Have your opossum fat clean well and soak in cold in cold salted water for 24 hours.Drain and wipe dry.Peel sweet potatoes,if large,quarter them.Place in bottom of a large roaster.Lay the opossum on top of potatoes.Pour boiling water over until potatoes are covered.Bake in 325 degree oven 2 hrs. or longer if necessary.Opossum should be a rich brown.Lay potatoes on a large platter.Carve opossum and lay over top of potatoes.Pour gravy from roaster over all;gravy will not need thickening.

For a Savory Mock Opossum use a good roast of pork or beef with the sweet potatoes.It's almost as good as the Opossum and probably a bit easier to get.ENJOY

how bout a savory mock opossum, at least until all the freakin cows, pigs, deer, moose, elk, bison, chicken, fish, etc...are gone.

mmmm. mmmm. Granny Clampett ain't got nothing on you flounder!

Hey, my Grandfather use to Cook Coons like that. He would live trap them in his garden during the summer. Fatten them up in a reinforced chickencoop. Then when it got cold weather. Into the Pot. Wasnt bad, actually tasted along the lines of roast pork.

mmmm. mmmmm. opossum, coon, & armadillo's thats some mighty fine eatin right thar.

My old gramps would hunt possum at nite with his favorite dog. He loved to eat them.

I just had to click on this post.

I look good on a bed of sweet taters.

This is either a joke or you are starving. I will throw in a 20 for you to go sit and have a decent meal somewhere.

Prayers sent

I have ate some possum, wasnt my favorite, real stringy and greasey? but if your real hungry?????

how about some rabies with your rat!

you should trust your instincts.

Possom is too greasy.
Armadillo taste like gamey hog. (when barbequed)
Never had coon.
Like fried rabbit but haven't had any since I was a kid.
Squirrels are good but takes to many to make a meal.

Would dearly love to have some elk, buffalo, or even some venison.

Used to live in Seattle. My baby setters brother was a hunter. He would take his 4 wheel drive towing a WWII surplus jeep up into the mountains as far as he could go then take the jeep to get further away from civilization. He might hunt for a month or so in the winter. My family visited the family in 1962. Talk about a feast. Platters stacked high with venison, elk, bear. Even more with duck and goose. Home grown veggies. God it was a meal to remember.

last possum i saw was turning circles at the dear lease for about 2 hrs until the TP+W showed-up to have him lobotomized......i'll pass

The dogs right?

GP - the way we ar going with 4-H we may have about 20 good eatin rabbits soon. Farm raised on nothin but feed

Free range only

Could have really helped you out this spring--trapped 5 possums, 2 coons that were demolishing my tomatos, plants and all. No one locally had culinary interest, so sent them all to "possum/ coon hereafter.

Clock-wise or counter clock-wise??
LMAO!

After one experience as a kid, I wouldn't eat 'possum unless I was starvin' to death, and even then I'd have to be fed it without my knowledge.

My aunt and uncle owned a dairy farm over in SE Louisiana. Every once in a while a cow would die for what ever reason and my uncle would hook it to the tractor and haul it off into the woods behind the house to let mother nature take care of it's disposal.
One warm fall day my cousin and I were back behind the house hunting squirrels and happened upon a recently disposed of bovine. We both happened to notice that the cow's bloated stomach was MOVING! My cousin tells me to go kick the cow in the stomach, to which I reply "HE!! NO!, Why don't you go kick it?". After much daring and double daring, my cousin decides to go do the deed. What happened next caused two 13 year olds to puke almost all the way back to the house. Right after kicking the cow, the fattest, nastiest, carp covered, 'possum comes crawlin' out of this cow's rear end. Yeah, you got that right! He had eatin' his way into this cow through the southbound end!

So I ain't ever going to eat a 'possum, cuz after all, you have no clue where it's been!

That rates in the top 10 of the most foulest, repulsive things I have every read!! Cant the the visual image out of my head.

Pasta and Sweet Potatoes

Cut the potatoes into cubes, drizzle with olive oil and salt. Bake until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Toss it with whole wheat penne pasta and add any herbs you want. Good for you and tasty!

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Haven't tried it and never will. That just knots up my stomach just thinking about!

LOL!

nope. not gonna happen

Hey, you just never been hungry enough. I have ate possum, 'coon, and even Skunk. None of them were really bad tasting, and have ate them since the first time.
I can remember as a Kid back in the '50s, times hard enough that ANY meat tasted good.