Carrots running for their lives at 2:00 Roast Racoon (don't knock it till you try it) 1 racoon, cleaned and cut into quarters. Be sure to remove the gland from beneath the legs before cooking 1 large onion 2 carrots 2 cups of beef broth (this can be subbed with vegetable broth) 1 teaspoon of thyme 1 teaspoon of rosemary Salt & pepper, to taste Water, for boiling Carefully cut and remove as much of the fat from the racoon as possible. It's perfectly realistic and ok to not remove all of it, just try to remove the most that you can. As is the case with most wild game, the gameness is in the fat. Submerge the racoon in water in a deep pot, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. This is a parboil. Drain out the water and discard. Now over the parboiled meat toss in cut onion, carrots, thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper & broth. Cover and simmer for 2.5 hours at 300 degrees. When done shred the meat from the bones. Mashed Potatoes. This is my go to recipe. It's simple and cheap compared to other mashed potato recipes. Give it a try 😊. 2 pounds of yellow fleshed potatoes 2 tablespoons of butter 0.5 teaspoons of fresh thyme 0.5 teaspoons of fresh rosemary Salt & pepper to taste Water, for boiling Mashed potatoes taste great when prepared with either peeled or unpeeled potatoes. It's entirely up to you what you'd rather use. Submerge peeled or unpeeled potatoes in a pot filled with enough water to cover them. Boil till they are soft enough for a fork to easily pass through them. This can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes. Remove from the water and mash till very smooth in a bowl with butter, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper.

From the time of the depression and during WW2 and the 1940s and 1950s after when there was still a lot of real shortages and rationing, nearly every wild animal was taken for food. There were some who even collected freshly killed road kill and made stews with them. In our area you didn't see deer, racoons, skunks, squirrels, and-so-forth even on the roads until the early 1960s. Now they are everywhere including our back yard. People got permission from my Mother back then to hunt for nuts, mushrooms, dandelions, berries, and whatever else they could make into something edible and they could find in our woods. We also found the woods to be a wonderful larder at times.

This is both a fascinating and sobering reminder that I'm very privileged to enjoy even the relatively humble diet I have. For hundreds of years, proteins like squirrel and raccoon have fed families, through good times and bad. Thank you for this window into that long-standing cooking tradition

I know if I was hungry, I'd eat it happily. Watching with food aversion and morning sickness... was an experience. 😂

This is the art of true peaceful living..no materialistic competition like brand names,cars, phones..just existing I'm the world and being grateful for it.

I don't get why people are weirded out by something like raccoon when eating any form of crustacean or squid is arguably stranger.

I'm so glad to see someone show that a lot of wild game was consumed. My family made raccoon barbecue just like pork barbecue. Squirrel, rabbit and ground hog were family favorites. Thank you so much.

Oh, my !! Brings back some wonderful memories of spending time with my great grandmother Melissa and grandma Hilda! We'd cook just about anything: raccoon, squirrels, possum, rabbit, wild doves and quail, even the occasional rattle snake! I didn't care for possum unless we made it into jerky; too gamey and greasy. 😂

That first shot of Mish Mish looked like a bear standing next to you. Lol

I had a hard time getting over the racoon but I'm not a the cabin in the 18th to 19th century. It does look like a modern pot roast. Thanks, Justine and we will catch your Chew and Chat in the morning. Be blessed! xoxo

Maybe if I was starving I would eat racoon. Justine can cook anything and make it look good❤

I'm a bit queasy right now.... but truth be told,, you're an amazing cook.😉

A beautiful house in the heart of nature, delicious and organic food, the sound of firewood burning and giving heat, all of them were wonderful and enjoyable for me. Thank you for sharing this great video. 🥰🥰😍👍

Hello Justine 👋👋. Happy 2024! I have never had raccoon, but you made that meal look very delicious! Excellent skills, my friend! 😊👌

My Grandmother in law (born and lived for years in a log cabin) introduced me to racoon when I and my new wife moved in 1981 to where she grew up (Really- the area is named Possum Kingdom Arkansas!) She cooked it with sweet potatoes. I think it pretty good!

Mish Mish is too much cuteness ! He should be modeling for magazines.

I really love that setup you all have. I'd love to live in the woods like that, plumb away from society. Keep up these great videos.

I love the channel. Though I may not have to make these recipes, being the prep type, its absolutely good to know whats tasty and available.

Wow, Justine! I have to give you the utmost respect for this one! I don't know if I could make it or eat eat it. It made a beautiful video and meal, though! It definitely looked tasty. Great job, as always! 💜

Your channel is so much fun. Thank you for sharing! 😊

I’m so glad I came across your channel. As I was headed to the dr the other day I saw an older man cleaning a raccoon. I was so intrigued. I was tell my dr about what I saw and he said yes raccoon is delicious. Now I have to try it. Thanks for sharing.

