CouesWhitetail

I am dreaming of Belize again too!!

I have a friend who makes the best mesquite cookies! I love them. We made mesquite syrup from the beans last year...it was excellent.

The soaptree yuccas are flowering now in southern AZ and I decided to pick some flowers the other day on the way home from the Huachucas. I have eaten the flowers raw in the past and they are a bit like cabbage, perhaps more bitter. So I wanted to try something new with them and saw that some people recommend dipping the petals in tempura batter and frying them. So that's what I did. Some people suggest you should eat only the petals of the flower because some people find they get a scratchy feeling in their throat if they eat the flower reproductive parts (probably due to allergic reaction to the pollen). Anyway, I separated the petals off the flowers, rinsed them off and then dipped them in tempura batter and fried them. The first batch I did as individual petals and I don't recommend doing them this way for a couple reasons. One is that it's labor intensive and two is that you lose the flavor of the petals. So I got smarter and tried dipping large groups of petals together so that there was more petal per batter ratio. It worked pretty well, but the petal flavor is still very subtle and if you really want to taste them, you might try some raw in your salad. Other people online suggested treating them like artichoke hearts and marinating them in oil and then putting in salads. I think next time I might try adding some curry to the tempura batter and see how that is. pics: pic of single petals after frying pic of clusters of petals after frying, definitely prefer clusters of petals.

I have never really been a big fan of bear meat, but this looks good!

Looks excellent! Thanks for sharing your meal with us!

Great selection of animals you got there! Love the coatis...somehow I always laugh when I see pics of a bunch of coati tails.

nice bears!

A friend of mine saw your truck and sent me the pic. Who is it?

I also read awhile back that Paul Ryan wants to sell off public lands, which I am not in favor of. I get a ton of use out of our nation's public lands and think it's one of our best assets. Selling them off to pay for spending is bad for this country. you can google it for more info

cute cub!

good to hear you are getting some work and helping out some members!

Very nice!

That's weird! Did you upload the photo to the forum or are you using a URL link of some kind?

LOL!! I tried waving, but I was a little slow.

I saw you a couple days ago....white 30 inch sticker with deer on the front windshield....who was it? Amanda

Yes, I was heading east in my maroon jeep and you were heading west about 430 pm maybe?

Lots of guys on this site have said thermacell works....I haven't tried it, but sure sounds like a good option.

Excellent!

No, I haven't had anyone ask for that yet. Interesting idea.

My friend saw this in her neighborhood around Valencia in Tucson. This is the 50 inch sticker that I think looks great on trailers. Who is it?

I used to love the old pronghorns, but the new ones they came out with in the last couple years hurt my feet and they are very heavy. I switched to the Salomon quests boots http://www.rei.com/product/780681/salomon-quest-4d-gtx-hiking-boots-mens

Wow, interesting.

Neat collection of pics! That's a long-eared owl....I have yet to see one of those in AZ!

GREAT Coues buck Josh!! Wow! double matching droptines is so rare! What a find!!! Congrats! fyi, I fixed your pics in your post for you.....you just rotate them before uploading them so they will show correctly. The forum has no way to know which way you intend for the pic to be rotated, so you have to have the pics in the correct position before uploading. When viewing a list of files in windows you can just right click and rotate very easily, but I think you use a Mac and so I don't know how to do it there. Maybe you can just right click and rotate also? That way you don't even need a photoediting program for it.

Happy Birthday Shelvin!!