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| Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:23 am)
I know some people never keep these fish and some people do.
I am curious to know if anyone has any great gar recipes that they've used or tried in the past?
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Tigertown in ATL
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sorry to not respond but
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AlmaDawg 
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A freind of mine takes the backstrap meat and grills it with butter and lemon. Pretty good stuff! They are a pain to clean, so I have never kept one.
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:30 am to AlmaDawg)
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Pretty good stuff!
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Alma
Folks take this with a grain of salt.
 
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Count Chocula
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:31 am to AlmaDawg)
Gar Balls.
Put the meat in a grinder. Season and make a ball with the minced meat. Drop in egg wash and then in fish fry or whatever. Deep fry. Looks like a boudon ball when done.
I dont eat that shit, but thats how they do it.
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CITWTT
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A waste of time and trouble to attempt.
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AlmaDawg
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You should try it! There are better fish swimming around, but it was supringly good. I never would have thought it though.
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tenfoe
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Cut it across the grain in silver dollar sized pieces and fry. When it's fresh you can't beat it.
Also, you can cut out a roast with the backbone in. A football-sized roast (approx) is what I do. Brown it in a black pot and make a gravy. Stew it down til it's about falling off the bone.
Dammit, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!
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we used to just cut it up and fry it. sort of like gator meat.
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 10:10 am to Count Chocula)
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Gar Balls.
Put the meat in a grinder. Season and make a ball with the minced meat. Drop in egg wash and then in fish fry or whatever. Deep fry. Looks like a boudon ball when done.
Add bread crumbs, chopped onions & eggs to miced meat to make balls.
Then cook balls in a red gravy.
Have not had the desire to do one since I was a teenager
Best advice...have a machete and hacksaw to clean that SOB
I'd rather clean a turtle
Good luck
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 10:13 am to Kajungee)
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Best advice...have a machete and hacksaw to clean that SOB
Sawzall is what my buddy uses to get the backstrap meat. Too much work even with power tools to me though
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tenfoe
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 10:27 am to AlmaDawg)
With a hammer, one nail, a sharp machete, and a small paring knife, I can take a 75 lb gar apart in 5 minutes.
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:32 am to Count Chocula)
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Put the meat in a grinder. Season and make a ball with the minced meat. Drop in egg wash and then in fish fry or whatever. Deep fry. Looks like a boudon ball when done.
This.
But you left out the last step:
"Give the gar balls to the dog."
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CITWTT
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:35 am to Kajungee)
We used to use a hatchet for the chore. A fish that needs to be cleaned with such an instrument is not worth worrying about if you throw it back.
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Count Chocula
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:41 am to Zach)
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But you left out the last step:
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"Give the gar balls to the dog."
Pretty much said that when I closed the post with "but I aint eating that shit"!
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CITWTT
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:52 am to Count Chocula)
So you don't like the wifes dog because he/she is named Fluffy, and your wife makes all of these bizarre guttaral noises when she calls the damned thing?
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:52 am to Count Chocula)
I've never had the opportunity to eat it, but I'd give it a try. I might even be willing to try nutria if someone else cooked it and it smelled okay. And I didn't see the rat tail.
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Count Chocula
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:52 am to CITWTT)
I think you meant that for Zach, no?
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Count Chocula
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:53 am to Darla Hood)
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willing to try nutria
I'll save you the trouble. Don't.
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| re: Gar recipes? (Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:57 am to Count Chocula)
Scratches it off the list.
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