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My SIL frying up frog legs. But....I told him he needed to cut the feet off and cut them apart cause it looks like I see frog butts.
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I always cut the legs apart and cut the feet off. Some people will just batter and fry them. I lay them out after cleaning them then cover with salt, they will do some quivering and jerking for a little while. I then rinse the salt off and soak in salt water in the fridg over night. Batter them bad boys up the next morning, fry them and have them with thickening gravy and hot biscuits.
I sure do miss frog huntin. I have several stories about frog huntin. lol
I sure do miss frog huntin. I have several stories about frog huntin. lol
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I haven't had frog legs since I was a little kid. No big frogs here that I know of.
I've always enjoyed frog legs. Never saw anyone fix them with the feet still on. Ate frog legs somewhat regular when I lived in fla. Here in northeast tenn there are 2 restaurants [that I know of] within 25 miles that serve frog legs. One doesn't know how to fix them but the other does a great job.
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If you eat frog legs at a restaurant and the frog legs look yellowish, they are freezer burned and will not taste all that good. Good fresh frog legs taste much better, like a fresh caught flathead does. You won't get flathead at a restaurant though. There are some fair size wild frogs here in the southeastern part of Tennessee, and back in West Tennessee there are some really good sized ones.
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These are Indiana frog legs. I don’t know but more likely my g’son went frog gigging than his dad. We used to have a sporting goods store and sold hunting licenses. Do you need any kind of license for frogs?
I come from a family that would eat almost anything but never lived in a place where we could get big frogs. There are a couple of places here in Maine where big frogs live but they are so spooky all you see is the splash, splash, splash, when they exit. I know they are big as I saw one flat road kill once and he was huge.
Love the thread but will never find one on my dinner plate, darn.
But agree, those in the pot look a bit gross.
Bud
Love the thread but will never find one on my dinner plate, darn.
But agree, those in the pot look a bit gross.
Bud
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I was right. My g’son caught these an cleaned them. I’m not going to be the one to suggest cutting feet off.
Jim, yes they’re good. We had friends who lived ‘off the land.’ They invited us to dinner and I heard them whisper not to tell me what one thing was or I wouldn’t eat it. I ate whatever it was, said the name, and told them it was good! (but cringed inside)
Jim, yes they’re good. We had friends who lived ‘off the land.’ They invited us to dinner and I heard them whisper not to tell me what one thing was or I wouldn’t eat it. I ate whatever it was, said the name, and told them it was good! (but cringed inside)
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Yeah me too, I wanna know what it being served.
I made frog legs once, didn’t eat them just cooked them.
We have bull frogs in our pond right now, one is so loud you can
hear him from a block away...he sounds like a real bull!
Big Jim, do you hunt them at night with a flash light? The head
groundskeeper goes out every night with a flashlight to check on the
bull frogs...They lay around in the shallow section catching all kinds
of insects at night.
We had a female bull frog one year that was tame,
We wrote a story about it, I’ll find the story for you...
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Joann, the only time to hunt frogs is at night, with no moon. If a frog sees you, they are gone. It is really easy to pick a frog up by hand. Keep the bright light on the frog, don't let your hands or feet get into the light at all or the frog will be gone. Ease in close to the frog, then quickly just grab him, I always had better luck grabbing in a swinging motion instead of reach and grab. You have to be quite also, they are skittish.
If hunting instead of gigging, use hollow points, they don't ricochet as bad.
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That is interesting about frog hunting at night without a full moon.
What’s giggling?
Well then, my frog Budweiser was an anomaly, she was visible all the time.
She was used to us and did not shy away from us,
and she was darn smart too...
Sadly, we had to take her to our fishing hole after I witnessed
her eating a bird. She got so big and fat that I could roll her around with a stick,
really!
Did you ever see a frog eat a bird? It was awful, her mouth was so full
and the wings were sticking out from the sides of her mouth!
Here’s her pic after she ate the bird, she was so stuffed that I just picked her up
for a selfie :smile:
I hated to get rid of her because she was so tame, but she
just sat in wait for a tasty meal of a bird. Birds frequently come to the pond
for a drink of water, so I couldn’t allow the pond to be a bird trap. :sad:
Frog story to follow, stay tuned.
What’s giggling?
Well then, my frog Budweiser was an anomaly, she was visible all the time.
She was used to us and did not shy away from us,
and she was darn smart too...
Sadly, we had to take her to our fishing hole after I witnessed
her eating a bird. She got so big and fat that I could roll her around with a stick,
really!
Did you ever see a frog eat a bird? It was awful, her mouth was so full
and the wings were sticking out from the sides of her mouth!
Here’s her pic after she ate the bird, she was so stuffed that I just picked her up
for a selfie :smile:
I hated to get rid of her because she was so tame, but she
just sat in wait for a tasty meal of a bird. Birds frequently come to the pond
for a drink of water, so I couldn’t allow the pond to be a bird trap. :sad:
Frog story to follow, stay tuned.
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It's gigging. Basically spearing a frog using something like this - https://www.agrisupply.com/frog-gig...7yGsPDaqFtJlsWKd8k_3Xx_AvrBmbN9waAtqSEALw_wcB
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No just empathetic. :smile:
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Most of those gigs are too thick, you need slim tongs. The large tongs will just shove the frog back into the mud, where the smaller thin tonged gigs will penetrate.
I guess it does sound cruel but all animals that we eat have to die. Kinda weird, I didn't mind gigging frogs or fishing but just couldn't bring myself to kill a deer or a chicken, rabbit or most anything else.
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