Parakeet? That's a budgie, my good man. It's a light lunch really, although if you skewer and bbq it with a stuffed potato it can be a big meal.
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(FtR budgie is an informal name for a parakeet, presumably common in British English which I only know because in Harry Potter there's a reference to a water-skiing budgerigar)
Budgies are perfectly capable of water skiing. The salt improves their flavour. But only a dirty foreigner would refer to them as a parakeet.
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Hiyadere!
I am totally not finding any parakeet recipes(I'm easily entertained, sometimes). If I cook a potato with anything it's a pretty big meal.
Probably because you insist on referring to budgies as parakeets, like some sort of uncultured barbarian. Literally the first result in Google:Hiyadere!
I am totally not finding any parakeet recipes(I'm easily entertained, sometimes). If I cook a potato with anything it's a pretty big meal.
Not how I've ever cooked them, but sounds alright.
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I'd appreciate a link, google isn't cooperating. Now just because I don't call them that doesn't mean I don't know to use the term. My google-fu is stronger than that. Even went down a big long aboriginal diet path that was far and away the most interesting bit of the whole experiment.
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I would think that you could cook a parakeet pretty much any way you would cook a chicken. Of course then it would certainly just taste like chicken.
Funnily enough, the link just comes up as a server error. Yet the recipe is right there on the search page. Weird.
Basically, anything you can cook with a chicken you can do with a budgie. You just need to use less of everything. Kind of like cooking spatchcock.
Kill it, pluck it, gut it, stuff it, burn that sucker. They taste good with corn, carrots, or potatoes. Not the best with stir fry recipes, because they are very lean. Unless you're cooking a pet one, which I would not recommend.
Edit: Crosspost with Tim. It doesn't really taste like chicken. Squab is the closest taste I can think of. Maybe try some squab recipes. It's more of a bush tucker thing really.
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Where else would you get one?
In Australia? Um, everywhere? There is literally one on my balcony as I type this. If you're not over here travelling, I don't know why you would even try one to be honest. Pet ones are likely inbred and diseased.
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I suppose I should have known that they just fly around somewhere, but somehow it just didn't occur to me. I was down some rabbit hole thinking about farmer Brown sending little Jimmy out to feed the parakeets; a special butcher shop where I could go buy a package of boneless, skinless parakeet breasts, or maybe even some pre-seasoned parakeet hot wings, and the entire concept of wild parakeets was lost.
It's a bush meal. I'm sure most of my fellow Australians would be horrified at the idea of eating them at all. No one in the city eats rabbits either. I grew up in the country, so I'll eat just about anything. You can probably buy some skewers in rural NSW, especially out West. They're not really popular enough to spark an industry.
Technically, Sydney is apparently not part of their range. Which is somewhat surprising, as my front lawn is positively covered in them right now. Gotta love that Wikipedia. But if you called them a parakeet over here, no one would know WTH you were talking about,
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In the Philippines, they're love birds. Love birds here are American love birds.
We feed them canary seed. No one here knows what a canary is.We have canaries and love birds here. Apparently, we Australians know our birds better than Yanks do.In the Philippines, they're love birds. Love birds here are American love birds.
The only birds that matter are the Eagles, Cardinals, Orioles, Hawks (sea, war, or otherwise), Penguins, Ducks, Pelicans, Falcons and Ravens. I guess the Blue Jays matter too.
Also, the turkeys and chickens cause they're just so damned delicious.
Also, the turkeys and chickens cause they're just so damned delicious.
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you could probably cook parakeet like this
It's called ortolan. Although hunting them is now banned, they are small songbirds that they catch in france using nets as they migrate to north africa. They they stick them in dark boxes which makes them eat a ton of grain to double in size. Not sure why, it's some psychological thing. Then they throw them in a vat of wine like cognac and they drown and also marinate. Then they pluck them and pan fry. People eat them whole. Sounds nasty to me.
I mean, I like turkey and chicken, but it so much depends on the method of cooking, seasoning, etc. Plain chicken breast is not very good without adding a lot of fat and seasoning. Whole roasted chicken is good though.
It's called ortolan. Although hunting them is now banned, they are small songbirds that they catch in france using nets as they migrate to north africa. They they stick them in dark boxes which makes them eat a ton of grain to double in size. Not sure why, it's some psychological thing. Then they throw them in a vat of wine like cognac and they drown and also marinate. Then they pluck them and pan fry. People eat them whole. Sounds nasty to me.
I mean, I like turkey and chicken, but it so much depends on the method of cooking, seasoning, etc. Plain chicken breast is not very good without adding a lot of fat and seasoning. Whole roasted chicken is good though.
One of my fav things to do with whole chicken is split it in half and charcoal grill the halves, cavity side down. As long as you put enough salt on it, and don't over-cook it, any other spices you choose are going to be fine.
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