Posted on 08/26/2023 3:24:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Same here. Same place granny’s cast iron pan is right now.
What’s wrong with squirrel? Had it growing up along with rattlesnake, frog legs, gator, goat, venison, reindeer and once armadillo (no pearl clutching, please), all the organ meats including brains, heart, tongue, sweetbreads, mountain oysters, sautéed up a bunch of minnow eggs a few times and forgotten a few other unusual meats but no horse that I know of. Meat is meat.
Well, those food snobs are missing out on some good eating.
The late Anthony Bourdain came to our area and did a show where he learned how to make squirrel pot pie.
He found it pretty tasty.
My Grandma always fried them for breakfast with eggs.
My Mom usually cooked them in the pressure cooker and it produced very tender meat with gravy.
One time the pressure cooker blew its lid, which made a dent in the ceiling and it was years before we were able to get the squirrel gravy stains off of the plaster ceiling.
“One squirrel is hardly enough for one person.”
That’s true.
When I was eating them regularly, I would pressure cook 5 of them at a time. After 35 minutes of the regulator rocking, I was able to remove the meat from the bones - I mean all of the meat from all of the bones - cheek meat, backstraps, neck meat, everything including rib meat. It just falls off. 5 squirrels would net me about 2.5 cups of meat which I could shred or grind or just mix up with bbq sauce or whatever. Always enough for a meal for three and have leftovers.
Squirrel stew is underrated, especially here in the 1st world.
Enjoying a steaming bowl of borscht are you?
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Your granny slept with soldiers for rubles.
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At least I have a Mrs.
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