Podcast: Episode 314, Opportunistic Omnivores Eat Invasives
Join Justin as he chats with Scott Leysath, The Sporting Chef, all about eating invasive species. They discuss catching, cooking, and consuming lionfish, iguanas, hogs, pythons, nutria, carp, snake head, and so much more!
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Special Guest:
Scott Leysath – The Sporting Chef
Scott is the author of two cookbooks and he has been featured in numerous publications for his cooking and adventures. He is the host of The Sporting Chef and DEAD MEAT shows on Sportsman Channel.
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Recipes:
Show Notes:
Eating Possum
The L.L. Bean of Wild Game cooking
Scott’s unusual career path to becoming the Sporting Chef
catering for Ducks Unlimited
The best Wild Game Scott has eaten
Coyote Burgers
Eating Bear Liver – DON’T DO IT!
Mentally preparing for strange meals
Eating a machito
tasting so others don’t have to
Lion fish pizza
attracting Lion fish
Iguana Cook book
Shooting iguanas and filling up trucks
avoid the salmonella
Eating barracuda – it’s not taboo
coconut mango iguana taco
sugar cane feral hogs
treating and cooking wild game correctly
eat wild game – Be happy
eliminating preconceived notions about wild game
turkey tastes
Wild hog preparations – what to do
sows vs. boars
boars – chili verde and chile Colorado
cook thoroughly to avoid trichinosis
hunting feral hogs at night on golf carts on golf courses
Feeding people with feral hogs
finding, cleaning, and eating turtle
catching, killing, cooking Snakehead
Nutria
python in the Everglades
Python meat – is it good?
asian carp – bow fishing on the illinois river, it’s not easy
grinding asian carp to make fish cakes
mudfish, softest fish ever, like fish pudding
bonefish fish cakes
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shoot, catch, and kill any and all invasive species
share your meals with first responders