Tim and Nicki are back from Florida with some gator meat. Learn about gators in Florida, how to hunt them and what meat can be used from Tim’s hunting guide. Perfect for some easy and filling fritters with some homemade remoulade sauce on the side. Looking for a meatless snack? Whip up a light beer batter for some fried cauliflower rolled in homemade buffalo sauce, and learn the history of how buffalo wings were invented. Need some ranch to dip them in? Make some from scratch. And Tim busts a myth about the expense of Lobster meat and how to cook it.
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They say you are what you eat so I don’t eat chicken feet butter love me some of Grandma’s pickle beads well cut it up put it in the pan throw it over your shoulder and see where it lands right here in kitchen MERS ters beans and corn the
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Before smash it with a wooden Mallet going to educate your pallet right here inarm kitchen and Farmers [Applause] kitchen we going to cook something good nice now hello and welcome to the farmers kitchen we’re the farmers this is our kitchen this is not a set like
Many cooking shows if you see a speck of flow it’s a speck of flow did it yeah I did it it’s a working kitchen you know we had a fun little trip we decided that we couldn’t sit within our four walls anymore and we need to take a little
Trip now I grew up in a very rural area in Kentucky I mean very very rural my mother and father made a choice to take his kids out and grow up in the country and where we grew up the house where it sets right now we could not see another
House from there and my entertainment was to go to the woods and to the water and so I hunted and I fished I watched dad as a kid bring in buckets of bluegill and he would take them and he would filet them and I couldn’t believe that something as fun as fishing could
Produce a meal do you remember you grew up similarly do you remember when your dad would bring in the pike fish it was dinner and the bass yes so we grew up in a culture where we brought in food to the table once I realized that you could
Take a deer a big you know 10 and some pound animal sometimes 200 lb and have all that meat it was just fascinating and the turkey’s wonderful so that has been a culture that we have both been immersed in our whole lives when we go fishing we take a cooler right we bring
Back as much as we can we freeze it and we have that for dinner so when we travel and we take vacations sometimes it involves bringing back meat that we will have for the show now we might bring something back that is absolutely foreign to your taste and if that’s the
Case we will always give you a substitute we had temperatures here get down in the like minus 4 right it’s not good not good don’t like it so we went South and when we went South you got us a place to stay I started looking around
Areas things that we could do and I found a place where we could Gator hunt that’s right not foreign to us folks US country folks that’s what we do but something we’ve never done something we had never done it I’m bucket list so I started calling around and find some
Things I was catching a few fish down there and having fun so I found a guy named Grayson very nice wonderful outfit we’re cooking Gator tonight you one thing different though what a gator can eat you the fish and the deer don’t want to eat us that’s the only thing
Different about that you know I thought what wouldn’t it be lovely if I got out there and he got a hold of this arm that’s right that’s why you get a guide right that’s why you get a guide so there’s no danger involved here you get
On this huge Swamp Buggy 15 ft in the air and you’re looking for Gators now you’re in the swamp so we’re looking out there and we’re seeing some wild boar and all kinds of different Critters Turtles and so on and so forth so we’re looking for a Target species that we
Could bring home and we finally found one and this Gator was pushing 9 foot now you can see in the distance here that’s some water where he was and he let himself be known by bringing his nose up so I had to wait until the opportunity arose to to make that shot
Great shot by by the way than very much and then Grayson had to go in and once once they’re taken they kind of sink to the bottom he had a big treble hook where he could bring it to us to the land right and then the whole process of
Taking this Gator this wonderful meat and when you talk about the gator well I’m going to let Grayson tell us what parts of the Gator you can eat and here’s Grayson right now with this beautiful Gator a living dinosaur right here in Florida 100% I have driven past
You a million times ago saltwater fish and this is finally kind of a dream come true it’s off my bucket list a lot of people might look at that and say oh my goodness you can’t the Kelling gators in Florida they’re in danger not too long
Ago that may have been the case but I trust your DNR to say we can do this absolutely yes sir yeah we have three different types of programs that you can Harvest alligators in the State of Florida uh one of them is a nuisance program that’s generally hey I’ve got an
Alligator in my pool they need to come getting um they have a public Lottery system with a public season and then we’re on private land they have a private land program as well but they estimate the population in Florida over a million wow and uh and seems to be
Continually growing they have done a great great job of what they do how they do with the alligator and uh alligator Management program has really really done a good job now this guy is I stepped him off he’s about 8 foot yes sir and we talked earlier to the best of
Our knowledge and other biologists you say it’s about about a foot a year um there’s a couple different reports and and a variety of biologists have a variety of different opin on on their age but generally what I’ve read and what I usually quote is under ideal
