Eating Squirrels and Bugs--?

[LindsayB]

Yep, they're just like the dark meat on a chicken

 

[berkeleysprings]

nothing berrer than a ssquirrels cooked on a stick over a open fire , i am mostly a city boy but bow hunted black bear deer and turkey but every time i hit a squirrel
i loose a arrow and the tree rat

 

[Moabite]

A.T. Hagan :

Seeing as how this is a poultry board and all I can tell you that many species of bugs are good to eat.

I process mine through a hen first.

They're delicious that way.

 

[kla37]

A.T. Hagan :

Seeing as how this is a poultry board and all I can tell you that many species of bugs are good to eat.

I process mine through a hen first.

They're delicious that way.

Made me laugh! I prefer my bugs processed in this fashion as well!​

 

[Lyddz]

Thanks for the link and all the squirrelish ideas!! Now I really want [somebody else] to hunt a few squirrels and make one of the dishes!
And...

A.T. Hagan :

Seeing as how this is a poultry board and all I can tell you that many species of bugs are good to eat.

I process mine through a hen first.

They're delicious that way.

I sooo should have seen that coming!!

 

[gryeyes]

Where the heck in Sacramento, California am I gonna find squirrel dressed for cooking!

 

[turney31]

DH loves squirrel. We have a bunch in the freezer.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I was recently over at my grandpa's house when he was starting a bonfire with a old book.

Hi! Sacrilege.
Books are not fire-starting material --- yikes.
Squirrel are tasty. My Dad took me / taught me to squirrel and rabbit hunt when I was a toddler. It was more learning to sit and listen than about killing things. I sat in his lap and he let me pull the trigger to bag a squirrel. My Dad was not a hunter at all, but he enjoyed spending time in the woods and thought it was important to pass that on to me. He hated killing things, but knew it was always going to a part of my growing up.
I went to the slaughter-house when our pigs/cows were going to slaughter and followed them to my Uncle Hokes butcher shop where they were wrapped and packed.

All that to say, I always knew where 'food' came from.

Lisa​

 

[dewey]

Quote:
Check with your hunting friends that go where the squirrels are in fall/winter hunting season...maybe they'd spare ya a couple from their freezer.

 

[desertdarlene]

I know someone on BYC had a recipe for mealworm cookies. I think you can Google it.