The McNulty Family's Memorable Meals

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. My brother, sister, and I each had only year-old kids by the time our parents died. So when our eventual six children were growing up, we tried to make holidays special in other ways than being with grandparents. One year we cooked a baby pig with an apple in its mouth, but most exciting was cooking a huge snapping turtle. We borrowed an old-fashioned cast iron pot and settled it on a wood fire. A library book said they were done when their toenails were loose, so the children had to take turns with that task. Cutting up a turtle is quite an ordeal, but you get delicious meat that tastes like chicken, pork, or rabbit. I do think that wiggling turtle toenails made it a holiday to remember!