I like squirrel hunting more than eating them so dont shoot a lot typically. But my boys have put it on them so hard i have not cleaned one i have shot yet this year.

The best way i found to cook them is slow in the crock pot with garlic salt sprinkled on top with noting else added . no water nothing. Typically about 5 squirrel take arounf 5 hours and they fall off the bone. But I would love to try something different so I can attempt to knock a few down myself. I say attempt becus my hearing is bad and well makes it tougher to locate them.

Anway how do you like to cook them?

I like squirrel that's breaded and fried brown in a pan, that is then cooked long and low in a crockpot, with a brown gravy made from the pan drippings. My friend Marvin's wife, Wanda, makes the best squirrel I've ever eaten. They are in their mid eighties. If I didn't have access to it through them, I would buy it in a restaurant, if a restaurant offered it.

Keith

I use a slow cooker, but when I am fortunate I do the squirrels with my grouse and a cottontail if available. I do the minced garlic, onion, carrot and potatoes with this mix along with worchester sauce.

Bryce

Fry the young tender ones, gumbo for the rest

Ilike to pressure can them in quart jars, then they are all tender, some i will take out and roll in flour and seasoning and brown, man they are good sometimes I will debone and put in brown gravy mix and pour over rice, wife likes it over noodle

Replace the chicken in chicken and dumplings with squirrel.

I pressure cook them. Twenty minutes at 10 psi and the meat is falling off the bone. I then brown and serve over brown rice with mushroom gravy.

My daughter and I can't shoot enough squirrels to keep up with the family demand for that recipe. .

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Moosetrot

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The Hmong just build a fire and burn off the hair and eat around the guts.

All but the Hmong recipe sounds delicious.

Replace the chicken and make a squirrel pot pie

Breaded in flour , salt and pepper, browned then pressure cooked until they are consistent to a piece of chicken

I was invited to diner by one of my friends. While sitting around having a beer or two I could smell dinner cooking. I said that sure smells good. His wife told me to come take a look at what we were having for dinner. It was a pot full of squirrels with the heads still attached. Well, that didn't bother me much. But when they were served and we started eating they broke open the skulls and ate the brains. Well being a Marine I couldn't back down, and I pitched right in. They were really good, but I never ate any kind of brains after that.
Anyone else eat squirrel brains?

I like to prepare my squirrels fresh berries with a walnut chutney. They just can't get enough of it.

You can get Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from eating squirrel brains. I hear about people dying from it every few years or so. One year six people died from it in Kentucky. A guy from New York died from it around 7 years ago. It can cause serious damage, without killing you, too.

Keith

Drove by a decent size public area here in NE Iowa and counted 15 different vehicles ( mostly toyota) all Minnesota plates. 2- 5 people each and all among. Squirrels are going extinct this weekend.

…. Glad we don’t have them here …. Mescins don’t care too much for squirrels from what I’ve seen

This is exactly the way it is in SW Wisconsin (Grant/Crawford counties) on public ground. They come out of Madison and Milwaukee and hunt from dawn to dark every Saturday and Sunday. They got the public ground in between here and there hunted out would be a fair assumption. Years ago I was bow hunting public ground and ran into one and it looked like he had well over the daily bag limit of 5 in his game vest. I don't know how you could hunt all day in the woods and not shoot 5 squirrels in 8 to 10 hours plus of hunting unless they were about extinct due to the pressure they put on them. You're spot on with the Toyota comment as well, throw a Nissan or Honda in if they don't have a Toyota.

I throw 2 or 3 in a pot and boil them a couple hours pull them out take out the bones, throw the meat back in the broth add some rice a can of black beans a couple chopped up green peppers half a jalapeno a touch of cayenne salt and pepper boil till the rice is done and everything starts to thicken. Yummy.

Depends on the squirrel.
I skin and bag as I shoot them, Hate skinning a cold one!
But some are par boiled, others are pan fried to give a seal, then both are baked after breaded.
Then eat as is or dip in sauce of you choice.
Eaten many just cooked over an open fire on a green branch.

Quarter them up. Put in an egg wash then roll in seasoned flour, heavy on the black pepper. Fry them golden brown, then put on a sheet pan in the oven on 350 for about 25-30 min to finish. Good and tender. Can go the extra step and make a gravy out of the fry pan drippings. Squirrel gravy has the best flavor

I’ll skin ours and soak in salted water for 3-4 days before cooking. I think this helps tenderize them.

pressure cook till tender, (about 45-50 minutes), dredge in flour and fry, make gravy inn the skillet, serve with mashed taters.

If ya kill enough, keep the young of the year separate from the older squirrels. It takes a bit of experience to know where that line is between tough ones and tender ones. Body size, genital size, bone brittleness, color of the meat, are all indicators of which pot they go in.
Ppl
Young of the year-Roll in flour and pan fry. I prefer in bacon grease, but any cooking oil is fine.
Old squirrels- Roll in flour and pan fry. Put them in a pressure cooker (instapot) until tender to a fork, NOT falling off the bone. Remove and brown again in the skillet.
I like my squirrel on the bone.
We eat them one day a week year round. Around 300 a year. I never tire of them. Absolutely my favorite wild game.

Been hunting 3 or 4 mornings a week since they started on the hickory’s. I can knock out a limit in a couple hours or less. Some mornings it takes less than hour if you maneuver into the right tree.

… using a scope for squirrel Clay

… ought to be ashamed of yourself lol

Do they even buy aa license!

lol! There was a time I agreed with you!
I shot open sights until my eyes went to crap.
Used to make fun of guys using scopes.
Not anymore!!

…. Tell uncle Swamp to get back in here lol

I’m betting he’s got deer on the mind…………..

… no reason to be antisocial

… if he’d listen to me he wouldn’t even need to scout but one day before season lol

love scurl hunting. cant beat frying low n slow an smother with gravy

One morning hunt Stop. had these skinned before the rest to make our daily limit were killed at the next stop. So no full limit picture.

What’s that called lugnut

looks like some cream of mushroom crockpot scurl over rice

Dad gum Flint, you got the fox squirrel out yonder.
We used to have a lot more. There’s still plenty, but the greys outnumber them a bunch.

honestly I prefer the lil greys. seem to be more tender than reds.

BBQ

Squirrel salad , easy to make and easy to eat.

It’s this, doesn’t really have a name other than maybe “that squirrel dish.”

…. lol

…. I wouldn’t put it past yall

…. Looks edible though

My little squirrel killer , he’s 5

Squirrel dumplings.

Mama made the best.

Beav, Mama loved the brains, we got in trouble if we head shot them.