Alaskan Roadkill Recipes

It’s getting colder here in Alaska and once again its time for more great food as our freezers are stocked now from another season of hunting and fishing. There is also much talk about Sarah Palin since she was asked to be John McCain’s running mate. She is an outdoor’s woman who hunts and fishes with the best of them and like many Alaskans has done her share of preparing game meat for her family.

And speaking of PETA I have been getting some crazy feedback from my new recipe book I have been working on.

It is a kind of recipe book on “Road Kill” from Alaska and many Nations and other such nonsense.

Now before the PETA folks all get in an uproar there are varying organizations of PETA.

There is the Primary Education Teacher’s Association

And the

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

But the one I like best,

People Eat Tasty Animals

My section of Alaskan Fare in my area includes:

Moose and Squirrel Meat Balls

Or as it’s called here in The Last Frontier:

The Bullwinkle Feast

Moose and Squirrel Meat Balls
(Especially useful recipe if main ingredients have been dead for 24 or more hours before harvested)

Three pounds, ground moose and squirrel, any proportion; six slices soft white bread; one-half cup water; one-third cup butter; one-and-one-third cups chopped onion; salt and freshly ground black pepper; two tablespoons chopped parsley; two tablespoons flour; one-and-one-half cups milk.

Soak bread in water five minutes. Squeeze excess water out. Melt four tablespoons butter in skillet. Sauté onion in butter until tender. Combine moose and squirrel meat, squeezed bread, four teaspoons salt, one-half teaspoon pepper and parsley. Form mixture into one-inch balls. Chill twenty minutes. Heat remaining butter in skillet. Brown moose-and-squirrel balls on all sides. Cover skillet and cook slowly 15 minutes. Remove balls to warm platter. Sprinkle flour over skillet droppings. Stir and cook one minute. Stir in milk and bring to boil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Return moose-and-squirrel balls to skillet. Simmer four minutes.

Serves eight or 4 hungry Alaskans

Alaska Squirrel Roadkill Brunswick Stew

Okay, you've got quick reflexes and have just hit a squirrel. Take that sucker and skin it, cut the head off and remove the internal organs. Cut squirrel into pieces and add to chopped pork of equal amounts and sauté it slowly until light brown in 1/4 cup shortening. Then remove from the pan. Use the squirrel and pork fat to brown 1/2 cup of chopped onions. Put the squirrel, pork and onions in a stewing pot and add 2 cups of quartered red tomatoes. Add 2 cups of lima beans, 1 cup of hot water. Cayenne pepper to taste.

Simmer till squirrel and pork is just about tender and then add 3 cups of corn. Finish it off with 2 spoons of Worcestershire sauce and a cup of toasted bread crumbs. For the more adventurous, add sliced Almonds.

Serves Four

The Alaska Range Road Kill Chili Recipe
Tailgating Fixin’s for that Cold Winter Day:

2 Pounds Highway Hamburger (Fresh Caribou Road kill)
One 15oz can tomato sauce
One 14oz can petite diced tomatoes
Two Table spoons of “Mad Jack’s Alaskan Road Kill Chili Spice Mix"

DIRECTIONS:

Brown Highway Hamburger in medium pot. Drain grease & any gravel. Add one can 15ounce tomato paste and stir into meat. Add one can 14oz petite diced tomatoes and stir slowly. Add two tablespoons "Mad Jack’s Alaskan Chili Spice Mix", stir wildly for one minute. Simmer for thirty minutes.

After 30 minutes, taste chili. You should have a hearty beefy smoky flavor with about a 3 alarm bite. After tasting decide if you need beans or other ingredients. We now use this recipe for our basic competition chili AND we add beans to this recipe for our Give-Away chili at Cook offs.

One drawback to this recipe after eating . . . Icewind’s Revenge. Use Caution.

COMING in June from the Lower 48

Possum...the Other White Meat, Chili Verde

And one last one for your consideration,

Aunt Doris’s Road Kill "Flatter-Than" Pancakes Recipe

Warms your heart on a winter’s morning.

Complete Buttermilk Pancake/Waffle Mix - just add water
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 bottle water, 16 ounces

1 lb of Reindeer Sausage
Raspberry Syrup
Butter
Butter Flavored Cooking Spray

Kitchen Utensils
Plastic Jar with lid
2 burner propane stove
10" skillet
spatula
small Vice Grips (red-neck handle or see below)
Road Kill Griddle

Directions

Set up Propane Stove on Tailgate or table top. Preheat burners to 350 degrees. Place R.K. Griddle with Vice Grips as handle on right hand burner.

( NOTE; using small Vice Grips, make sure that Vice Grips handle does NOT cause R.K. Griddle to tip, Test Prior to use, OR Make your own Darn Handle, See Below)

Place 10" skillet on left hand burner. Spray Skillet and Griddle with Butter Flavored Cooking Spray. Cook Reindeer Sausage before starting hot cakes.

While preheating, mix Pancake/Waffle mix with water in plastic Jar per package instructions and Shake. Add chopped Walnuts to Mixture and shake some more. Pour Pancake mix onto R.K. Griddle, once mixture starts to bubble, flip Pancake onto skillet to complete second side. Use spatula to remove Pancake from Skillet. Repeat process until Pancake mixture in Bowl is used up. Serve with Butter and Raspberry Syrup.

Instructions for Making a Road Kill Griddle HANDLE!

We have provided an additional picture of our Jerry Rigged Road kill Griddle Handle. If you're a handyman you should be able to follow the above easy diagram. Note that the long leg goes "Under" the griddle for support. Keep in mind also, that if you want to "Insulate" your handle from the heat you can always try that Alaska Duct Tape, your choice of color.

As you can see with a little imagination and creativity . . . There are many

opportunities to enjoy the best of the world’s roadkill.

Either way, I’m sure you will enjoy great feasts with that down home flavor.

People Eat Tasty Animals!

And remember, at least it’s not Soylent Green.

Ice