Posted By: cmc
Squirrel - 11/27/12 04:01 AM
I forgot how good it was. Me and the boy got a few last week in Michigan and here's what I did. I don't have recipes or write things down so this is close, adjust to your taste.
Cut two whole squirrels in half so they fit in my Dutch oven.
Enough bacon grease in Dutch oven to fry all pieces
I season pretty heavy with garlic salt, pepper, and natures seasoning
When grease is hot put pieces in big zip lock with flour and get em coated good
Fry all pieces one or two at a time not crowding pan until close to done, your mostly getting the flour good and brown
Once they are all cook deglaze oven with a cup of chicken broth
Add all pieces back in oven and a little water to almost cover all pieces
Put lid on and place Dutch in a 250 degree oven for a couple hours
Pull out and add some cut up potatoes and onion and garlic
Back in for another hour or so
When the broth gets thick from the flour and the potatoes are done the meat will pull off bone, it will be potatoes, gravy, squirrel all in one pot
Posted By: PMK
Re: Squirrel - 11/27/12 05:16 PM
sounds good! my mother used to do similar but instead of the potatoes, she made drop dumplings (like drop bisquits) and put in where you put in the potatoes. Squirrel dumplings, yummy!
Posted By: Navasot
Re: Squirrel - 11/27/12 05:17 PM
Hard to beat good ole tree rats! i got a yr round season here so keep pretty full on them lol
Posted By: vanguard
Re: Squirrel - 12/03/12 05:54 PM
i think they taste better than cottontail
Posted By: pigplinker
Re: Squirrel - 12/09/12 10:34 PM
I'll take billybob's serving.
Posted By: Palehorse
Re: Squirrel - 12/10/12 03:50 AM
We had squirrel tonight! Good, authentic southern cuisine!
Posted By: RobertY
Re: Squirrel - 12/10/12 11:03 PM
Hard to beat good ole tree rats!
No sir...I can think of lots of things that beat "tree rats"
Posted By: pafree
Re: Squirrel - 12/11/12 04:15 AM
do you do any brine soak before cooking like the rabbits? we got two tonight.
Posted By: jdw
Re: Squirrel - 12/17/12 01:02 AM
Probably some of these guys that dont like squirell will tell you they love duck meat. I wil eat squirell anyday of the week instead of duck. I dont like my food to taste like liver.
Have not tried this yet, waiting on a little cooler weather but it looked good on Steven Rinella's show Meat Eater.
http://themeateater.com/2012/squirrel-or-rabbit-hasenpfeffer/
Posted By: redchevy
Re: Squirrel - 12/17/12 08:08 PM
no need to brine if your going to cook it as the OP says, it wont dry out.
I think im gonna have to get me a cotton tail while at the ranch next time and bust out the dutch and start a camp fire... we dont have any squirels down there.
Posted By: cmc
Re: Squirrel - 12/18/12 01:14 PM
Two more, thought I would put this up to motivate you guys to go get some.
Posted By: Texpolo1106
Re: Squirrel - 12/18/12 10:10 PM
Probably some of these guys that dont like squirell will tell you they love duck meat. I wil eat squirell anyday of the week instead of duck. I dont like my food to taste like liver.
Luckily, I'm not picky. Ill take both.
Posted By: Cool Mo D
Re: Squirrel - 12/21/12 10:03 PM
Luv me some limb chicken!!
Posted By: chalet
Re: Squirrel - 12/23/12 12:07 AM
Not tree rats, but tree treats! Love a good pot of critter stew.
Posted By: killemall
Re: Squirrel - 12/24/12 07:50 PM
fried with skillet gravy, fried potatoes, and biscuits. Throw in a slice of onion and a jalapeno. This is the proper method for the eating of tree rat.
Posted By: onestar
Re: Squirrel - 12/25/12 08:12 PM
Probably some of these guys that dont like squirell will tell you they love duck meat. I wil eat squirell anyday of the week instead of duck. I dont like my food to taste like liver.
I agree. Never have had duck that I would call really good, but squirrel I can get excited about.
Posted By: KYBLUEFAN
Re: Squirrel - 12/28/12 05:23 AM
MMMMM. Need to try this. Boy got a .22 from santa so I'll need this recipe soon.
Squirrel and dumplings. Yummy
Posted By: cmc
Re: Squirrel - 01/07/13 12:15 PM
Made this again and had some left so I pulled the meat off the bone added some of the gravy in a pan with the meat, poured a bag of mixed vegetables in cooked it till if was all heated evenly, put it in a pie crust with another on top and baked till done. Squirrel pot pie and it was good.
Posted By: rick13
Re: Squirrel - 02/02/13 11:05 PM
Love it just plain old fried with gravy.
Posted By: B Razorback
Re: Squirrel - 02/08/13 01:25 AM
I actually shot some with friends the other day and we just grilled them! Marinated with worchester and just some steak rub for about a day! Tasted great. A little hard to eat but it was really good! Only lasted about 5 minutes before it was gone!