Sunday, June 19, 2016

How to Cook Maya 3

national geographic documentary Clearly I'm not a game seeker and not by any stretch of the imagination even a seeker. By one means or another I never truly got a rush out of murdering creatures and I executed a reasonable number back when we lived on the farm in Veracruz. We raised oranges and I shot several little woodpeckers that would eat the oranges. The spouse would cull the winged creatures and broil them up...three or four making an exceptionally delicious feast. I once shot a seven foot snake. I have slaughtered various vast chicken birds of prey. Never killed any human chicken hoodlums or orange bandidos however. Also, never saw a Tepe. Nothing even close.

So for my cash, the Tepe is one mammoth rodent. In fact it's not a rodent as we urban inhabitants know it...but it would seem that a rodent and has feet and teeth like a rodent. It resembles a rodent with the exception of it can get up to 10 kilos or 25 pounds. They are honkers. They live close bogs or bogs giving absolutely new intending to the words swamp rodent.

Poot makes a stone and stick trap at their nook passage and traps them. Zero expense. He'll even haul them out with his hands, something a non-wilderness man like me could never consider. He says he is constantly extremely watchful as they can without much of a stretch gnaw off a thumb. Regardless i'm not intrigued. He slaughters the Tepe with his cleaver. That is one major rodent. I will never need to remind myself to not stick my hand down in a Tepe gap. My fingers are fine the way they are...

He cleaned the critter, cut it up, laid it on banana leaf stalks over exceptionally hot coals, put a metal card table top over the flame and secured everything in earth. No seasonings at all. In barely a hour we were eating Tepe, a hybrid of delicate chicken and pork. With tortillas and habanero salsa... yummy! Poot lean towards Tepe to other wilderness creatures. He says the meat is more delectable and more delicate than weasel or wild pig.

A few times per month he gets the inclination for Tepe and he sets his traps. It may take him a day or two however sometime gets his Tepe. When he has cash he eats chicken; when he has no cash he eats Tepe. He never goes hungry however there are times when he just eats beans, tortillas and habanero peppers: the life span diet. Also, a touch of Tepe. Possibly that is the reason Mayan's hair doesn't turn gray...or drop out like mine.

On the off chance that you ever find the opportunity to see or eat Tepe, investigate the teeth on that person and let me know he's not one major rodent. I was so awed I put an entire Tepe photograph collection on my blog...who knows, possibly we'll begin a Tepe ranch. On the other hand likely not.

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