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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Cactus Jack on October 24, 2013, 07:29:52 am
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In October here in deepest Catalunya we get the local hunters all over our mountains.
They have to be licensed by our village to hunt in the area and the shooting club give out the boundaries and which farms have livestock.
Last week four men from our village came up through my farm (donkeys, pigs, goats and poultry) with their dogs, wished me good day and carried on up the mountain.
About two hours later I heard two rifle shots and then they all came down again with a huge male wild boar.
On going into my local bar night before last I was presented with 14 kilos of wild boar meat for letting them go through my land.
How nice.
There are some English over here who do nothing but complain about the hunters, but of course they are the ones who don't know any of the locals and make no effort to mix in.
14 kilos of meat will feed me for quite a while. :pig:
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What a lovely gesture by the hunters. Wish somebody around here would take out a few pheasants that eat our veg, then give me the pleasure of pheasant supper ;D
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What a nice gesture. We have the hunters here but not sure dead fox sounds so appealing ;D
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There are some English over here who do nothing but complain....... I think its in the genes :roflanim:
Sound absolutely brilliant. Wild boar yum... and fresh and natural too. If the house sells here I shall be homing in my search for somewhere and out down by you is sounding better and better :thumbsup:
What are the winters like. I presume you are in the mountains? Do you ever get snowed in?
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There are some English over here who do nothing but complain....... I think its in the genes :roflanim:
Sound absolutely brilliant. Wild boar yum... and fresh and natural too. If the house sells here I shall be homing in my search for somewhere and out down by you is sounding better and better :thumbsup:
What are the winters like. I presume you are in the mountains? Do you ever get snowed in?
I am in the mountains and we haven't been snowed in last 8 years I've been here. Sometimes get a very mild frost but by lunch time it's tee shirt weather in the sun. On the mountains on the other side of the river Ebro at the bottom of our mountain it often snows above 1000 metres.
It also rains more over there :raining:
The weather problem here is the mistral wind in February. It usually exceeds 100mph at least once a year, but that's the only drawback of mountain life.
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I have just a very large joint of the wild boar including two foot long ribs.. Butchers over here do not understand roasting joints.
As tender and moist as could ever be.
Eaten with roast potato (dug up 3 days ago)
With carrots ( pulled one hour before eating )
And spinach picked 4 minutes before serving..
No gravy required as spinach cooked in my garlic butter (made this afternoon)
Whole grain mustard freshly mixed
And unfortunately ran out of wine (visitors last night wiped me out) so a couple of very large g&ts
It was so good I am going to have to charge myself for meals like this
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The Sunday before last our local hunt gave me a quarter of wild boar too. I gather that the hunt have been told by our village ekder that we are "peasants of the commune". I would not cross her so what she says goes and now we get roe deer and wild boar.
Yet to eat the wild boar but the roe deer marinated in olive oil and mustard then roasted was the best roasted meat ever. We are saving the boar for when we have more people to sit at the table to enjoy it.
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Stop it you lucky lot :sunshine: Mind you it was a lovely bright clear autumn day here today so shouldnt complain that much ;)
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My mouth is watering, Cactus Jack, and it's all your fault. ;)
I need someone round here to shoot pigeons and they don't even have to give me any. ;D
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When I still had an allotment we used to get our local gamekeeper, his ferrets and his totally insane little brown terrier in a couple of times a year to clear out the rabbits on the plots. It was extremely interesting to watch the team in action and at the end the gamekeeper would trot off with a big basket of veg as well as his fee and we'd be left divvying up the rabbits. Nice little bonus for the freezer though not everyone wanted the bother of course. It was very good rabbit meat too, they had spent their lives lazing around on our plots with their next meal only a yard or two away so they were fat and tender.
Boar sounds better though. Yum!