On the farm one of my duties was to shoot squirrels that were squatting in the wooden granaries I shot7 every week. I only et the hind quarters. 🤠 Oh yeah, I grilled the meat with no garnishes. The dog et the rest of the rodent. I kept the tails as trophies. My wired hair terrier pouch was a go bonkers squirrel hound. So this brought back memories. Well done tasteful video mister.
Bushy-tailed tree rats with cat heads and gravy, or a pot of squirrel dumplings -- that's the kind of stuff I was raised on. My mom and dad loved to have a few ramps cut up in their fried taters.
"Tree Rat Taters" sounds like a great name for a swing band! Anyway glad to see you still doing your thing and teaching us all skills we should all learn!
If you put the squirrel in a pressure cooker at 15 lb of pressure for 12 min before you brown it in the skillet it will be falling off of the bone and super tender then just brown it in the skillet and make your gravy. Can not beat a good mess of squirrels and gravy. lol
It’s always nice to see someone cooking, and actually enjoying their harvest. Our squirrel season isn’t “in” yet in South Carolina but videos like these sure get me excited for when it does!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for all that you do. Your videos and your information are top notch. Between yours and corporal's corner, I have enjoyed watching RU-vid the way I never have before. I am so grateful for your school and for the group of teachers you have gathered. Your willingness to share such valuable information cannot be under appreciated. Most of all I thank you for your service to this country.
Love me some squirrel. Dumplings, stew, fried, squirrel pot pie ( made just like the chicken version) squirrel and cornbread with gravy, etc. etc. Squirrel and greens is good if you only have one ham hock or neck bone
When I was a child , dad just got out of the hospital, so we'd not been to town to get a stock of groceries, I had a lot of squirrel id killed , plenty of season , flower , but no lard or bacon Grease, so I found 2 pounds of butter , baked those squirrel in butter very slowly, while I cooked potatoes and onions in butter too , made drop biscuits in butter . Was the best id eat in a long time . Next day I drove my 10 year old ass to town and parked in the back ally , got groceries that we needed . Back then we got 100lbs of spuds 25 pounds of red beans 2 slabs of bacon , 50 pounds onions , flower in 50lbs sacks . Then go to the feed store , most that was 100lbs sacks . Kids today haven't got any responsibilities. At 10 , I was hauling hay by myself putting it in the barn . Killing our hogs , salt and smoke curing it , killing wild meat , skinning it while it was warm , quartering it up in clean paper feed sacks , put in a duffel bag to carry . Got a after school and summer job at 13 . Ruined me lol .
Hmm, I wonder if you had two or three squirrels how they would cook up smoked low and slow, 200-225, on that komodo style grill to make pulled squirrel. Might make them a bit less stringy and tough if it worked out right.
Spuds and cut up onions in another skillet, smother cook , pour that gravy over fried spuds , fried squirrel, cathead biscuits, coffee great breakfast, muskidine jelly. Oh yeah
that kind of look like red squirrel or fox squirrel or I think there's other names for them but it the meat was nice and pink not the dark type of meat that's on a gray squirrel and those things fry up the best and taste the best of any squirrel I've ever eaten and that recipe makes it look just that much gooder well yum yum yum that's all I can say. I've got a gray squirrel in the freezer right now but I prefer to use several gray squirrels to one red squirrel for fox squirrel. thanks for the video Dave I really enjoyed that and you made me hungry if that's what you were trying to do you succeeded. keep ye powder dry
Speaking of butchering I'd love to see a series on preparing all sorts of critters to eat. A lost art it is. I would pay for patreon for that series or buy a dvd if those still make sense
Take an older squirrel. Boil it till tender.Save the water.Continue like you did,except when you add liquid use the water you saved The best gravy ever.
Hello David . Your dinner looked good . I have never ate squirrel . That I know of . I know my Uncle Bud used to kill them . And you eat whatever was put on the table . Have a great evening .
Bro, if you’re gonna keep doing this cooking series - will you make some videos of good food for when you’re actually camping (like on a scout or something) where there’s not really access to say buttermilk and all this other gear? Like simple meals with minimal equipment? If you see this, thank you for all you’ve done for all of us (myself in particular) sharing everything you’ve already shared in your past survival/bushcraft videos, along with the time-period accurate tools/gear camping series’s! Love those! Hope to meet you one day and thank you proper. Take care, man.
Dave I love your channel, some of its educational, informative, the cooking videos are the best on RU-vid,there is something for everyone here,but they are all entertaining,love you cooking style,love all the precise measurement,you know about that much or ish,the meals look great that, and you can tell you and Zahn enjoy them all ,much love keep them coming
Tree rat, lol! We have a ton of chipmunk around here. Can these be treated the same? Seems weird to me to eat either, but if SHTF, you’d better believe my family and I are not going to starve to death.
Oh, just to have one more taste of Mothers fried squirrel, gravy, and biscuits. I use the same skillet, same kind of oil, same everything but it just doesn't taste the same. Damn...
Um, no. I’ll pass on this one. Not that I’m afraid of bush meat. I ate plenty of it when I lived in Borneo (porcupine, monitor lizard, sago worms, crickets, sea urchin, etc). I just don’t like the taste. I’ll eat it if I have to, but don’t prefer it. What I learned about bush meat back then (and what the locals did) is to highly season it, deep fry it, and use it as more of a protein garnish/flavoring for a rice and veggie dish. It’s not always something to savor, but to tolerate in order to get enough calories and protein.
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What kinds of things do you need to watch out for when eating fresh squirrel? I've always wanted to try a kill and cook on squirrel, but been a bit nervous about diseases and such.
Great video! Fits right into modern homesteading. Dumb question maybe. Haven't hunted small game in over 40 years but want to get back into it. Question is do you have to wait till after a frost regarding worms or was that an old wise tail?
