Squirrel Stew
Ingredients:
1 squirrel, quartered
1 cup diced onion
2 large tomatoes (from your garden) or 1 can of tomatoes
Assorted fresh ,or canned veggies
Preparation:
Sprinkle seasoned salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper (optional) liberally on the meat. Pour some cooking oil into a large pot (dutch oven). Sauté the meat with the onions until well browned. Drain the excess oil, add about 2 cups water, and bring to a boil. Cut up the tomatoes and add. If you use canned tomatoes add them now. Turn down the heat, and let slow cook for at least an hour. Important: older squirrels may require cooking longer than an hour. Check periodically for tenderness. If you don’t you will have a hard time chewing the meat. After the meat is tender, add the veggies, carrots, potatoes, banana pepper, what ever you like. Cook until the veggies are done. An option you can use is, cook up your favorite pasta and serve over the pasta. (eliminate the potatoes). That’s it, nice and simple ~ Good eating: John
I thought the 3rd Amendment prohibited the quartering of squirrels.
The Czechs in Minnesota have a recipe for a sour-cream potato soup with squirrel meat. I didn’t have squirrel, but pheasant worked really well. Very tasty stuff.
A squirrel is a rat with a fuzzy tail.
The last time I had Squirrel stew there was so much hair floating in the pot you could have made a felt hat out of it. take a bite floss with hair.Take a bite floss with hair..
I didn’t shoot the squirrels, someone else did. Got lots of squirrels around here. the dog is chewing on one now. Lots of deer here also I saw 7 this morning behind the house.
Times are getting tough.While driving to a service call a few weeks ago I saw a dead squirrel laying in the road.An oncoming pick-up truck stops,the guy gets out and tosses the squirrel in the bed of the truck.Roadkill stew?
Sour Dough Bread.
Quick Starter, you only do this once.
2 1/2 cups bread flour, 10 bucks for 25 pounds at Sam's Club.
2 cups warm water.
1/3 cup white vinegar. Bacteria do best at low pH's
4 TBS sugar.
1 packet yeast.
One 3.5 pound Folgers Coffee can.
Dump all the above in the can, mix and let sit for a couple of days.
Bread.
Add two cups of flour to your starter, mix and wait for it to foam and bubble.
Take 2 cups of starter, Barm, and 2TBS of margarine, butter, oil, or bacon grease. two to four tbs of sugar. 1 tsp of salt and mix with 2.5 cups of flour. p>Mix and knead for 15 minutes, dough should be tacky not sticky, add water or flour to correct.
Let rest for 30 Minuit's.
Let it rise until doubled, a couple of hours.
Degas genitally, and divide into two greased loaf pans.
Let rise until doubled, a couple of hours.
Bake in 350 degree oven for an hour or so, internal temps 195 thru 205 degrees, and the bottom sounds hollow.
Cool for 30 minute's. Put starter in fridge for next time. You have to feed the starter abouts once a week 1 cup of flour and one cup of water if you don't use it, keep the bugs alive.