and now i have a spring in my step.
marinated kangaroo skewers with bush tomato chutney
at little creatures brewery in fremantle
the ‘roo was highly spiced, so much so that it could’ve been chunks of beef or lamb, for all i know. but the texture was tough, despite the 48-hour marinade. it wouldn’t be my first choice for red meat but i thought i might as well try a little kangaroo while i’m down under.
btw, little creatures is a fantastic microbrewery. luv their bright ale, the S.O. prefers their pale ale. we both adored our ray-of-sunshine pixie waitress. their shop lets you rent their logo-emblazened bikes for free (provided you have ID, which i didn’t).
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Shirley // March 2, 2009 at 10:40 pm |
Just dropping by.Btw, you website have great content!
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suddenly susan // March 3, 2009 at 2:22 am |
shirley, you can’t be serious.
Nat // March 18, 2009 at 9:17 am |
Wow…that is wow…what does it taste like???
suddenly susan // March 18, 2009 at 11:07 am |
like an old shoe. quite chewy.
Aussie Matt // March 21, 2009 at 4:57 am |
Roo meat like an old shoe??? You must have had a plonker cooking it for you. If its cooked properly its tender and tasty. Over cooking will turn it tuff.
I’m an aussie and i dont eat beef anymore. The reason: Kangeroo has next to no fat. Its good for the australian habitat, they release no methane (green house gasses) and they taste great!
Cows and sheep account for 30% of all CO2 emissions . Kangeroos 0%
suddenly susan // March 22, 2009 at 1:01 pm |
hi aussie matt,
the kangaroo skewers we had were served bloody rare but were still quite tough–and i think the reason is, as you say, because they have next to no fat.
good to know that ‘roo meat is good for the environment. people are gonna have to know how to cook it properly if it’s gonna catch on.
Barbara Drake // March 27, 2009 at 8:14 am |
Aussie’s Matt’s defense of eating roo meat made me smile: roos don’t fart/contribute greenhouse gases to the environment! That’s what he meant, right?
Maybe AM is onto something here. Every creature on the planet should be evaluated scientifically to determine how much gas they produce and fined/taxed if they go over a certain limit. I can think of a lot of policians who would run up a real carbon-trading tab.
suddenly susan // March 27, 2009 at 10:28 pm |
is it troo that roos really don’t fart? i dunno, they eat a lot of roughage
if people were taxed based on how much gas they passed, the chilli and kimchi-eating folks will be paying through their arses!
kushibo // March 31, 2009 at 12:35 pm |
Don’t cows fart so much because we feed them a diet their not biologically designed to consume (corn instead of grass)?
I fear if they started factory farming kangaroos, they’d also be fed something nasty and start spewing methane everywhere.
suddenly susan // April 11, 2009 at 10:33 am |
sorry, kushibo. i just now found your comment in my spam folder. a little googling led me to this bit of info:
“Cow farts are a source of greenhouse gases, while kangaroo farts are methane free thanks to a particular bacteria in their stomachs.”
it looks like aussie matt was right.
Mark B // June 1, 2009 at 12:07 pm |
I’m an ex-pat Texan living between Perth and Dallas. I’ve have KROO at the The Old Swan Brewery and in the Swan River Valley. Far better than any beef I’ve ever had. Tender and flavorful, extra lean, carbon neutral (the ‘roos don’t emit methane!), with a rich flavor that doesn’t dominate.
suddenly susan // June 3, 2009 at 3:58 am |
awesome.