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Larose is where the wild things are. The eating kind.
The Bayou Civic Club hosts its Annual Wild Game Supper Thursday, Feb. 26, featuring the usual fare including crowd favorites such as White Oyster Soup, Hogwings, Wing and Tail Jam-balaya made with Shrimp and Quail, Rabbit and Apple Sauce, Alimony Pie and Kangaroo Pouches.
The supper will also be introducing new dishes including Wild Turkey Spaghetti, Buffalo Jalapeno Poppers, Barbecue Shrimp and Grits, Turtleback Courtbouillion and Duck and Deer Kabob.
The 40-plus dishes will be prepared by some of the best professional and amateur chefs of the Bayou Region. Diners will vote on the dishes, as they do every year, based on best of three categories: fin, fur or feather.
The supper will be adorned with over $1 million worth of prized animal mounts for diners to ogle.
Proceeds from the Wild Game Supper will go toward the Bayou Civic Club long-term endowment fund, which operates the Larose Regional Park. The Bayou Civic Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and gets no government funding. The Larose Regional Park provides the Larose region with youth sports, summer camps and swim teams, among other things to the community.
There will also be a live auction with many prized items up for grabs including handmade rocking chairs, prized guns, and the rights to put whatever one wants to on the back cover of the Bayou Civic Club’s new Wild Game Cookbook.
Every year the Bayou Civic Club honors an individual who has contributed to the community and its culture with their Outdoor Icon Award.
“It was more or less to entertain the local hunters, you know,” said Magnus Arceneaux, the 2014 Outdoor Icon and one of the men who started the Wild Game Supper with brothers Pat and John Brady over 30 years ago. “If you had a piece of meat you wanted to get cooked that night, you brought it.”
The event was accompanied with card games and good conversation.
Arceneaux said the supper started with only a handful of men, numbering around 20, but now, “it’s unreal, the people that come to that thing!”
Admissions for individuals is a $60 donation, but table reservations with servers start at $800 and go up from there. All tickets must be purchased in advance.
For more information, visit http://www.bayoucivicclub.org/features/wild-game-supper or call 985-693-7355.
Bragging rights and awards are at stake at the Feb. 26 Wild Game Supper in Larose.