I’d love to learn to cook more wild game honestly. Just another resource to have and to know.

Some real rustic cooking this week. We going to see some more game meats,I know they ate some animals we don't consume in modern society. My grandparents ate groundhog from time to time and many squirrels and rabbits. Most of the time the meat was cut in pieces and fried in lard with biscuits and gravy.😊 Bon appetit.

I happened to stumble upon this video by accident and am so glad I did. Thoroughly enjoyed it and am now hooked. I can't stop watching your videos. I appreciate both you and your fiancé tremendously. Congratulations on your engagement and new upcoming home. I am binging your videos with my husband to get caught up. Happy cooking and chatting. 😊❤

Wow! Who knew? (at least these days) Thank you! Very interesting.

I have lived in the country all my life in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. I never developed a taste for raccoon. It was my Uncles favorite dish.

Well, I've never eaten raccoon, but that looked like pot roast to me ! You said it was delicious and it certainly looked it ! ❤

Thank you for sharing how to prepare raccoon.

Now here's a meal you don't get at McDonald's 😳😂

Been there done that live in south Louisiana it’s still a staple with the real old folks ❤

1:30 “and then set to medium high heat”😂😂

Very cool, very interesting. I never would have considered raccoon. Looks amazing, great job!

Okay, I always enjoy what you cook. However, before I even finish this one, or watch your review on the other channel. Unless there is another depression or nuclear war, I’m drawing the line on raccoon. Still, I love your channel though!

God bless everyone

Excellent interesting video, i'm fascinated by raccoons and I never thought of Consuming a raccoon. I imagine it in the same realm as when people say Cook a possum but that's probably good too. I drained water from foods onto the same area for awhile and in the summer it created quite a problem with flies

My granny was from Floyd County KY and she had live thru the depression. She raised 9 kids alone after my grandfather died of a massive heart attack brought on by black lung disease. Racoon, possum, groundhog, squirrel, and anything else she could cook to feed her children. If you walked into her house and there was a pot on the stove with potatoes or sweet potatoes in it, u had to ask what was in it. As a very young boy, I tried raccoon, possum, nutrea, rabbit, squirrels but no groundhog.

Tried it once and that has done me for the last 50 years

"Best to avoid the city ones" 😂 because they are eating fentanyl and week old McDonald's.

I am so very sorry to say yuk!!!! As a child, my dad went hunting and got raccoon. Everybody was so excited UNTIL THE COOKING STARTED, THE SMELL WAS TERRIBLE AND CLEARED OUT THE 3 STORY HOUSE INCLUDING MY DAD. LOL.😅😂 mom continued to cook it, but the smell never went away. Needless to say, nobody ate raccoon than night or any night after. Thank you for sharing your skills and ideas with your utube fans

WOW, who knew????? Happy New Year guys & many blessings.

I love the sound of a woman cooking. I could curl up in the corner of a kitchen and be sawing logs in under minute.

I love your channels! The food you cook looks delicious. I would love to know where to get a rectangular wooden bowl like you used to put your carrots in. I love that bowl!! Thank you!!

The only raccoons I ever see are the flat ones on PA 51, but they don't look very appetizing. I don't know anybody that eats or hunts them either but I would try it if offered.

Looks absolutely delicious! I have never tried it, but I sure would after watching this!

I've never tasted roasted Trash Panda but I would after seeing your video. That looks down right mouthwatering!

Glad 😊 I found your channel and subscribed, great 📷 vidoes and 🎉Happy 🎊 New Year 2024.

My family ate lots of wild game when i was young! Rabbit, squirrel, dove, deer and raccoon were very popular!! I loved it!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤. Great video

Some consider racoons an annoyance and a delicacy, but as a homeowner and gardener, I know squirrels are a big pain in the butt! I had to cap my roof ends, put up metal flashing under the eaves and remove trees and cut back branches to fifteen feet away from my house to keep the squirrels from chewing up my home. I'm so glad my next-door-neighbor goes squirrel hunting and considers squirrel meat a delicacy!

I love this video but that bitty bowl for mashing potatoes was talent 😂

I love this so much!

That looks soooooo good, I would definitely try that if you offered it to me. Never had Raccoon, but would try it.

This is good knowledge to have. If the poop hits the fan, we are overrun with raccoons where we live. I'll now know to boil off the fat! 🦝

I've never tasted raccoon meat. (it would be hard for me to cook & eat one because I have pet raccoons) Thanks Justine.

congratulations JUSTINE, 🎉🎈🍾🎊 I noticed you wearing your engagement ring 💍, now it’s official, may GOD bless you and yours 🙏😇😊

When you first said raccoon , oh my gosh ,I'm thinking of the raccoons that eat garbage. Sounds like they eat pretty good in the wild.

