Mrs. Alfred Packer's goat gotten

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

Mrs. Alfred Packer's been away from Skins's island a lot the past few months, because hippyhubby Wild Bill thinks she should be paying more attention to him, and less attention to the primitives on Skins's island.

However, it appears that Wild Bill, along with his brother (the one with both eyes on the same side of his nose) and his other brother (the one with a watermelon-sized goiter), were busy today, building a moonshine still up in the hills of northeastern Oklahoma, and so Mrs. Alfred Packer took advantage of his absence, to report to the primitives.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-31-10 03:21 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Original message

African Goat Stew

This is what I'm making for dinner tonight, on a smaller scale, tho. The recipe isn't well written but I think I can put it together okay.

http://www.foodreference.com/html/burgoor1.html

The "African" must have inspired Mrs. Alfred Packer to show she's no racist.

Of course, we all know Mrs. Alfred Packer is a notorious sinophobe; doesn't like yellow people and their products.

Anyway.

Callalily  (1000+ posts)      Sun Oct-31-10 04:22 PM
Response to Original message
 
4. This looks like a great recipe to make, although I don't know where I'd get the goat in my area. Obviously, substitutions are allowed but I suspect one would miss the true "soul" of the food.

Please let us know your results.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-31-10 05:04 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #4

5. I get mine through our coop.

There are about four producers who raise goat.

Not sure where in WI you are but I checked www.localharvest.org and there seems to be lots of goat available up there all over.

http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?st=53&ty=-1&nm=g...

I was a little unprepared and the recipe so poorly written. I didn't have any beef stock (thought I did but forgot I used it a couple of weeks ago) and the only thing I had to replace it was some white wine. I through in a cup of that. The recipe says tomato puree (in the instructions, it's missing on the ingredient list) but I had paste so used a small can of paste and about 3/4 cup of water to make up the liquid.

Instead of 1/8 t. of ginger and 1/8 t. of cloves, I used 1/4 t. each. I also didn't finely dice the meat. It's stew meat and I just left it as is. I just really figured since the recipe is so incomplete, I could do what I wanted within limits.

It's simmering away and smelling pretty good.

Edited to add: I had half of a medium red pepper left over from last night so I diced it small and threw it in there, too.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-31-10 06:25 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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8. It's finished...and it's delicious! If I hadn't made a stirfry last night, I would make some rice and serve it over that, but we are going to eat it as a stew with a green salad on the side.

[Chris_]

I wonder what part of the recipe is African?  Can I use a regular goat? 

[franksolich]

I wonder what part of the recipe is African?  Can I use a regular goat? 

I dunno.

I suspect Mrs. Alfred Packer chose the recipe because it has the word "African" in it, and she wants to show she's not a racist (at least insofar as black people are concerned; yellow people, that's something different).

Something like that; it's obvious the name, rather than the food itself, triggered her.

[Chris_]

There's nothing in that list of ingredients that looks particularly 'African' unless it's the peanuts or cayenne pepper.  I wonder if I can substitute lamb, or would that be considered too European?  I can't really buy goat here unless I want to visit the farmer's market.  Damn those pesky white folks.

[delilahmused]

I wonder what part of the recipe is African?  Can I use a regular goat? 

Goat meat tastes like mild beef. Any recipe you can use beef in you can use goat meat. It tastes a lot like veal. The hard part is that Boer goats are VERY sweet, friendly, and trusting. Chickens and turkeys I can do but not goats. My sister raises a couple each year. I prefer milk and fiber. Goats milk and organic eggs are quite lucrative around here. Liberals will pay a lot for "organic" everything.

Cindie

[BattleHymn]

Goat meat tastes like mild beef. Any recipe you can use beef in you can use goat meat. It tastes a lot like veal. The hard part is that Boer goats are VERY sweet, friendly, and trusting. Chickens and turkeys I can do but not goats. My sister raises a couple each year. I prefer milk and fiber. Goats milk and organic eggs are quite lucrative around here. Liberals will pay a lot for "organic" everything.

Cindie

I wonder if I could make some of my $11 a month I spend on duck feed back, by selling organic DUCK eggs to the primitives? 

We used to raise goats.  All sorts of goats.  Alpine, Toggenburg, Nubian, Boer, and three or four other varieties.   My parents had two rules.  Rule number one was never make friends with the goats.  Rule number two was never name the goats.

