Eat a squirell?

[WILDCATWICK]

Who has eaten squirll? How do you prepare it (what parts) Receipies?
Anyone have a bad experience eating squirlle?

[Gobblerman]

When I eat squirrel it is usually with rabbit. What I do is do bone the meat and cook it in the crock pot with cream of mushroom soup and seasoning's. Season to taste. Let it cook until deliciously tender.

[Happy Jack]

Never a bad squirrel. Ususally dust em with flour and seasoning and fry.
Just try not to think that they are a rodent and usually covered with fleas.
SORRY.

[robin]

When I was younger, my friend and I would cut the meat off the bone and use shake & bake. We would fry it and I loved it. The only bad experience I had was cutting off meat that had been soiled with a gut shot.

[mwakely]

An Old Kentucky favorite is squirrel and dumplings! It's my favorite way!

[Huntsman27]

with your favorite seasonings. Most excellent! Usually prepared with rabbit, venison, and maybe some birds for a wild game dinner. Rich

[Jumpshootin']

I like to brown the meat in hot oil, then put in a pressure cooker w/veggies(including a rudibaga). Then drain the juices to thicken for gravy. Serve over rice, noodles, mashed potatoes, etc......

[trout]

Sure have and still do!
Clean, soak to remove any blood from meat.
Cut into sections ( 4 legs, 1 back, remove rib cage)
Parboil until almost tender enough.
Roll in seasoned flour
Fry in pan with onions ,cover to simmer, reduce heat and drain,
add a little sour cream. Serve hot

[Moron]

We usually have a card game some time in the winter and those who have bring squirrels and rabbits for the pot. I section them out, 4 legs and backbone. Cut the ribs off. I cook them in a big electric roaster with cream-of-mushroon soup, garlic & herb, and whatever else seems right at the time until they're done but not falling off the bone. Then dip them in ritz cracker crumbs ground real fine and brown them in oil.

I love both, but think the squirrels might be just a little better than the rabbits. :)

Red squirrels though smaller are too tasty not to be added to the mix. I only save the backbone and hind legs, as one piece. They are easier to skin then the blacks, grays, and foxs. If you've never considered them table fare you don't know what you're missing. ;)

[goggleye57]

Young tender squirrels - cook almost any way you would cook chicken. Older tough ones- dredge in flour, salt and pepper. Brown in hot oil, put in a crock pot and cook until tender. Maybe put just a little broth in the pot as it cooks, not anymore than you have to. My favorite wild meat!
my Dad used to skin out the heads, pop out the eyeballs and flour and fry the heads too. He would bust open the skulls with the heavy end of a table knife and eat the brains. His favorite part. If you wanted a dirty look put a 22 bullet through the head. He'd always say why didn't you shoot them in the chest? :)

[Huntsman27]

squirrel brains down yuk. Then again I dont eat the guts either. Leave the deer guts for anyone who wants heart liver or what have you!

[thornapplelkbanjopicker]

BBQ BUSHYTAIL SANDWICHES
three or four squirrels, boiled till' tender, debone and throw em in a crock pot with with a half a pack of bacon, chopped onion and your favorite bbq sauce, cook till' the bacons done and serve on buns.

[Bwana]

with your favorite seasonings. Most excellent! Usually prepared with rabbit, venison, and maybe some birds for a wild game dinner. Rich
Huntsman has the ticket here. I prefer fried squirrel personally.

[Hawker]

I've eaten squirrel that others have prepared, and it's just fine. Me, well, skinning the things reminds me of playing tug-of-war with a Rottweiler. So I just dress them, section them skin on, and feed them to the bird.

[PrtyMolusk]

Howdy-

Check our 'Recipes' forum for more ideas, or do a site search. I know there have been many posts on this topic...

As I recall, Thunderhead posted one of his favorites a couple of years ago.

[Moron]

I don't hunt them myself anymore, I let the youngsters with good eyesight do that. :) But I do help clean em and cook em. The easiest way for me to do it is to clamp the hind feet in a vise tail up. Don't gut them out first or this medthod doesn't work. Cut through the bottom of the tail just above the a-hole without cutting the hide on the top side. Separate the hide/tail from the body both ways out toward the hind legs. This gives you a hand grip to pull the hide down and over the head and front legs. It will tear around to the belly side as you pull it. Remove from vise and pull the rest of the hide from the hind legs. Cut the legs off, remove entrails from carcess, and snip the ribs off short. It's fast when you get the hang of it, and you get very little hair on the meat. You can do the same process in the field by stepping on the tail after making initial cut and pulling up on the hind feet, then bag them up.

