Rocky Mountain Oysters

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Recipe - Rocky Mountain Oysters

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2 pounds fresh testicles

1 cup floor
1/4 cup cornmeal
1 cup red wine
salt
black pepper
garlic powder
Louisiana Hot Sauce
cooking oil

With a very sharp knife, split the tough skin-like muscle that surrounds each "oyster". Remove the skin. Set the "oysters" into a pan with enough salt water to cover them for one hour (this takes out some of the blood). Drain. Transfer "oysters" to large pot. Add enough water to float "oysters" and a generous tablespoon of vinegar. Parboil, drain, and rinse. Let cool and slice each "oyster" into 1/4" thick ovals. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of sliced "oyster" to taste.
Mix flour, cornmeal and some garlic powder to taste in a bowl. Roll each "oyster" slice into this dry mixture. Dip into milk. Dip into dry mixture. Dip into wine quickly (you may repeat the procedure if a thicker crust is desired). Place each "oyster" into hot cooking oil.
Add hot sauce to cooking oil (to taste). Cook until golden brown or tender, and remove with a slotted spoon or wire strainer. (careful the longer they cook, the tougher they will become)
Drain on paper towels and serve.

[Locomo]

Not!.

[Matt_Potter]

Hey guys serious business out this way - this happens about 20 minutes from my house.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mt-testiclefestival.html

It is a zoo - do a google image search for "Rock Creek Testicle Festival" - picture woodstock for bikers and drunk collage kids. :cheers:

Went a bunch during my collage years such behavior came to a stop once I got married.

On a culinary note - they don't taste at all bad - especially after your 10th or 12th beer. A couple of shots of tokillyou doesn't hurt either.

If you are going to eat innards at least balls aren't filtering anything bad - most people I know in the heath care field won't have anything to do with liver or kidneys.

Matt

[falconpro]

I just don't know if I'd be interested in going to a testicle festival. How many oysters are consumed at one of these things over a week end? where do they get all those oysters? Especially I would not feel comfortable getting drunk there, what if ya pass out?? Are the family jewels safe? To many questions, no thank you...

[Matt_Potter]

I just don't know if I'd be interested in going to a testicle festival. How many oysters are consumed at one of these things over a week end? where do they get all those oysters? Especially I would not feel comfortable getting drunk there, what if ya pass out?? Are the family jewels safe? To many questions, no thank you...

"the festival feeds over 2 ½ tons of bull balls to its many hungry revelers"

When I was going it was a question of when and where you passed out not if you passed out

Matt

[Åshild]

All of a sudden liver doesn't sound to bad at all :)

[DanaC]

Frank don't make enough hot sauce...

[wds]

They are not bad if you just walk in and try them. If you have to tail a few 200 pound bores ,hold them down in the pen while the job is being done then go in and have some. Well then you got to man up a little. Been there done that. Told the owner of the hogs if he let them get that big before he cut them next time he would be doing it alone. Big talk for someone after is first daughter. Looking back i would have been better off if they had cut me. Oh to be young again.

[Bowbender Mike]

You guys are nuts;)

[Hank D Thoreau]

Aiden,

Tell me that you did not harvest those balls from some of your farm patients !!!!!

[Larry Hatfield]

we use calf testicles we keep aside when we work caqlves in the spring. as we go from ranch to ranch thats whats for lunch. there are three of us that share work and there are about 1200 pairs to choose from in a typical year. i like them better than from slaughter bulls, they are a little large.

[falconpro]

WDS, now that there's funny!! In a sad kind of way..

[phxarcher87]

I tried them one time and got kicked in the face.....

[4nolz]

I've eaten a bushel basket full in my lifetime.Now....mullet roe? yellow(eggs) or white (sperm/milt)-HELLL NO! You have to draw the line somewhere.:)

[Brad B]

You guys are nuts;)

That right there ^ is funny.

[mqqse]

Pass the deer tongue, please...

[Larry Hatfield]

it's kind of neat how environment and situations shape our likes and dislikes in regard to people, politics, religion, and even food.
the way i grew up, food was anything you could find and eat without getting sick. i am grateful for experiencing that because the ability to adapt to different foods and food opportunity kept me alive and healthy at different times in my life.
since i sort of "grew up" in thailand and laos in the mid fifties i am a fan of food that most people have not and would not think of eating.
when they kill a water buffalo in that area for meat it is common to cut the first stomach open and remove the grasses and herbs the buff recently ate and pound them along with internal organs, chili, fish sauce and added herbs and eating the paste from that process with sticky rice balls used to pick up portions of the salty and spicy larb. it really is a great!

[Matt_Potter]

Larry

It is all relative - I was raised to eat what ever was placed in front of me no quesitons asked - a skill that has served me well while traveling.

When I was still guiding I had a very good customer from Thailand who after years of telling me how great durian fruit was brought me one - I COULD NOT eat it - his response with a sly grin was "yes but, you eat blue cheese and raw Oysters"

It is all about what you have been raised to think as acceptable.

Matt

[Larry Hatfield]

wow, matt, i love durian. last summer we were coming back to the city from kom pot and stopped at a fruit sellers stand. she had fresh durian just in from thailand and the 6 of us ate 5 of them, all the while telling her that they were just not quite right so we needed to taste another one. the joke ended up on us as we bought several to take back to phnom phen along with bags of rambutan, longan, and other fruit and when we got there found she had deducted the ones we ate from our order.

[Matt_Potter]

Just couldn't get past the smell - pretty sure the guy opened it in the car on purpose - you got to admit if your first exposure to one was in a closed car they might be a touch hard to get down. I thought he was messing with me at first - until he slurped the whole thing down in about 2 seconds.

That and Yup'ik stinky meat is about the only stuff I won't touch.

Matt

[Larry Hatfield]

i knew a girl named ebba pniptchuck up in shaktoolik years ago. she wanted me to come visit her parents and marry her. she said if i came i would get to eat the oldest meat and promised small shorebirds that were marinated in a seals belly for a "long time". she said the melted blubber made the feathers and beaks so soft you could just eat the whole bird.
as good as that sounded i went to s.e. asia instead. she was happily married when i came back.