I love hunting and eating squirrell. I have a few different recipes I make. Looking for some other recipes. Anyone care to share?
Tree rat season opens 2 weeks from tomorrow here. I usually put them in the crock pot with a cup of chicken broth and some Montreal steak seasoning until they fall off the bone.
It's been years sine I cooked squirrel, but I usually just bread them and then fry them in a pan in a little oil. Lately whenever I hunt them I make sure I go out with someone else who wants the squirrels more than I do. I just like the practice before deer season.
We used to eat lots of them and just pan fried them. Hardest thing was skinning the buggers but I've learned a few other methods since. Still, I no longer hunt them. Seems deer are about the only thing I hunt any more although I may hunt turkeys a bit more now.
Theres a season for squirrel? WTF, they are part of the rodent family, hunting season should be year round
I like squirrel and noodles Cut squirrel coat with flour fry till browned then cover and bake till meat comes off the bone Cook homemade noodles then add meat and all pan dripings and a can of cream of chicken soup Bake a loaf of bread so you have something to sop with and you have a meal fit for a king
I boil them in chicken stock and then shred the meat. We usually make white chili with the shredded meat. Tastes like chicken to me.
Best method I ever saw was using a compressor hose and filling up the skin from a cut on the back leg. Blows up like a ballon, then it's easy to skin. First time I had squirrel I thought it was the best meat I'd ever tasted.
I may have to give that a try Al. And I agree squirrel meat can be tasty. When I was a young lad we ate a lot of pheasant, rabbit and squirrel during the fall of the year. Now I rarely small game hunt except for coon and woodchuck.
Plenty of woodchuck this year around here. Rabbit too. The only thing I hate are the raccoons that seem to keep coming back every time after rabies wipes em out. They are destructive buggers.
For sure and not many hunt them anymore so this makes it worse. Problem is they don't have one offspring! They multiply fast (coon). It is really bad if rabies sets in. I well remember the year we declared war on the coon. We lost at least 50 quarts of strawberries and found out it was coon. It did not take us long to get rid of a couple dozen of them in very short order.
Seems to be the standard. I'm glad someone likes them. Seems you would have to have a mess of them to make a meal. Meanwhile, I'll just have a PB and J sandwich.
3 of them makes a nice meal for me. Even 2 really. They surprisingly have a nice amount of meat on them. Some fox squirells get very big up here on the corn field edges.
If they are slow cooked, boiled and then shredded, they make quite a bit of meat when they're big fat squirrels.