Circumstances a foot a year till they reach sexual maturity 6 to8 years old then it’s a half a foot a year till they reach their genetic predetermined length genetically they’re going to grow just like any other animal you I they’re only going to grow so long they don’t just
Grow forever and ever a lot of people think that but they don’t so this skaters you know at a minimum I would say uh 8 years old he could be 10 12 years old something like that now typically you think about tail meat and we’re going to make a wonderful recipe
Out of this because Gator is good absolutely and we talked about this extensively the other day I think it’s best fried just it’s just you can try anything in the world you want but it’s awful good fried and it’s good smoked we smoked one one a smaller one yep well
You know Gator it is a seafood um it’s in the seafood family it actually falls under regulation Seafood wise and um so you know there’s tail meat um then there’s leg meat that’s your red meat um there’s belly meat that’s also your red meat then you have a little bit of a
Back strap and then you have the jow meat on both sides and what we call the collar which actually goes that way on the alligator so right yep bulk of the meats in the tail lot of other meat that goes with it too well thank you so much
For hosting us and bringing us down here and letting me realize a bucket list I might not drive past you next time I’m going through well I hope you don’t thank you so much man yes Sir so tonight we’ve got the the deep fryer out we’ve got to skill it out so we’re going to try some fun stuff now here’s one thing if you see us using oil to fry in it will be olive oil every time now if you look and find some of
The bigger box stores you can find the large bottle sometimes you have to buy two if you know what I mean right and you can find it very reasonably but we don’t get up to temperatures up above 350 375 like you hear Bud we rarely get
Above 2 80 now what happens when you fry at those temperatures we can reuse it we can reuse it that’s right now and also you get the benefits and when you don’t get up to the smoke point and just ruin that oil that’s right you still get the
Benefits from the olive oil itself so tonight we’re going to make some treats some fun stuff and if you don’t like gator you can use a firm fleshed fish in this you could use a bass you could use bluegill but Gator’s fun but Gator’s fun and it’s delicious Gator is healthy no
Carbs no cholesterol and it has Omega-3s vitamins and minerals it’s just it’s just all around so you need to get a gator every year you’re saying every year probably every other week you’re going to need to get a gator okay we’re going to need a ranch dip later yes for
Something we’re making that I know you’re going to love so we’re going to make this ranch dip and it’s so simple you’re going to need 1 and 1/2 cups of sour cream 3/4 a cup of Mayo about a half a teaspoon of salt and pepper and we just ground some T Cherry pepper
There and because the T Cherry pepper is not hot but it really brings some flavor I’m going just going put a little bit more in there you see that’s a medium ground there we’re also going to come back with 3/4 of a teaspoon of parsley I’m going
To use about 3/4 of a teaspoon of dill weed anything anything that you can buy in the store you can make it home and trust me when it’s all fresh ingredients it tastes so much better then we’re going to use a half a teaspoon of dry fried minced onion that’s important and
Some garlic powder we’re going to go maybe A4 of a teaspoon there we want a dash of onion powder so another qu of a teaspoon of that then we’re going to take a half a teaspoon of basil and also we’re going to infuse this with some melted bacon grease yummy
Yummy just a little bit half a teaspoon just a few little chops those are stir in the rest are going to be put on the top later and there is what I call a beautiful wonderful yummy dip so now what we’re going to do we’re going to put a little
Plastic on that we’re going to put it in the refrigerator chill and then we’re going to come back and start frying some stuff up but in olive oil guilf free that’s right yum so recently we went to a restaurant and we’ve had this before but we had
Some fried cauliflower in a beer batter now if you don’t like cauliflower you can actually put chicken in here you can do the same thing we’re doing with the chicken it’s it’s a buffalo cauliflower that absolutely is delicious now when you fry and again it’s olive oil mhm it
Changes the consistency of the cauliflower and makes it more like a meat yeah it does so what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our cauliflower and uniformly cut them into a size that’s friendly for a bite and again if you don’t like cauliflower you could use
Chicken so can we make our own buffalo sauce I mean good buffalo sauce that tastes just like a buffalo sauce you get in the market well I’ll bet you we could do it one step better I started thinking about this and started doing some research and I thought okay where does
Buffalo sauce come from Buffalo sauce came from Buffalo New York there was a lady that a bar in Buffalo New York and and back in the day chicken wings were junk I mean they were really kind of a side deal and a lot of times they were
Thrown out so Teresa balisimo at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York decided what if she took some of those wings and made a spicy sauce that included butter it included a hot sauce of your choice and some Worchester Shire and a few more other things what if she could take her
Wings and deep fry them or bake them or whatever turn this thing that most people are wasting into something that she could serve at her bar she did it well guess what year it was I have 1964 really the year you were born very good year so Teresa said hey I’m going to