My parents have long since gotten rid of all their goats, and my wife's cousin in Arkansas now raises Boer goats for shows.  Her sister's boyfriend, who is Greek, and me pretty much have to wear bibs to keep the drool from falling on our clothing when we visit her goat collection. 

 

[crockspot]

I wonder what part of the recipe is African?  Can I use a regular goat? 

Any skinny well hung goat will do. 

[BattleHymn]

Any skinny well hung goat will do. 

 

[delilahmused]

I wonder if I could make some of my $11 a month I spend on duck feed back, by selling organic DUCK eggs to the primitives? 

We used to raise goats.  All sorts of goats.  Alpine, Toggenburg, Nubian, Boer, and three or four other varieties.   My parents had two rules.  Rule number one was never make friends with the goats.  Rule number two was never name the goats.

My parents have long since gotten rid of all their goats, and my wife's cousin in Arkansas now raises Boer goats for shows.  Her sister's boyfriend, who is Greek, and me pretty much have to wear bibs to keep the drool from falling on our clothing when we visit her goat collection. 

 

My goats are companions and follow me all over the place when I let them out of their pen. Two are milk goats (Nubians) and the other three are pygmy goats. They're the epitome of the stubborn goat but I adore them. My husband really hates them though. My sister got them for me several years ago for my birthday so he pretty much knows he's stuck with it.

Cindie

[franksolich]

There's nothing in that list of ingredients that looks particularly 'African' unless it's the peanuts or cayenne pepper.  I wonder if I can substitute lamb, or would that be considered too European?  I can't really buy goat here unless I want to visit the farmer's market.  Damn those pesky white folks.

Face it. 

Mrs. Alfred Packer made "African" goat stew because because like all primitives, she thinks she's "sharing" an experience with her African brothers and sisters across the seas.

She imagines she's "bonding" with darker-colored people.

The recipe could list exactly the same ingredients, but label it "Albanian goat stew" or "Paraguayan goat stew" or--so help me--"Chinese goat stew", and Mrs. Alfred Packer wouldn't pay any attention to it.

Mrs. Alfred Packer can be rather silly at times.

One wonders what hippyhubby Wild Bill thinks of this "ethnic" cookery, but suspects that because Wild Bill and two of his brothers were out building a moonshine still, they perhaps showed up at the supper-table blotto, being too drunk to notice whether the chow had an "African" taste or a Majorcan taste to it.  Or an Annamese or Trinidadian taste. 

Goat stew is goat stew is goat stew.  Goat stew recognizes no race or creed.

[true_blood]

Very nice. Sounds appetizing, huh?!?
Now, my question is, did she use an "African" goat with or without AIDS?

[The Hollywood NeoCon]

Face it. 

Mrs. Alfred Packer made "African" goat stew because because like all primitives, she thinks she's "sharing" an experience with her African brothers and sisters across the seas.

She imagines she's "bonding" with darker-colored people.

That's precisely what I was thinking, chief, and the only reason this aging moonbat felt the need to make strategic use of the word, "African."

Not only can Mrs. Packer be silly, she can also be transparently pandering.

[Karin]

They're at their worst when they're doing that to middle eastern food.  They try to spell out phonetically the names of ingredients and dishes, and often fail. 

As for goat, never tried it, never will.  They sold it in CT grocery stores, but only because of our big illegal alien population. 

[IassaFTots]

I think they are just trying to be all pretentious and worldly and crap.  If I tell you I had Cabrito tacos, or African Goat Stew, that sounds, exotic.  If I tell you I had plain ole goat stew, someone would think I was a hillbilly, redneck, or just backwater. 

Never had goat, but if it tastes like veal, well, I need to try it.      

[miskie]

Callalily  (1000+ posts)      Sun Oct-31-10 04:22 PM
Response to Original message
 
4. This looks like a great recipe to make, although I don't know where I'd get the goat in my area. Obviously, substitutions are allowed but I suspect one would miss the true "soul" of the food.

Please let us know your results.

Mmmm.. Sweet, tasty goat soul.. 'Goat Soul - not just for demons anymore !'

[thundley4]

Mmmm.. Sweet, tasty goat soul.. 'Goat Soul - not just for demons anymore !'

I have a feeling the DUmmies would prefer "goatse" to goat soul.

[Randy]

So does it still count as the originally intended food if you change all the ingredients but the meat?