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What is the best way to cook squirrel?
Have you been watching too many Doomsday Prepper episodes? Or did you decide that the best
way to get rid of the tree rats is to eat them?
There are a lot of reasons a guy might want to cook squirrel.
Beef finally got too expensive. You’re a lousy hunter, and you promised to cook up
at least something you caught and that was all you got.
My dog keeps catching them. I might as well eat them.
There are pioneer recipes for stewing them and cooking them like any other stew meat,
especially with potatoes, corn and lots of spices. You can fry them with cooking oil
or Crisco.
I think you can eat anything fried in Crisco. They even had fried ice cream and pickles
at the Texas State Fair.
You can grill a squirrel like any other meat, assuming you’ve got a grill. Cut it up into
four pieces and treat like chicken.
Everything tastes like chicken.
I said grill like chicken, not tastes like chicken. You’ll want to add a lot of salt
and pepper to it, though.
Then douse with BBQ sauce.
That, for you, would be just like chicken.
I’ve never heard of fried squirrel. Though it can’t be worse than some people’s home
made fried chicken.
If you’re going to fry it, you do have to simmer it on a sauce pan first.
Darn. I thought I could put it in the turkey fryer after a hunt.
Be careful or people will think you’re serving a rat that fell in.
They do call squirrels tree rats.
Just stew it. There are people who will eat anything in stew, especially served over rice.
Really? What if they ask what it is?
You could say it is exotic. Let them think it is buffalo or guinea pig, when it’s actually
something more mundane.
Remind me not to ask you what you served when we came over for dinner last week.