Arthur Boyt has no time for complicated new year diet plans or fashionable detox programmes. He reckons the healthiest and cheapest way to get back on track after festive overindulgence is to head out with a shovel and find a squashed badger.
Boyt, a retired biologist, has spent the past 50 years scraping weasels, hedgehogs, squirrels and even otters off roads near his Cornish home, and cooking them.
He has published recipe books and appeared on television cookery shows across the world and has now published his ideas for badger casserole…
His casserole is made using a roadkill badger, skinned and boiled, with broccoli, parsnips, potatoes, tomatoes and wild mushrooms. “Just because it hasn’t got a label on doesn’t mean it’s not edible,” he said. “I’ve been doing it all my life and never been ill once. The family will be amazed and there will be no tyre mark on the meat.”
This ain’t a new idea. One of my ex-wives lives in the California Sierras – keeps a thermometer in the car to check the temperature of roadkill. You can judge how recently it became “available”.
Yet another reason why folks preferred my cooking over hers.
Most small game is a waste of time unless your desperate or looking to cook at a niche dive in the wall. That moose, now that’s road kill.
yum
eh, I’ll stick with my fav, Asphault Annie’s “Cooking with Roadkill”, she makes Juilia Child, and Emeril look like amatures.
The best roadkill story!!
I was working with our very own “dead eye Trent the white hunter”. While we were going north with our train(we’re engineers!), a deer was unlucky enough to get hit. Trent, being the character he is backed up (the freight train!) and insisted that I help him get the carcass up on the nose of the locomotive. His only comment was “MM-MM, freezer’s empty, kid! It’s venison on the menu tonight!)
Mmmmm. Chili!
I won’t eat roadkill unless I can read the license plate of the vehicle that killed it. That way I know it’s fresh.
Chinese have been doing that for years. You never find old road kill.
My wife and I took two Chinese on a road trip in the US and they were both surprised to see OLD road kill.
Chinese believe that wild animals are better tasting and better for you then farmed ones.
Cheers
For other appetites, watch the 1989 movie Roadkill, starring Valerie Buhagiar as Ramona.
Why am I not surprised? The Chinese (in the south at least) also believe that beating an animal while alive will make it taste better. And they think nothing of boiling an animal alive.
(Flipped through the channels and come across a documentary showing an Asian chef smack a cat on the head, dip it in boiling water to remove the fur, etc…Sick.)
I’ve eaten at the restaurant in the picture, between the Grand Canyon (south side) and Hoover dam. No real roadkill on the menu, tho.
#10….this place used to sell Tequila flavored lolly pop’s with scorpions in them.
I’ve been known to drive around the desert looking for Havalina roadkill….the meat is to die for. 🙂