Has anybody here tried ostrich?

[Beware the Beast Man]

The Mrs. and I are going to Trader Joe's this evening, and we're thinking about picking up some ostrich. Anybody have it before? If so, any suggestions on how it should be prepared?

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Yes, and it's GOOD!

I'd suggest doing it on the grill.

:)

[havocmom]

2. Have had emu and loved it. Ostrich is probably similar

Emu is really good red meat. We had some roasts (sorta sized like a really big, thick steak) and ground emu, which made the best burgers a bunch of us ever had. We did a taste test with emu and really good ground beef at a party. Emu burgers won in a landslide.

Meat is VERY lean on the emu. If you get ground meat and make burgers, there is really no shrinkage.

My daughter gets the ground ostrich and the ground buffalo at Trader Joe's and says it's really good, easy on her sensitive gall bladder.

Seems a better way to raise red meat. Takes less resources per pound if I recall what my emu raising co-worker was saying.

[Vanje]

3. I dated one once. Not a good kisser

Great legs though, and the sweetest eyes.

[boneygrey]

4. I had an ostrich burger

several years ago at a fair and found it to be rather bland and dry. I'd suggest you marinade the meat. Cooking on a charcoal grill would be a good idea.:9

[Waistdeep]

5. Nope

The omelettes are just too damn big.

[Schema Thing]

6. Yep. Good stuff. More like steak than chicken, oddly enough. n/t

[stellanoir]

7. It's really good for your heart

marinate extensively the ground ostrich in ginger soy sauce (house of Tsang). Sautee with onions and garlic and serve with hopefully homemade apple sauce. Yummmm.

[mockmonkey]

8. I tried it one Thanksgiving

Had so much trouble getting it into the oven. I had to tip the oven on it's back and jump up and down on the Ostrich.

The worst part was that I forgot to take out the bag of gizzards/liver from inside the chest cavity. Man, that is one long neck bone.

[Obviousman]

9. They say Ostrich has less fat, but you eat more of it.

[Dr.Phool]

10. I had it in a once

It had, I believe, a rasberry demiglaze. I didn't care for it that night, but I removed the demiglaze and took the rest to work the next day, and it was pretty good.

[MisterP]

11. no sex threads!

[Orsino]

12. I'd rather be an eagle n/t

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[TheCentepedeShoes]

13. Had it once as an appetizer

at a restaurant (Don Jose's in Temple Terrace, FL). Don't know how it was prepared but it was good.