Recipe - Alligator Cacciatora Banquet

3 Adult Alligators
15 pound Zucchini cut or sliced up
3 cn Black pitted olives cut or sliced up
1 cup Black pepper
4 cup Oregano
1 pack Bay leaves (small box)
4 cup Vegetable oil
50 pound Canned whole tomatoes
10 pound Sliced onions
1 cup Salt
One half cup Crushed red pepper
4 cup Diced fresh parsley
20 pound Assorted green & Red
1 Whole bulb of garlic

peppers Alligators... Discard head, feet and tail. Wash and cut into
individual portions. (so how much do 3 adult alligators weigh anyway?)
Borrow, beg or steal huge cooking pot. Use medium heat for oil and garlic.
Add alligator portions, turning often. Add tomatoes, bring to boil, simmer,
add salt, pepper, red pepper, oregano, bay leaves, and parsley. Cover and
simmer for 2 One half hours. Last 30 minutes add onions, peppers, zucchini. Last
5 min. add cut or sliced up olives. Serve with salad topped with favorite Italian
dressing and crisp bread. "New Orleans Cooks The Italian Way" Locovozzi &
Mollicone (note: this is a real recipe and there is a whole Italian area of
New Orleans which as you can see is spicy like cajun, but truely Italian. I
have though of ways to make this with some other meat, because we just
don't have alligators in Milwaukee! Maybe buffalo?)
Courtesy of Shareware RECIPE CLIPPER 1.2

Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #278

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:50:32 0700 (PDT)

From: Corky Courtright corky@discover.net