[UPwannabe]

my Dad used to skin out the heads, pop out the eyeballs and flour and fry the heads too. He would bust open the skulls with the heavy end of a table knife and eat the brains. His favorite part. If you wanted a dirty look put a 22 bullet through the head. He'd always say why didn't you shoot them in the chest? :)

With the outbreak of CWD, I would be careful eating the brains. The main area of the US where Jacob-Crutzfeld disease (Human variation of CWD) has been found is in the Cumberland mountain region where it is a common practise to eat squirrel brains. Many people think there is a link between the two.

[Randy Kidd]

Cut them up 4 legs and the back, plop them into the crock pot with just a little beer. slow cook them until they are just about done, Roll them in seasoned flower, Brown them in hot oil until golden...Ummm good vittles..My dad used to mix the brains in with scrambled eggs..It tasts good. I just don't do it.

[BarryPatch]

Squirrel satay is the way to go. De-bone, skewer, season, coat lightly with peanut oil. Grill for a couple minutes and searve with peanut sauce, thai red chillie sauce and a cool cucumber salad. Dont over-cook or they'll be tough. Fast & hot or low and slow will produce tender meat. Anything in between will be like eating rubberbands.

[Adam Waszak]

Young tender squirrels - cook almost any way you would cook chicken. Older tough ones- dredge in flour, salt and pepper. Brown in hot oil, put in a crock pot and cook until tender. Maybe put just a little broth in the pot as it cooks, not anymore than you have to. My favorite wild meat!
my Dad used to skin out the heads, pop out the eyeballs and flour and fry the heads too. He would bust open the skulls with the heavy end of a table knife and eat the brains. His favorite part. If you wanted a dirty look put a 22 bullet through the head. He'd always say why didn't you shoot them in the chest? :)


That I hope is a joke :yikes: If not you may need therapy now. I think after reading that i need therapy :tdo12:

AW

[bigmike]

I'm getting hungry because of you guys:) I like mine fried or the crock pot:lol:

[rgillett]

I like to par boil the cut up squirrels, let cool, de-bone the meat and then use the meat in a 'Brunswick Stew' or a pot pie with pie crust on the bottom or biscuits on top. Most cookbooks have some kind of Stew or Pot pie recipe and just substitute the squirrel for beef, rabbit, pheasant or whatever the recipe calls for. Its a New Year's Day tradition for our family to watch football and clean out the freezer from the accumulation of squirrels. Now that we got a couple more months of season it could become an Easter tradition.

[nitrojoe]

squirrels are horrible, thats why i dont hunt them anymore. along with turkeys.

[BarryPatch]

squirrels are horrible, thats why i dont hunt them anymore. along with turkeys.

Maybe you're just a lousy cook:lol: .

Just kidding.

[MI_Bowhunter]

in a crock pot covered with cream of mushroom soup and beer. Killer.


But dang the bark is hard to get off. That's why I prefer bunny.

[Splicer]

crock pot cream of mush then put it on top of some white rice and your done for the day :corkysm55
nitrojoe-i can see some people saying that about tree rats but turrkey... did you remember to turn the oven on? :lol:
rick

[Huntsman27]

from the gun show, you guys are making me hungry!

[Erik]

That I hope is a joke If not you may need therapy now. I think after reading that i need therapy

Adam,
squirell brains is a delicacy in some parts. True aficionados prefer theirs uncooked.
I only know this because my parents were "old school". You know, head cheese, blood sausage, and the like. I guess back in the old days, before processed food, people ate what was available to them, and didn't let anything go to waste.
I've always liked squirell pot pie myself. "Homestyle" with biscquits on top.
I always clean my squirells and parboil them before using in recipes. I normally wont de-bone them until after I have parboiled them. Depends on what recipe I plan to use the meat in. BBQed and fried is good too, but homestyle pot pie is my favorite.