You 2 are really awesome thank you !!!

That looks delicious! I would try it. I've had bison, rattlesnake, alligator, elk, etc. I may have to make racoon next on my list.

eating wild animals has been done for centuries that’s how people survived most of the meat is gamey has a strong flavour and like moose or deer you need to remove as much fat as possible I love moose sausage another great video the cat always makes me smile

Greetings from Montana 😊👋 WOW!! This is a first for me! I have to say….it looks delicious 😋 I’m headed to the chew and chat to get the scoop! Have a blessed and beautiful week ❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸

What a beautiful couldron! Absolutely lovely

That looks amazing! I would try it.

You ate Rocket! Star lord is going to be mad. Lol had to say it. (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Вы потрясающие, так рада Вашему новому видео ❤. Счастливого Нового года 💖🎉🎄🎉💖

The idea of eating raccoon doesn’t thrill me, but I would at least try it if I was offered some. It looked good once it was cooked and shredded. Those mashed potatoes though… I would be in heaven sitting by the fire with that bowl on my lap. I love a good potato! PS. My 7 year old shrieked, “Raccoon?!” 😅

In the beginning when you were cutting the fat, you had your engagement ring on. Then when you were cutting the carrots it was off. I'd love to see the ring! Wedding will soon be here!

This is absolutely amazing I love your cooking videos so much its peaceful brilliant and educational not to mention I love your skits❤❤❤ please keep up the great work bless you

My grandfather said sometimes food was so scarce that his friends grandfather in the 1800s had to cook chipmunks even. Some even resorted to mice.

Good job i love the recipe with wild game more of those

Sorry don't think I can try that meat!!

This would be a little hard to eat after having a pet raccoon growing up. But hey, when you’re hungry, food is food.

Thank you for sharing the recipe

I remember my dad made us rabbit in the 80s he told us it was chicken . I lived in Maine for 8 years and I tried moose and had deer meat many times .

OMG. You ate Ranger Rick 😮

I have had Bear, Rabbit , Ostrich , Turtle, snake , and other forest dwellers, but never Raccoon. Looks like I will have to try it .

Justine proving once more she means business against those pesky -skunks- racoons. Edited because I wanted the meat to be skunk but in a good way because of the feud Justine had with skunks.😂

Happy New Year! That looks so good!

Looks really good, thank you.

Wild game pot roast and potatoes sounds delicious

I've watched videos of a guy in England who hunts squirrels in orchards (where they're considered a pest). He brings them to a family that cooks them.

It’s still so fun watching you! 🎉

I grew up eating wild meat. Ive never tried raccoon though! It looks really good!

The rosted racoon looks tasty! I would have to try it! I never have eaten mushroom ketchup before. I have eaten boil racoon I am a hunter and a reactanitor.David Back.

Well it looks absolutely delicious ❤

Indeed I have cooked and eaten raccoon! The meat is very rich and delicious.

I really don't think I could eat Racoon, although you made it look so tempting..

If you're going to do varmints, how about possum or squirrel for your vittles.

I was surprised you drained it so close to the cabin

I never thought Raccoon would look tasty, but u make it look delicious. I would only eat Raccoon if u made it [genuine cooked]

Just discovered your channel. Thank you.

Candid sweet potatoes with raccoon is MAGICAL!!!!!!!!!

Awesome content! 🍲

I would definitely try that it looks delicious ❤

Back in the early 1990`s a buddy cooked a racoon at thanksgiving. He placed it on the table with the turkey and all the other food. I swore I wouldn`t eat it. But I did try it and believe it or not I didn`t touch the turkey. Aside from a pheasant that was the best meat I ever tasted. It`s seriously risky though because racoons do carry rabies. There is a video on youtube of a racoon dieing from rabies. It isn`t pretty. Now that I`m older and wiser...I`ll skip the racoon.

Great informative video. Not only do raccoons taste like really good pot roast, they are also very high in iron, more than 6mg per ounce of cooked meat. That is great bioavailable form of iron for anemic people like myself. On a side note, their fat is not so much unpalatable as are the multiple lymph nodes hiding in the fat. Once you cut out the small dark pea sized nodes, you can render the fat into a useable product as well.

Wow, 😮 thanks for sharing

Hey, I can't knock raccoon, it's game like anything else out there in the wild that people can forage. Just have to prepare it well and that looks like a delicious roast! I'd give it a try for sure.

I am not afraid to try new foods. I kinda figure if I'm hungry, I can eat about anything. It looks delicious!

Great job the food looks amazing

Looks delicious 😋!

💝💗💖 Does look very good. Thank you! ❇❇❇