Best way to try frog's legs?
 

I've always been curious. BamaVol Jr #3 has expressed an interest in trying them as well. I would probably have to drive 100 miles from home to find a restaurant that serves them. However, they're usually available in the seafood department at the local Wal*Mart Supercenter.

Any special recipe you'd favor for a first timer? Not necessarily looking to disguise the flavor or anything, but wouldn't consider frogs legs sushi for a first time taste either.

The only way I've ever had them was fried. Basically, the same way one would cook fried chicken.

Not sure if store-bought will be the same as fresh-caught, but sometimes the legs jump in the pan when they are being cooked. ;)

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I could go the fresh caught way right in my back yard. The pool cover is still filled with a couple inches of water. Every year, various frogs and toads mate and lay eggs there. This year, we have a turtle gorging himself on tadpoles. But, since most of the frogs are little tree frogs, it would take a heck of a lot to make a meal. I'd like to see the legs move, but I'm afraid it wouldn't have a positive affect on my appetite.

LOL. No, the legs moving definitely does nothing for your appetite. But, I assumed this was about bullfrogs, not tree frogs. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfrog

In the case of bullfrogs, you need one of these to go the live route:

http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0017667015899a.shtml

Although, admittedly, my frog gig was more humane than these, you still had to beat their head on a tree to kill them. Messy bit of business and the short bark as they passed into lala land was a little disturbing as well. But what's a bubba to do on a weekend night in deep Northeast Texas? LOL.

I also suggest some waders and a helmeted floodlight or a flat-bottom boat that has a floodlight on it if you plan to go the fresh catch route. You catch these guys by venturing out into wetlands on a summer night. Be careful though...there are other predators afoot who might like you as much as bullfrogs. ;)

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Really there's little flavor to disguise. If someone offered them to you prepared like buffalo wings, you'd be none the wiser, except you'd be thinking they're the scrawniest wings ever.

depends, some of those legs are quite big.

as a kid I used to dine on fried frog's legs quite a bit, they were served in many restaurants in the Chicago area.

If on the northside of Chicago, a restaurant serves salt n pepper style at a Chinese seafood restaurant I like called Silver Seafood: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308625

I'm sure a search of Asian salt n pepper preparation would yield a how to.
Picture a dry stir fry with some garlic, chopped scallions, kosher salt, white pepper, I see shrimp or squid quite a bit more than frog's legs for obvious reasons but they all are good^ ^

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There is frog sashimi. The Japanese eat the heart while it's still pumping for male enhancement.

Let's keep it on frog's legs please :)

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Chinese ways. :)
Steamed with black bean; stir fried with garlic, flash fried, sauteed with salt & pepper. It's amazing, so delicate and soft. I wouldn't do it any other way.

I was prepared to answer your question with, "not at all." Boring -- the analogy of a scrawny, tasteless chicken wing in which the only flavor is the breading, applies.

However, this sounds appealing:

Provencale!

I've had it a few times.

Don't see what the big deal is except it is a frog.
It really tastes like chicken especially fried.

The first time was exciting because it was frog, after that. Done that lets move on to the next chicken like meat.

Deep Fried with Sweet and Sour Sauce.
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Best Frog Legs that I ever had was in a Buffett in El Dorado Arkansas. They were breaded with a cornmeal that normally was used for Catfish. But they added sea salt. Yummy

Not so easy to get in France anymore. Not sure about the details (I think its something to do with climate change and urban development) but the edible French Frogs have become an endangered species.

Most frogs consumed in Provence or elsewhere in France are shipped over from China. I'd say if you're going to have Chinese frogs you should try a Chinese recipe (I'm probably biased because I was made to eat a mousse made out of Frogs legs in France when I was too young to appreciate it)