Groundhog recipe

[Bruinbow]

Who has a good groundhog recipe ?

Something more than just drowning it in BBQ sauce .

[Barney]

Might try a post/search in the recipe section a little further down          

[dink]

do just like i cook rabbit cut in quarters brown in skillet with butter put in crock pot

[Lefty]

Bone meat, place in crockpot with onions, carrots, potatoes, seasoning and one can of coke.  Cook on low most of the day, serve with homemade biscuits and honey butter.

Y'all eat groundhogs?????

I have never even seen one except on TV on Groundhog Day!

Bisch

[Bruinbow]

Lefty : That one sounds good .  

[robtattoo]

Burgers! Mixed 50/50 With Beaver, A Little Bacon Fat & Dried Milk As A Binder & I Swear, You'll Never EaT Better!

I Swear, This Phone Is Killing Me With The Stupid Capitalizations!

[Bruinbow]

robtattoo : That sounds good too , only problem is not to many beaver here in SW Michigan and seasons not open year round like it is for groundhog .  

[Tony Sanders]

X2 what Lefty said.

[Slickhead]

Ive always wanted to try eating ground hog.
Maybe I can get one this years and try it.
I heard that the best way is in a smoker with a dry rub.
Renders a lot of the fat out.

[Troy D. Breeding]

I always thought you just cooked it like any other ground burrowing rat. Cook till well done then throw it out and eat the pan.    

Troy

[Gene Wensel]

I can't say as I've ever ate a groundhog but I grew up where there were lots of them in pre-coyote days and killed way more than my share. I was just a boy when my dad told me woodchuck liver is the best liver in the world. I saved their livers whenever I remembered to carry a plastic bag and have eaten dozens of them fried. I have to admit, I'm not a big liver fan but groundhog liver is the best liver you'll ever eat. Very mild.

[Red Beastmaster]

"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms"...Outlaw Josey Wales.

I missed one last week with my longbow. It was living under a compost pile made up of several dead cows, manure, old hay, and dirt. Anybody wanna eat that one when I eventually kill him this summer?

[Zbone]

Red Beastmaster – Yeah, they stink bad enough without the compose pile for me to try and skin one again.

Speaking of, how many have ever tried skinning one, gotta be the toughest hide on earth per volume...

Some locals say ya gotta eat them when they young, but I tried a young one years ago and couldn't stomach it and to never try again.

Some fur trappers marinate meat chunks in a jar in the sun for bait.

[Red Beastmaster]

Zbone

I hear you. The only way I even touch one is to stand on it to pull my arrow out.

They probably do taste OK if prepared right. They certainly eat better than a chicken, and you know what they eat!

[tracker12]

Originally posted by Red Beastmaster:
Zbone

I hear you. The only way I even touch one is to stand on it to pull my arrow out.

They probably do taste OK if prepared right. The certainly eat better than a chicken, and you know what they eat!

+1  I could never eat one after going thu the smell during the skinning process.

[3undr]

i'm with Troy lol  round here we just feed the buzzards with them

[findbows]

Whistle pig first if there over 8 lbs I smoke for 2 hours then put them in a crock until the falls off the bone. Then debone and make BBQ you will love it. I cook raccoon  the same way. The young whistle pig I will cook in the oven debone and make pot pie.

[Doc Nock]

Groundhogs are vegetarian, Beastie Boy...

Aside from their abode, what would make them stink so bad? You guys gut shoot em or what??

Grandpap made us eat anything we killed... I ate more ground hog than I knew how to count visiting the farm over the summer for 2 weeks of heaven at a time! that ole .22 in the head made short work of them crop eaters.

Them buggars got 6 scent glands...looks like grey marble fat under each leg AND...between the shoulder blades.

Separate knife to cut them all out, parboil with parsley and onion for 45 min on simmer and then bread and bake like "shake-n-bake" and they're pretty darn good eating.  Or fried.

I quit eating them when I got my first .22-250 and picked one up that sounded like a bag of marbles, but looking forward to some bow kills for victuals again..

Being vegetarian, their fat smells just like Vit E...and my buddy's Slovene grandma would render the fat for the Vit E for her rheumatism! (rub, not ingest)

When young are first kicked outa the nest, they make great Grill Fare...just get all that fat off them before cooking...Vit E taste does not make for palatable fare

[Rod Witkos]

I parboil mine with a 1/4 cup of vinegar then throw them on the grill quartered. That seems to take the grassy taste away.
I try to get them in the spring before they get much fat back on them. The livers are tasty to if you like liver.