October 6, 2009

How to eat fried squirrel.

First of all, you must have strong teeth. Very strong teeth. At least if I'm the one cooking it.

Sunday afternoon, I took the boys & Bitsy to Uncle E's on the 4 wheeler so the boys could play with J & Bitsy could scrap book with Beffie & Ray-ray. Bitsy is beginning a lovely collection of scrapbooked pages on her bedroom wall. The girls set her up with all their left overs & help her with her art work. She's very proud of it all.

By the time she was finished & we headed home, Husband & BabyGirl were no where to be found. I had the ATV and both vehicles were still in the drive, so I knew they hadn't gone far. I figured they were at Big BIL's playing with the kids, but I figured wrong. They were squirrel hunting.

They came home empty handed; Husband said it was like walking through the woods with a freight train. The boys were broken hearted because they didn't get to go, so Husband promised to take them at a later date. I voted for one kid at a time...and won (vote is too mild a word in reality).

Yesterday Husband took B.B. out & they came home successful. I was informed that I was to cook the squirrel for dinner last night, and Husband & B.B. took it out to skin & clean it. At one point my son was running around the yard with squirrel feet in his hands.

Having no clue what to do with it, I dredged the furry little thing in flour & fried it up. I think in my desire to avoid food poisoning, I over cooked Rocky. It was tougher than shoe leather. Somehow the boys prevailed & ate half the squirrel between them. BabyGirl & I were unimpressed & Bitsy gnawed on bones excitedly jabbering about her squirrel & Daddy's gun.

So to all you fuzzy little blog reading cuties (of which I'm sure I have a huge following), avoid our house like the plague, or you too will be fried up & served to salivating FarmHands.

7 comments:

Sarah @ Ordinary Days said...

I just don't know what to say.....

areyoukiddingme said...

I'm all for getting rid of squirrels, but I don't see myself eating them...

Penny said...

we used to eat squirrls all the time when I was young. Mom would brown them and then put in the oven with BBQ sauce on low temp and cook for a couple hours...they were wonderful!!! melt in your mouth!!! so you might try that next time or even brown them and put into crock pot on low...brings back great memories of my Dad...thanks!1

Gail said...

And another recipe, for the tough ones. Preboil it til tender then dredge in flour and fry. OR boil it off the bones and make squirrel and dumplings...delicious.

Staci said...

My hubby is a duck hunter. The first duck season that we were married I was a good sport and told him I'd cook the things as long as all I had to see was the cleaned meat. Figured they'd be good if I crock-potted them in teriyaki sauce and served them with rice. They turned out Teri-yucky! I'll never eat duck again.

Kork said...

snigger...all I can see in my head right now is this poor, shriveled up crunchy thing, and all I can think of is Les Stroud the Survivorman from Discovery and how he keeps saying you have to make sure you cook it completely...

Hee hee...of course, I find myself wishing BB was a hunter so we could get some venison and elk...mmmmmmmm...

Jill of All Trades said...

Actually your are invoking a lot of childhood memories here. Have had a lot of fried squirrel and gravy in my lifetime and it is good, very good.