This is going to be a meat adventure.
On Friday, the buzzer rang. A Fed-Ex man tromped up four flights of stairs and handed me a large package. Inside, I found the following missive:
Alaskan Culinary Challenge January 2011
Beaver Bonanza!Welcome to your first Alaskan culinary challenge!
The object of this challenge is to research, prepare and serve…Much like Iron Chef, view this as the “secret ingredient.” Test your culinary skills and have fun!
Rules:
1. Shipped item must be consumed withing 2-3 days.
2. Prepared meal MUST be served to at least one person besides yourself.Using the ingredients in a historical fashion (four pounds flour worthy) is encouraged.
Documentation and feedback/report is favorable. Future culinary challenges are more likely if previous challenge was given proper attention.
Recipe sharing is also favorable.
Failure to complete this challenge will result in mockery of the highest caliber.
Love,
Your partners in crime in the 49th.
Inside the box, five neatly wrapped portions of meat, all labeled “Beaver.”
Stay tuned.
Sarah, I’ll check my files for beaver recipes. It would be hard for me to eat.. they are so adorable. Good luck… I know it will be delicious!
it was! recipes to come…
Shame they didn’t send you the hat as well. But I guess Davy Crockett chick is not what it used to be…
It’s because they already sent me a Crockett-style cap made from a skunk.
CHIC. Davy Crockett CHIC. It has been a long week already.
My husband goes to a University Anthropology Department cook-out every year, where one item on the menu is always “mystery meat”. The students then have to submit written guesses about what they are eating. They’ve had some pretty unusual things, but I don’t think they’ve ever had beaver. If your recipes turn out good, I’ll have to suggest it. Where does one acquire beaver meat?
Game meats by Crizmer! http://www.czimers.com/ And it turned out very well!