Crock pot ideas/Recipie

[Kitsune06]

We grew up with urban cooking 101...sauteed cockroach in stale beer and stewed rat in Boone's Farm Apple wine reduction. (Roach needs to be cooked a long time to bring out the subtle bouquet of Raid.)

Remind me not to eat there!!!

To each her own. I think it's funny how painfully urbane folks will do the organic thing, 'whole foods' and try to seek out hasenfeffer and venison to recall memories of their 'simpler' roots.
How quaint.
You do what you have to. Cattail roots are starchy and not-so-bad in soups etc... just need the right processing, etc. Hard to starve when you live on the lake.
Snappers are generally best b/c of the size but they're dangerous. Soft-shelled, when you can get them, or regular mud turtles are okay, but not enough meat to do much with.
I grew up on the river, born with a cane pole in one hand and net in t' other.
Dad competed in the Buckskinners' Blackpowder Riflery competition (with BP Hawken .50 and handmade buckskin clothes) and we all had fun at the rendezvous on the river every summer. (Think a trapper/trader v. of a ren faire) A nod to a by-gone era, yes, but it gives you an idea of what life was, and how silly and shallow today's best attempts at recreations can be.