#SQUIRREL RECIPES HOW TO#

Even if youвЂ™re not hunting, small squirrel traps can be remarkably effective for the squirrels in your attic, or you can go old school and use a figure 4 deadfall trap.ДЇor newbies, IвЂ™d highly recommend this super quiet air gun thatвЂ™s incredibly inexpensive (though check your local restrictions, some places class it as a firearm, while others donвЂ™t). Squirrel is part of a robust small game hunting tradition in the US, and a great way to introduce kids to hunting. We eat what we hunt, which means itвЂ™s time to research squirrel recipes! TheyвЂ™ve destroyed crops, woken us from a sound sleep with their calls and most recently torn into the walls of the house.Д®nough is enough, time to work on squirrel population control. This past year their population exploded, likely due to the untimely demise of our young hunting cat. TheyвЂ™re out there trying to make a living just like anyone.

#SQUIRREL RECIPES HOW TO#

If youвЂ™re curious about how to cook it, read on my friendsвЂ¦ДЇor the most part, I love watching squirrels forage on our land. Still, thereвЂ™s nothing wrong with supplementing your pantry with a bit of tasty squirrel meat. IвЂ™d suggest planning ahead and checking out these survival food kits instead. While IвЂ™m glad everyoneвЂ™s excited about hunting if youвЂ™re really thinking squirrel meat is going to keep you fed after SHTF that may be a pipe dream. Since this crisis began, this post has seen nearly 100,000 hits. That is provided you have a good squirrel recipe handy. Give it a try! And of course if you donвЂ™t have squirrel in your midst, other proteins will work well.Squirrel, like many other types of small game, makes good eating. It is wonderful and is a dish that was often made by my great grandmother and other great grandmothers across the land.

YouвЂ™ll cook this for another hour until it is all tender and stew-like. Once you saute them for a few minutes, youвЂ™ll add 2 cups of the squirrel cooking liquid from the other pot, then the squirrel and Worcestershire sauce. In a separate pot, youвЂ™ll render the bacon, add the onion and garlic cloves, deglaze with the beer, and then add the remaining ingredients.

Those are the impurities, and the lemon, salt, and rosemary are particularly excellent at extracting them. As it simmers for an hour, skim off the foam that rises to the surface.

You will first par boil the squirrel in water with a nice dose of sea salt, lemon halves, rosemary, bay leaf and cayenne. Here is what youвЂ™ll need: squirrel, garlic cloves, bacon, corn kernels, chick peas, Worcestershire sauce, lemon, tomatoes, bay leaf, okra, potatoes, beer (not pictured), cayenne (not pictured), sea salt (not pictured), and rosemary (not pictured). And of course you can be flexible and include your favorite ingredients! But the directions are detailed in the recipe. Since I was in girl hunter mode and not photographer mode, I didnвЂ™t take a lot of step-by-step photos as I normally do. This was an old squirrel, which I cooked in Arkansas a little while ago. Acorns from the white oak, the chestnut oak, the swamp white oak, and the Garry oak are all ideal. They are sometimes bitter because of their tannins, but this can be improved by grinding them and running them under cold water. Native Americans used to eat acorns, usually by grinding them and then boiling them. Sometimes, for flavor and for whimsy, I like to add acorns to this recipe. When in doubt, it is safest to braise or stew a squirrel. Young squirrel is good simply quartered and fried.

Squirrel recipes