I see you guys do a lot of squirrel hunting due to being pests. do you eat them?

[StevieRay]

We love having squirrel for dinner... do you have any great recipes to make squirrel? Here is a squirrel soup I made...https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMNiLVSKnYcoMGrTr3G9rVfmkjlQUJvZEAeUrlG

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM-_LXIGWcyPqe2tC9LyO5QEApd0p9C4XoYcjMh

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNl-2_b-b3OL4hZOgS8ref07hPqUaiGPq-jXS_t

 

[bowwild]

I've been eating squirrels (killed by Dad in those days) for most of my life. My favorite way is to fry and then pressure cook. That's how Mom made them. We don't have a pressure cooker or know how to use one. So, I either dip in flour and fry or put them in a crock pot with a can of Cambell's Cream of Mushroom soup and can of water. Great! I wouldn't kill a squirrel or rabbit I wasn't planning to eat.

 

[Alan]

Well, don't come to New Mexico, and expect to eat the squirrels down here! Unless of course, you want to get sick from flea bits or worse!

 

[StevieRay]

That stinks Alan. They are really good tasting. Bowwild I agree I want to eat what I kill. Check out my links to my photos. They are of a soup I made from squirrel and yes I browned the squirrel then I cooked it in our pressure cooker. Too funny!!

 

[Pestassassin]

Had squirrel and mashed potatoes for dinner tonight... I mix up a quarter cup each of white wine worcestershire sauce, Frank's Red hot, and jalapeno juice, add a tsp of ground white pepper. It may marinate for a day... It may marinate for a week. Being a regional truck driver, that all depends on how often I get home during the week. When I'm ready to cook, I season the meat with some blackened seafood/chicken seasoning, sear on both sides for maybe 30 seconds each, place on tinfoil and pour some of the leftover marinade on and around the squirrel, wrap it all up and bake at 275 for about 40 minutes....

Yummy!



This pic was taken after searing, but before adding the leftover marinade...

 

[Guest]

Got a crock pot full of pinto beans and squirrels in the fridge right now. I ate two big bowls for supper. Real simple recipe, soak beans over night, cook for 4 hours, season to taste add squirrel parts and maybe an onion and a potato diced. Cook over night on low. Yum.

 

[ajshoots]

Love squirrel!! My old school recipe is to brown in a pan then crock pot with a homemade white gravy. My son loves it panned fried. I also enjoy cooking it down, deboned and made into a stew or soup.

 

[Guest]

I like to quarter them, & boil till almost tender with onions, celery & carrots. Then cool. Dip in egg wash & seasoned flour. Then fry till done & crisp on the outside. Strain veggies from broth & make gravy with the broth. Add butter& seasonings to veggies & make a pan of hot biscuits.

 

[ebigham1]

Why yes we eat them. I just had some the other day. I want to try coon. My neighbor says it is good also.

 

[Guest]

I was told that raccoon has to be soaked a few times, successively. I forget how many times. Down home in WV, they like it in a bbq pit. I have yet to try it, let alone that way. We'll see when Hatsan comes in & I start trolling farmers for pest control.

 

[Smaug]

I eat them. 

Searing, then roasting in the oven in marinade still yields tough meat for me.

Crock Pot, making sure the meat is submerged in cooking liquid, or pressure cooker is the only way to go.

bowwild: Get yourself a pressure cooker. They're affordable enough, ($30?) and besides having a pressure cooker, you also have an excellent pot for cooking pasta and a small stock pot. Presto even offers a straining lid for theirs.

 

[ebigham1]

I have not looked up any recipes yet. But thanks for the advise.

 

[Tn_airgunner]

We've cooked raccoon in the crock pot and we was amazed at how good it was. Just make sure to take out the glans

 

[zebra]

I don't eat the squirrels I kill in an urban setting because I don't know what they have been eating and, I wasn't really brought up eating squirrel so it isn't something I crave. 

The squirrels here do two things that mean they have to go though. One, they dig up my lawn - a mortal sin. I would shoot my wife if she dug up my lawn. Second is that they shake the acorns out of the tree with branches that go over my car. Every time my car hood get thumped with an acorn from 40 feet up, I reach for my air gun. 

Squirrels are like a plague in my area. Revolting rats destroying property wherever I look. I would be 500lb if I tried to eat all of them...

 

[Guest]

Squirrel meat is lean. No fat to speak of, so it's healthy, over & above the obvious fact of no drugs either. I love'em.