I just learned something new from my local newspaper. Connecticut has three squirrel hunting seasons, and in fact, squirrel is more popular than one might have thought.
“Right now, I have five squirrels in the Crock-Pot at home, cooking,” Enie, 59, said prior to the festivities. “I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone try it who didn’t like it.”
His mother taught him how to cook with squirrel. Two of his favorite dishes are squirrel jambalaya and squirrel potpie.
So it sounds like squirrel meat requires some extended cooking to make it tender?
“It’s a dark meat,” Enie explained. “When it’s prepared right, it’s pretty tender. It tastes sweet, because they mainly eat nuts. Two squirrels would be enough for a meal for somebody. Three will feed my wife and I.”
There was also a comment in the article about somebody adding it to their pasta sauce.
Will we see more news like this as the economy lags and food prices rise? I wonder if squirrel would make a good pizza topping. If anybody has a recipe to share, add it to the comments on this post.
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Squirrels don’t seem to have any issue eating pizza…
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-top-10-pictures-of-squirrels-eating-pizza-of-a
Well, then turnabout is fair play. I must eat squirrel pizza.
More on squirrel eating!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/22/why-eat-squirrel-really/
Georgia Pellegrini says: “after having feasted on a grove of pecans or acorns, their meat is nutty and sweet, buttery and tender. And so a fat, nut-fed squirrel is not only better tasting than any meat in the woods, it can be even better tasting, and much more economical than that Spanish pig that sells for one hundred seventy dollars per pound.“