Take this and turn it into something she did Buffalo wings were born really so it’s cool to know where your food comes from so used to I would use two sticks of butter I think you can get b with less butter okay and so we’re going to
Use one stick of butter let’s go ahead and melt that while we’re melting our butter I got to get my phone out here because this was interesting the other day we put up a poll for our friends we said hey what what is a reasonable price
Per person for dining out now I really wondered what that thought process was cuz you know nobody likes to spend money and you know times are a little bit tough right now so per person Eric Hawks said 25 Steven says dive $10 to12 per person moderate 15 to 25 and classy 35
And up I think that’s a pretty good answer F dining $100 any other 25 no more than 12 to 15 $20 with senior discount I like that Connie cus says 35 low $50 High Kathy Willis says 20 low 40 high so this goes on and on so it really
Gave me an idea and I remember we did a segment years ago and we had a picture of a trip that we’d been on towards the coast and a lot of comments were oh it must be nice to be able to eat lobster and when we’re on the coast we look for
Discount seafood or someplace that has Seafood that is wholesale like a market yes a seafood market what they didn’t realize is this huge Lobster we got a picture of it right here we were fishing right this monster Lobster that was dinner we didn’t need anything else it
Was so big and that was I think it was a rock lobster right $35 for that whole lobster for both of us so what 17 yeah we shared that and that was a lot of meat so for about 156 $17 a piece we’re eating a huge Lobster so if you look and
You find out where you can find this we went today just on a search to see what we could find and look what we found mhm the Tails two tails now that in itself those two tails we could have a salad and be in pretty good shape
Those lobster tails we got in a local store local chain for about $13 for both of them for both of them that’s right so we looked when we were down there and we found main lobsters yeah main lobsters have claws lots of meet in those too there’s they’re the guys with the claws
Now when we’re down south in the Keys during lobster season you can go and take the rock lobsters the rock lobsters do not have the big front claws like the main lobsters which is good CU they tried to get me with the claws they would mhm the tail of the main lobster
There’s not half the meat that you would find in a rock lobster but there’s the claw the claws are good and Claw delicious yes my favorite is The Rock Lobster we ate for $15 a piece mhm and it was enough Lobster that we had gotten our fi we didn’t even want any more
Lobster that’s pretty bad so many times the stigma involved with a lobster is if you go to a fancy restaurant and you get to State right and say oh you Lobster get a lobster added market price that’s expensive and your Lobster comes in and it’s $75 for
Tail so just remember when you’re out and about look around if you’re on the coast look for a seafood place look for a wholesale place sometimes they’ll let you in that place let us in right they don’t typically sell to the general public but we knocked on doors yeah and
Next thing you know we’re eating like kings for nothing now how do you fix a lobster well I tell you what we did we took our lobsters some Crab Boil lemon celery and the celery leaves are good some onion you take this put it in a pot
Get that water boiling and let that Lobster go for about 12 13 minutes on this and that’ll cook all the way through and that will be lovely I’m going to turn it down just a hair and that’s going to taste fantastic so we got Gator and lobster and cauliflower
All kinds of wonderful things to but first let’s finish our homemade buffalo sauce so we’re going to have about 3/4 a cup of your favorite kind of hot sauce so now we’re going to take some white vinegar you need to have just that little bit and I’m going to put
Tablespoon and a half so we’re going to take a little salt stir for you little pepper little celery seed and some more sister shower now I’m going to take maybe let’s put a tablespoon in there see where that gets us now if you want to thicken it up you can put a little
Cornstarch slurry in there but I think this is going to be just about perfect so there is just how simple it is to make buffalo sauce next thing we’re going to do is make a gator Fritter yummy we’re going to put oh I don’t know
A/4 of an inch of oil in there for our fritters we’re going to take two cups of flour on this show unless we say different it’s always allpurpose and any kind of seasoned salt that you like I’m just going to put my dry rub mix in
There because it has a little bit of cayenne has a little bit of sugar and it has some salt in it we’re going to take a half a cup of cornmeal and 1 tablespoon of baking powder mix that up real good and we’re going to
Put about a cup of beer or you can put clam juice if you have some of that you’re going to mix this up till it gets right then we’re going to cut up half a cup of red pepper half a cup of green pepper about 3/4 a cup of onion we’re
Going to take one tblspoon of garlic and we’re going to press that so now what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our onions and garlic and peppers and put those better everything yes and we’re going to put our jalapeno peppers in there 2 tbspoon of jalapeno I’m going
Use pickled jalapeno on that we’re going to put in one egg then a/4 cup of our corn relish that gives a nice little Zing you can use regular corn if you want to put in there and then we’re going to have about a cup and a half to
Two cups of alligator again you could do this with fish or anything you wanted to put in there so now this Gator meat what you’re seeing right here this is the tail it’s the whitest firmest part the leg meat is darker I like it just as
