Does this bother anyone else

Missy, please send me a PM with squirrel! Rachael is hoping to get some.

 

Ahh yes, Squirrel. I have never ate one but I do have a story. When I was pregnant with my son I was going into the drs. office to be checked. I looked outside and my dog is stalking this squirrel on the fence. He grabs the squirrel and brings it to the back door and barks like you would not believe. My dh opens the door and Reinhold picks up this dead animal and gives it to my husband like "look what I did dad"

As I was leaving for the dr. appt my husband and dog are skinning and cooking up a squirrel. I thought I was going to be sick. My dad was laughing all the way to the appt. and I was almost vomiting.

I get into the appt to have them tell me that my son is not doing well and I have to deliver him soon. When I got home the house smelled sooo bad. My mom and mil tried to clean up the mess but they got sick to there stomaches and couldn't do it.

Oi. My first kid and my house stinks!

 

Well, believe me, I would MUCH RATHER NOT eat the squirrel. But if Rachael shoots them, I will. I'd much rather cook them in a stew or something where there'd be lots of other things to cover the taste......

 

Yuck!! Just think you are eating a RAT'S cousin.

 

Vicky, THANK YOU for that encouraging note, LOL! (Can't find a good "Mr. Yuck" face)

 

Jackie~
I remember once when my brother went hunting with our cousins for squirrels. Thank goodness, I was grown and gone and didn't need to get involved- but my aunt made squirrel pot pie. If you'd like, I can see if she or my mom have the recipe!
Yuck!I got tricked into eating rabbit once- and I was not happy about it.
(Though, they are right- it does resemble chicken.)

 

Jackie...I'll look in my book and pm you the recipe(s) in the a.m.!

 

I said I know how to make squirrel the best way possible....but I never said I eat it! I'll make the entire meal for my family and only eat the side dishes. I grew up HAVING to eat squirrel and I got sick of it and figure if I don't have to I won't.

Rabbit is much better than squirrel. It is quite a bit like chicken.

Jackie, if you don't have a pressure cooker, then at least slow cook squirrel. Anything to tenderize it as much as possible. Anything that can run straight up a tree has far tougher muscles than anyone would care to eat! :lol:

Possum....hmmmm....my gramma told a story once about her mom cooking a possum. She said that after roasting it all that was there was a pile of fatty blubber . She tossed it out the door immediately....and the dog wouldn't even touch it! Those things are more like rats than squirrels ever thought 'a bein'!

About deer hunting....my hubby goes every year with my dad and dh's best friend. No matter how many they get, the meat gets split between the three households (with the exeption that whoever kills it gets the coveted loin). Dh always gets several (between 2 bow and 2 shotgun)...my dad usually gets at least one...and well, dh's friend hasn't got one yet, but we still split is all. It usually gets us through the year. We ran out this year in August and it really put a hurt on our food budget :shock: .

 

I grew up in NYS with my father hunting and we ate what he killed. We also raised cattle for butchering, chickens and turkeys. Until I was 15 I didn't know you could buy meat in the grocery store. We had a garden and canned or froze all our vegetables.

My dh doesn't hunt but his brother does and we get deer meat. My bil is a deputy sheriff and has taught the boys about gun safety. He is taking my oldest hunting this year. If my ds likes it okay if not okay. I think that hunting is okay as long as you are going to use what you kill otherwise it is just cruel.

Tammy

 

I'm not against hunting for food, It's just beyond my own personal limit of what I can handle. Killing them and cleaning it is something I never learned to stomach. I can't even clean a fish and if it still has EYES on it, I'm not touching it. LOL

When I was in India the only way to buy chicken was live ones, I paid extra to have them kill it for me and I bribed my friends to fix it so it looked like it came from a grocery store for me.

My uncle hunted when I was growing up and I often ate at their house... I loved the deer meat, Rabbit tastes so much like chicken, it's hard to tell the diffrence for me. I refused to eat Frog no matter what. One night we had frog legs ONLY for dinner so I chose to go hungry. DO people eat bear??

 

Syele~
I think people do eat bear, but I've heard it's kinda tough.
(In other words, I've never eaten it, nor do I plan to!)
We have an overabundance of bear in PA of late~ my dad hit one on his way to work about 6 months ago~ did alot of damage to his car (which was new)~ now he had a close call with another one last week.

 

Well, I find the whole thing repulsive.
Meat that you find in a store is raised just for that and young kids aren't the ones slaughtering it.
Yeah, I guess you have to be there.....

 

I would hunt only for food. I would have to leave the cleaning to someone else.I know cooking dear meat with a slab of bacon takes some of the game taste out of it. I don't know what to do for greasy squirrel.I used to have an employee that was addicted to fishing and every year he would take off to go hunting. One day he came to work really upset. I asked his uncle what was wrong. His wife doesn't want him to go fishing. My reply was He is an Indian. They have been hunting and fishing for centuries. I doubt she will be able to change him. That pond is like his church.
Word got to him what I said. He came in and shook my husbands hand and said Oh you lucky man. Mike looking rather puzzled , He replied your wife understands fishing. A few days later, his brother called me from Miss. He asked me if I could explain to his wife that fishing thing.

 

I like it, Skippy! My DH would appreciate you, too! Also, if you marinate your deer meat in Italian dressing or even orange juice (!!!) it helps to get rid of the gamey taste (or so I've been told; my "great game hunter" kill enough for me to have that much experience with it, LOL!)

 

So Becky... can one assume you won't be out hunting with Jeannie anytime soon? (ducking from the tomatoes)... I'm just tormenting (Love ya)

 

Brenda- not just no.....

 

I can understand why you would be disturbed by the original story Beck. One part of me would be relieved that my child defended himself against harm, but the other part of me would be like "my baby used a gun...AH".

 

Was the original story about hunting, or self defense? I assumed the girl had been out hunting. I'm not sure I could use a gun for self-defense, not because I couldn't "hur" someone trying to hurt me or my family, but because I wouldn't know how to do it. It's a bit more than point-and-pull-the-trigger. Anyone attacking someone DESERVES to be hurt in the worse way possible!!!

 

I could shoot in self defense, but Iwouldn' like it.

 

The girl was out hunting with good old dad at an indecent hour. I wonder if he ever did something more on her level, like pizza and shopping? I'm betting not. I'm betting there's no son- except for her.