a slight grade after a white Egret, I called my wife to the window and said look at the idiot gator trying to catch that bird. He was about 30 feet from him and could not get closer without exposing himself to the bird. I saw him croinching down to launch his attack.

Well in an instant he had covered the 30+ feet. He didn't get the bird but he got feathers. That is when we decided to have him removed. The county gator hunter came out, rigged a huge hook with a beef lung. The next day the gator was caught. Hunter taped the gator's mouth shut and walked him to his truck. Got a ball peen hammer smacked him in the head and that was that. Gator was about 12+ feet. Hunter and county split hide money and the hunter sells the gator meat to restaurants and keeps the money.

From all this I learned one thing there is no way I could out run a gator. My only hope would be if he slipped in my crap as I was trying to run away.

I've heard that you can't outrun a gator, but that they are lousy at turning. So you have to jump sideways to avoid becoming gator food. True?

I did have some gater sticks, like beef sticks but different meat and a lot of spices so I have no idea what it tastes like but fried sounds good, maybe some shrimp cocktail sauce......

Just got home about 6 minutes ago and waiting on the rice to get done for some orange chicken and rice (with carrots). Hungry!

Ed

BuckeyeDennis wrote:

Ed in Tampa wrote:I may have told this before but, when we moved to Florida we had a small gator in our pond. It was so scared even a slight move and he was gone. Someone told us to feed marshmallows to him. We did and soon had a regular visitor.

Move ahead a few years and this gator would lay in the back yard, if I wanted to mow or something I would tose an orange at him and he would jump back into the pond.

Move a few more years forward to get him to move required a direct hit with a chunk of fire wood.

One day I saw him sneaking up a slight grade after a white Egret, I called my wife to the window and said look at the idiot gator trying to catch that bird. He was about 30 feet from him and could not get closer without exposing himself to the bird. I saw him croinching down to launch his attack.

Well in an instant he had covered the 30+ feet. He didn't get the bird but he got feathers. That is when we decided to have him removed. The county gator hunter came out, rigged a huge hook with a beef lung. The next day the gator was caught. Hunter taped the gator's mouth shut and walked him to his truck. Got a ball peen hammer smacked him in the head and that was that. Gator was about 12+ feet. Hunter and county split hide money and the hunter sells the gator meat to restaurants and keeps the money.

From all this I learned one thing there is no way I could out run a gator. My only hope would be if he slipped in my crap as I was trying to run away.

I've heard that you can't outrun a gator, but that they are lousy at turning. So you have to jump sideways to avoid becoming gator food. True?

Makes more sense than taking a dump!

Cream, Dijon Mustard, mushroom sauce, This like a Holindais sauce with Dijon Mustard and Mushrooms. A bit heavy for white fresh fish, great and chick, but great on Gator, Skate Wings, a Ray, Pork or Beef Tenderloin.
4 Tbls Butter
Flour to cover meat.
1/2 cup chopped Shallots or onions, Shallots are preferred for there slight garlic taste.
8-12 whole black pepper corns.
1/3rd cup white vinegar.
2 cups heavy cream.
1/3rd cup Dijon Mustard
2 Tbls butter
4-6 oz of slice mushrooms, more to your taste.
3 Tlsp butter
White pepper and salt to taste.
Toss meat in the 4 cups of flour, I cut the pork or beef tenderloin into medallions, about 1" thick, gator into large junks, Skate wings whole.
In the 4 Tbls butter, saute them to rare-medium rare, then in the saute pan put in the oven at a pre heated oven temp of 275*F
Now with the other things prepped melt the other 2 Tbls butter in a saute pan, add the shallots/onions and mushrooms, under low heat, sweat them, 3-5 minutes, add the vinegar and pepper corns, bring to a boil for about a minute, remove from heat, let cool for a few minutes, add the cream, reduce 1/3rd under low heat, add mustard, mix, add pepper and salt to taste.
Now meat should be at about med rare to medium, serve with sauce over it, if your taste likes meat further done, have oven at 300* instead of 275*

reible wrote:What ever happen to the farms they use to have like this one?

farm.jpg

The title was: A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, FL 1926

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Ed

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