Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 9:24 am Post subject:
If you are not worried about not having the bones left over to make cormorant stock, then you could just skin the bird and cut off the joints. Much faster and no contact with fishy cormorant guts at all!
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:41 am Post subject:
Chicken? (Only fishier)
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:49 am Post subject:
nettie wrote:
Have you tried cormorant, Judith? What's it like?
No, I've never tried it. I imagine it might need slow cooking with all that swimming it does.
I'm just trying to make the dressing part sound less intimidating so you will try it. Then you can come back and tell us all about it
I have to confess(or maybe i shouldn't) to eating seagull when I was young, that was ok tasted a bit like.... no not what your thinking seagull fishy but good. It was slow cooked and was fine, stew I think
dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 7184 Location: South Kent
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:51 pm Post subject:
I know cormarants have a great appetite for fish - but I rather liked the ones I've met. They're quite bright. Did anyone else see/remember a tv documentary of a couple of years ago on Chinese trained cormorants fishing and retrieving to a boat?
If I ever go to the Faroe Islands, it wouldn't be to eat puffin.
But seagulls are another matter entirely. The eggs are supposedly a 'foodie' treat - anyone tried them? Any suggestions re 'candleling'-type selection? Any health problems from urban gulls eggs - salmonella?
Sorry eating shite hawks (sorry seagulls) is a last resort. I've eaten them in the army, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. They scavenge on tips and rotting remains.
I've even seen them scooping up human excrement from untreated sewer outfalls. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
My dad's neighbour has a license to cull cormorants from his fishing lake, he just leaves the carcasses there for the fox! Has anyone tried them? It seems such a waste.
to eating seagull when I was young, that was ok tasted a bit like.... no not what your thinking 
seagull fishy but good. It was slow cooked and was fine, stew I think 
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