Much but it’s it’s more of a darker meat there’s also jow meat there’s back meat so now we’re going to add our Gator to our Fritter mix and if you’ve watched our show for a while over the years you’ve seen us make some fritters and it’s probably going to be very similar
To some bluegill fritters we made a while back but if you want to make a meal you think if you made fish you’d make hush puppies to go along with it what happens when you take your hush puppies and turn them into Freds with the meat already there yum all right so
I’m going to take my little ice cream Dipper and I’m gonna get some oil in it and we’re going to take a scoop of all our wonderful flavors here we’re going to take this pop it out the smell of these frers when they cook it is just so
Appealing and appetizing I can’t even explain to you how good they are and you know I don’t have my oil going crazy here I’m going to slowly turn it up get it up to speed Gator frer are you kidding me all right one more sauce we
Need to make Nikki when I think about it what do you need with your Gator bits ralon ralon and we’re going to do that we’re going to make a simple one here all we’re going to do is take about a couple of mayonnaise couple tablespoons of mustard we’re going to put some
Horseradish about a teaspoon of that and a little bit of hot sauce some sweet pickle juice we got some of those I’m going to put some dry rub in there it’s got paprika and wonderful things like that and we’re good to go all right the batter for the cauliflower
Is half a cup cornstarch half a cup of flour remember if we don’t say anything otherwise it’s all purpose and it is all purpose half a teaspoon of baking powder some salt and what we’re going to do is put about a cup of beer in here till you get that
Consistency just right if you wanted to you could use water but I like that flavor our temperature is now about 280 I’m not going to fry this to death I want this to have L crunch you do not I repeat have to have things at 350 you
Know a lot of the on the- counter stuff is preset at 350 so you’re destined to burn stuff so that’s why I like something and I really watch my control there I watch my temperature gauge because it’s not right on it could be 10 15° difference now these went about 8
And 1 half minutes 9 minutes now look with that corn starch and the flour they’re very crispy so I’m going to come back in here with some of my buffalo sauce and I’m going to take and toss very very crispy you need that because they’re going to be soaked in the buffalo
Sauce so your buffalo sauce is you’re just going to evenly turn these now you would probably want some blue cheese on there wouldn’t you I would I’m not a big blue cheese fan so here’s what our little snack is going to look like everything here is fresh and
Homemade Kelly just mentioned these look like wings well they do but the crunch on this is the most valuable part and that’s where the cornstarch came in handy and you’ll find as you make some dishes a lot of stuff if you want to fry and get a really nice crunchy coating
Including fish cornstarch comes in mighty Handy Look what we’ve got very nice we actually did stuff tonight that we weren’t going to do on the show because I thought ooh we need some ramalan we need some buffalo sauce we got some fresh Ranch I’ll tell you what Let’s do let’s start with a cauliflower and then put some fresh
Ranch on that mhm wow even if you don’t like cauliflower you this is I can’t even describe the taste it’s so good this is really good it’s a meat substitute it really when you leave it in there for that amount it’s a little warm is it I’m
Double dipping cuz it’s just me and you go ahead and try your Gator Fritter that’s a meal in itself and I’m not kidding you that’s just beautiful that is delicious oh wow we need some more Gator we’re going to have to get more Gator that is absolutely delicious it is really good
Gator Fritter and I like the peppers and the peppers are sweet in it that is so good thanks for helping us out with our poll I really like to see what people would like to spend on a meal so on and so forth we showed the myth of the expensive
Lobster if you look you can make dinner out of that you could put that on a salad you could put it in pasta and have use something special this was I think it was $13 for both for both of us I’m going dip in butter and have a bite make
Sure it’s good and think about a pasta dish you could do with that and I’m telling you what look at that that’s beautiful you want a little extra hot sauce and then dip it over here I’ll dip on this side you dip on the other This
Is A Feast for a king right here I love it that’s a crunch it still has a crunch oh my my still got stuff cooking here here we’re just going to keep on eating Kelly hasn’t even started yet that being said said M farmer if somebody would come to you and
Say I really would like to know how do you get to these gazillions recipes that you have where would you tell them to go I tell them timfarmerscountrykitchen docomo how to build things how to do things so visit Tim Farmers country kitchen.com for recipes howtos if you
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With us tonight we’ll see you next week at the brand new show it’s all about good times good friends and really good eats Woe We have been catering for a lot of years and I wanted everything to have a specific taste therefore I had to come up with my own products right a dry rub chow chow and our barbecue sauce or something that we use in all our catering gigs I developed this barbecue
Sauce that is not the really thick syrupy stuff that you get this is has more of a natural it’s got some pepper and onion flavor in you can actually see the particulates in there you know a lot of people are asking what we use our dry rub on now obviously pork and chicken
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