Odd but yummy protein food find...Not for the vegetarians..

There is a Jamaican restaurant around the corner from my boyfriends. I use to get down on their beef patties but not since surgery.

They make an AMAZING curried goat! It is so flavorful and falls off the bone. Goat has a very strong flavor so I know not everyone will appreciate it but if you like lamb try some curried Jamaican goat!

Yea..I feel bad cuz its goat...and I like goats..and I work in an animal hospital so I figure for as many as I save I get a karmic credit to still eat a few...flawed logic I know lol.

Funny!  My husband grew up in India and his favorite curry is goat curry!  I made some too long ago and I have to admit it was delicious, but I couldn't get past the fact that I was eating goat.

Glad you liked it.  If you want to be brave and make it, just google any good beef curry recipe and substitue goat.

 Most lamb sold in stores is actually goat. goat is a caprine like a deer or sheep. The meat is very tasty and healthy.  The problem is most people dont know what meat to get from a caprine.  The leg and the backstrap are the best ask any deer hunter. The other cuts tend to be greasy.  But fine for burger.

BTW if you get a funny taste then you are eating either a male or a female put with a male. Try and eat only doe's seperated from males.

To get rid of the game flavor if you do get a male - soak over night in any vinegar baste you like. Stubs and Wickers are really good as well as Tabasco or Franks if you like spicy.

Raised goats for more than ten years- I love Sicilian goat meat balls with spicy marinara and zuchinni.

JB

LOL! I raise meat goats for the market.  I have registered south african boers that get to 350lbs by adulthood.  Kids average 80-100lbs by about 5 months.  People don't realize that goat meat is a red meat that has less fat, calorie and colesteral than white meat chicken.  It's one of the healthiest meats you can get.  The meat is much milder if you can get a wethered male (castrated) or female that is young.  The stronger the meat means older, or male that was intact.  They tend to taste somewhat like venison.  Goat meat also makes wonderful salami, sausage, hot dogs and ground meat for tacos, etc.  It is also served in 5 star restraunts under the name of Chevon. 

Fascinating! That is one good looking goat!

Lol Stephanie. Half of me feels bad looking at him and the other half makes me want to send you my address so I can get some to cook at home! Ha!

OMG.. that goat looks delish! I want to BBQ it right now! Can you guys give me some tips on how to cook goat meat? I especially like recipes for cooking dummies.

The goat in the picture is Ding's Triple J ,  he is one of my herdsires, my other herdsire is a solid red Kalihari named Folger's Classic Brew.  LOL!

One of my favorite ways to cook goat is to get a leg and have it deboned or debone it yourself..  Rub it down with olive oil about 6 cloves of crushed and minced garlic, salt and pepper.  Put half a raw onion, one unpeeled carrot and a handful of fresh rosemary and thyme in the center then roll it up, tie it and put it in the crockpot with about a cup or so of beef stock.  Set the timer for 10 hours, at 4 hours take a jar of Pace Picante sauce or your favorite homemade salsa and put about a cup and a half over the top of the leg.  At 8 hours baste it with the juices in the crockpot and  put another cup or so of salsa on the top again. Let it finish cooking, remove and cover with foil for 15 minutes.  I usually take the juices left in the crockpot and pour into a pan and heat to a boil then thicken with cornstarch and use it to top rice that I serve with the leg.  The leg should just fall apart into chunks and can be put into fresh tortillas with guacamole, sour cream, cheese and your rice as a side. 

Now that I have had WLS I would probably sub quinua for the rice and make sure my condiments are all low fat or FF and use greek yogurt in leiu of the sour cream..

I have lots of goat recipes but that one is the easiest and family favorite. 

Thank you, that sounds wonderful!  I'm going to give that a try, minus the rice of course.  Oh did I mention I ADORE goat's cheese?  Do you make your own?

Yes, cheese but not the hard or aged cheeses, I also make goats milk soap and we raise our own chickens, eggs, geese, ducks.  We used to raise rabbits and quail but they are too labor intensive.  I also make our laundry detergent and most of my cooking is scratch cooking.  I believe that homemaking is a forgotten art and I love learning new techniques and reviving old ones.  We grow about 80% of the food we eat including veggies.  I can barter for the foods we don't grow or raise by trading veggies, milk or soap.  I take a number of animals to market in the fall and can buy one or two calves which I raise and butcher one and resale the other at a profit that covers the feed.  I like that I know what they have been eating and I know they have not recieved un-needed medication or chemical. It's not for everyone but I love it.