Gator Tater

Got my gator meat

We're gonna start by cutting our gator into chunks. We're gonna salt it, a little pepper

I'll never forget the first time I cooked gator meat. My son Bobby had been out to a friend's pond

and he called me and he said, Mama, you won't ever believe a gator came up and bit me on my shoe

so I killed him. and I said you did did he hurt you he said no ma'am he didn't hurt me but I just wanted to know if I

bring him home will you cook him I said you bring that tail to the house son and I'll fry him up

and I said and bring all your friends I think I cooked gator that night for about 20 males

gosh it's probably been 20 years and they still talk about that gator meal that they had now I've

just tossed it in some buttermilk and we're going to dredge it in the flour if you don't like gator

meat, use some chicken. And it kind of tastes a lot like chicken, too. So we've got our pot ready

It's at 350 degrees, and you'll hear me say that temperature a lot because that's just a good frying

temp. And we're going to fry this much like we would white chicken. It doesn't take a whole long

time to cook this. And you want to shake it and kind of get the excess flour off of it

And since we've got these little chunks, it really won't take us long at all

And I'm gonna just kinda move them around so that they'll brown evenly

And speaking of fried gator meat, it's floating now. And it's nice and brown, so we're gonna take it up

and drain it Look how pretty that is And back here we got chili for our smashed dogs And if you don like chicken you could actually even use a pork tenderloin

But I thought the gator was really appropriate. Next, I'm going to put together the fried gator taters

Now, if I fixed a potato at my house and didn't make this potato sauce that my children love

I don't even think they'd eat a potato. We're going to start with mayonnaise

and sour cream, chopped onions, fresh parsley, and a little salt and pepper

And this just does marvelous things for a potato. I've served this sauce with just boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, any kind of potatoes

And it's also wonderful in a casserole. And I'm just gonna mix those up, and that's our potato sauce

We're gonna take our potato, and these are so hot. Now you can do this a couple of different ways

You can just slice through your tinfoil, or you can unfold it

I'm gonna split the potato, and you can see the steam coming off that bad boy

He is hot as a firecracker. I'm just gonna stick a little butter in him

You know, out of all the foods, the potato is probably my very favorite of all foods

All right, now we're going to top him with a little potato sauce, or maybe a lot of potato sauce

A little cheddar, a little jack, a little gator tail. Look at that

And a little green onion. And you got yourself a fried gator tater