This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
Have you ever eat a turtle
We have a pretty large pond in front of our house that is stocked with large mouth bass and bluegill fish. We both love to fish and don’t fish from the pond a lot because we’re trying to let the pond stock itself and get the fish to a good frying size.
We’re constantly fighting off predators of the fish such as fish hawks, cranes and something my husband calls a “shikepoke” (6-8 inch tall black bird with webbed feet and long beak). We also have to deal with huge mud turtles that come of the small stream that goes around the pond and down through the property. Turtles can eat up the fish pretty quick so we catch them and eat them. Small ones are caught and released in larger creeks around the county.
Caught him in the pond in front of our home.They’re mean and eat our fish every year.
He was eating our bass so now we’re going to eat him.
The meat is beautiful and really good. We’re told there are seven different types of meat in a turtle including chicken, beef, pork, fish, and I’m not sure what the other meats are but we like it all.
Fresh turtle meat! We fry it like chicken. White meat, dark meat, really good.
When I cook it I first soak it in salt water overnight and then pressure cook it for about 30 -45 minutes at 10 pounds of pressure. I then check to make sure it’s tender and if it is, I roll it in seasoned flour and fry it in butter. It tastes just like fried chicken.
I also freeze it and when I do I place about five or six pieces in a Ziploc freezer bag, fill bag half full of water, press out the excess air and freeze. I know it’ll keep at least 12 months frozen like this but we never have any last that long. We also put the same amount in our food saver bags and vacuum seal and it keeps well like this too.
We try to always process and can or freeze everything we kill EXCEPT for coons and possums!! NO THANK YOU!
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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3 thoughts on “Have you ever eat a turtle”
That is a huge turtle!!!! Never tried one but your recipe sounds great!
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
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That is a huge turtle!!!! Never tried one but your recipe sounds great!
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LOL — no turtle, thanks! I get my meat from the grocery store, like God intended 😉 Just kidding, of course, but I’ll stick to chicken!
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If you didn’t know what you were eating you would love it!! I won’t do that to you though!!
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