Had six or eight in the freezer and #2 son is home from college so simmered them in the crock pot, picked all the meat off the bones and made a pot of white chili. Not sure what all he put in it, but it turned out pretty good.
The past few years, I haven't squirrel hunted until after deer season, so it's time now to get back out. I haven't been seeing nearly as many as most years, not sure why.
Your post reminded me of my first and only attempt to cook squirrel , a older lady that I took squirrels to told me how to cook them , ' but I didn't quite get it ' she said you have got to pre boil them before you cook them , so I got me a mess together and boiled them it didn't work out very well I ended up with a kettle of bones and brown juice . Lord only knows how I made it through my childhood boy was I thick headed . Enjoy you chilli
I like squirrel stew. Cut the squirrel up, flour and brown it. Add water or chicken broth and simmer until the meat is falling off the bones. When about half done add veggies of choice. When browning I also add onion and garlic(at the end so it doesn't burn). Carrot and potato are my go to veggies. Pan of biscuits and eat!
I crock pot the squirrels until the meat falls off the bone.
Brown in a skillet and add BBQ sauce.
Serve on toasted burger buns.
BBQed squirrel sandwiches...dale
Squirrel broth/soup was a home remedy for sick folks around here when I was young. Mama made squirrel and dumplings, or fried them.
White Chili....that just sounds wrong ...I don't even want to know what white chili is .
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Kinda like squirrel gumbo, only different.
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Squirrel pot pie around my neck of the woods. I know a lot of people who eat it i give them all my squirrels. The bbq sounds good!
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A lot of people make chili with chicken. One of these days, gonna try it with fish. One of the beauties of chili, no hard and fast rules to it.
i like squirrels and gravy over rice
OK.... I gotta get the 22 out this weekend. This thread is making me hungry!
I've fixed chili with ground turkey and it's good. Whats throwing me is white chili.....
How do you make chili that's white ?
Someone post a recipe for this white Chili... I'm clueless
I know what Green Chili Stew is !
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I have not had squirrel in 45+ years. I do like the idea of squirrel chili. Sounds real good.
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Earl the Squirrel didn't show up for breakfast this morning. Which one of you guys.........?
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16...y-white-chili/
This is probably pretty close to what the boy put in it, though he added some black beans and some other stuff.
Google white chili, you'll come up with a lot of stuff.
Up at the old camp, we had plenty of fox squirrels, big and fat. Someone would go out and take about 4 and we would cut them up, fry them, make a roux and then a gravy and stew them for about 2-3 hours. Name of it is fricassee. Fall off the bone tender. Serve over potatoes or rice with some greens, biscuits or cornbread. Mmmm-good.
One of my father's favorite statements: "If I say a chicken dips snuff, look under his wing for the snuffbox" How I was raised, who I am.
Squirrel Pot Pie for me too growing up in Pa....but the chili idea really sounds good. I'll have to give that a try.
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ive ate it twice and you couldn't pay me to eat it again.
To each his own. I enjoyed it as did my two sons. Can't get the wife to touch squirrel.
Like a lot of stews and chilis, this was better to me as leftovers after it had sat in the fridge over night. Seems the heat from the chili peppers he put in it came out better.
I used to bowfish every day for about seven months a year and stacked up a lot of carp, many of which I ate in various ways. Smoked it is great and I used to add smoked carp to chowders, good stuff. It's meaty, oily fish, but if you cut off the mudline, ones from a big clear lake can taste pretty good. I eat fish tacos at a place we eat sometimes, was just thinking that might be a neat variation on chili at some point too.
Baked carp isn't bad... scale it, gut it, cut head off. Bake on a rack so grease can drain. Peel back the skin and munch on crackers.
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