Cat tails and frogs

[ecko]

Well, I have heard rumors that you can cook cattails and they taste like potatos? is this true? If so...how do you cook them?


One more thing, how exactly do you prepare and eat a frog?
There are no poisonous frogs over here, so I don't think I would have to worry about poison frogs.

Although don't alot have diseases?

[owl_girl]

You can cook cattail. No part of the cattail is poisonous. My brother cooked and eat the flower spike in early spring and said it tasted like potato. You can boil or roast the flower spike. You can also boil the roots.

[wareagle69]

i used to run out and but all the books on survival and wild edibles i could find i have accumalated quite a library for good reference but since the loonie and greenback have hit parity and the book stores haven't i rely on google

i google ever question i can think of and then print it off for my own book but nothing beats experience i write down all my experiments in another folder, this is my suggestion to you.


always be prepared....

[MCBushbaby]

You can eat the roots raw, dried and crushed into powder to add to soups, or boiled. Boiled they can be prepared like a potato. Roots are best harvested in the later autumn to early spring as they have the most starch then.

The young shoots can be eaten raw or cooked. Likewise with the base of the mature stem (remove the outer bark first). The immature flowering spike can be eaten raw or cooked into a soup, the seeds can be roasted and eaten like shucked sunflower seeds, and the pollen can be brushed into flour for extra protein.

The leaves should not be eaten; they are best used as thatch.

Frogs are best roasted, in my opinion. You can boil them to get them perfectly cooked but they retain a little "froggy" taste. If you do boil them, roast them over some hot coals to singe the flesh and to pronounce the chicken flavor. To prepare them, cut the belly and gut them. Stick on a stick and roast away. Eat the back legs and some of the back muscle, the front legs may be too small to get anything off.

[ecko]

Awesome! thanks for telling me, but how do you gut the frog?

[Sarge47]

Awesome! thanks for telling me, but how do you gut the frog?

With a knife, of course. Didn't you take Biology in High School?

[wareagle69]

what's high school?

[ecko]

Well obviously with a knife. But there are certain methods.

In which I would like to know if you just slice down the belly, then just pull out the guts?

I dont know...

[Sarge47]

Well obviously with a knife. But there are certain methods.

In which I would like to know if you just slice down the belly, then just pull out the guts?

I dont know...

You can do that, also you can just cut the hind legs off and peel the skin away, if you wish. I used to soak mine in salt water for a few hours to held soak out anything like the "frog" taste. I only used the back legs. Uh, BTW, the "knife" bit was a joke!

[trax]

Cattail root and seeds can also be ground up into a kind of flour. About cooking frogs...is there nothing else available?

[explodingearth]

why got the frog? just squeeze out the poop and youre good? guts are extra meat

[Beo]

Well the cattail root is very good, I agree with Mitch.Chesney and Trax, but damn I hate frog. There's gotta be more to eat than frogs. But that's just because I hate frog.

[trax]

why got the frog? just squeeze out the poop and youre good? guts are extra meat

I've never eaten frog and I'm not in any hurry to, however with animals of...shall we say greater substance, gutting is essential because of the risk of disease from several animal parts that weren't meant to be digested by our delicate systems. Consequently, my guess is that gutting frogs is for the same reason.

But I'm really in agreement with Beowulf, there must be something else to eat, lol (of course if it was necessary I'd swallow the beasties raw to stay alive)

[explodingearth]

trax what are all the parts of an animal that are NOT usable? i wouldnt want to waste any part of a creature i killed if i didnt have to. maybe you could fill me in on some uses for the various parts other than the meat? and what guts are generally ok to eat?

[trax]

Organ meat (liver and kidneys) is ok to eat, or if it looks "iffy" to you then chances are the whole critter is contaminated. The intestines, stomach and lining, brains are all useful for things other than food. You're never going to get anything from the stomach to the anus clean enough to eat, and it's all going to be chew but no swallow, like trying to eat rubber, but you can use the material for all kinds of things, rope, containers, etc. You can probably clean the stomach out good enough to make a water carrier, the brains are used for tanning the hide. Lungs and trachea are pretty much waste as far as I know.

If you down an animal and it's got yellowish spots on the liver, it's diseased, don't eat the meat. Same if there's lumps on the flesh or on the lungs...critter's got cancer dude, burn it.

[FVR]

Ecko,

Where ya from?

Only poisonous frogs I know of is S. America. When we were in Panama we were taught that any small glossy shiny frog, stay the heck away as they were the poison ones. I enjoy going to the Atl. zoo every now and then, they have a good display of poison dart frogs.

[explodingearth]

poison frogs can be used to tip your arrows or darts. if youre careful i mean. you can just rub the tip of your arrow over their skin as far as i know. dont even have to kill them or touch them... assuming they stand still while you tip your arrows

[trax]

what's high school?

Yer gonna have to learn about that stuff, bro. You can't deprive Norm of a higher education

[jose lobo]

you can lick a poison dart frog, you can hold it in your hand ,even in your mouth, but you can not let the poison for there gland get in any way into your blood stream,,
they do make great poison for sure,, and if it get into your blood, there is nothing the doc, can do for you.
but if you are in the jungle there are much more poising plants that work the same way,, or even more new improved ways.

[corndog-44]

Bullfrog legs are good eating. The backs are good, too. Just leave the backs attached to the legs. Taste like frogs. Use the waste for bait to catch a mess of crawdads to eat. Or maybe a catfish or two.