Do You Think They "know"?

[Dr B 186]

Where`s the stripes in your lawn doc ?

A smoking doctor - tsk ! tsk ! tsk !

 

hahaha...I know Mark, I'm terrible with the garden. I prefer it a bit 'wild' as it attracts more wildlife like some interesting frogs, butterflies, and hedgehogs. I've also got two foxes sleeping in the garden from time to time (just don't tell Charlie Caller )..but they don't seem to bother anything. However, I do need to get off my arse and mow that lawn.

 

I only smoke a pipe at about once a week, usually as a treat....but yes, bad habit.

[Dr B 186]

Perfect shot with the squirrel. I've eaten a lot of squirrel recently as a friend's wood was infested with them. It's a lot of faf as they're built like tanks. But it is a fantastic meat and I don't like to waste it. 'Kentucky fried squirrel' is one of my kid's favorite! (I know how treat them!) It seems that squirrel is the meat of the moment in London restaurants. As such, there's a lot of interest in it. My local butcher traded me a brace of squirrels for a kilogram of kangeroo steak last week. It has to be the most bizzare trade I've ever made!!!

 

Fascinating. I've never eaten them myself - are they like rabbit in terms of taste and texture? How do you cook them?

 

I've got a mate who does a lot of charcoal burning - has his own woodlands and does it the old fashioned way, gives classes on it and everything to the forestry commission etc. I tend to give him most of my dead ones and he puts them on the kiln and cooks them for his dogs. Nothing goes to waste.

 

 

Slightly of topic but, do people here eat rabbit livers / kidneys etc? I don't, I throw them away, but I'm reliably informed they are lovely. A bit of butter and garlic in the pan and apparently its referred to as 'poachers breakfast'. I might 'man up' with the next bunny cull and give it a whirl.

[charlie caller 3,654]

Perfect shot with the squirrel. I've eaten a lot of squirrel recently as a friend's wood was infested with them. It's a lot of faf as they're built like tanks. But it is a fantastic meat and I don't like to waste it. 'Kentucky fried squirrel' is one of my kid's favorite! (I know how treat them!) It seems that squirrel is the meat of the moment in London restaurants. As such, there's a lot of interest in it. My local butcher traded me a brace of squirrels for a kilogram of kangeroo steak last week. It has to be the most bizzare trade I've ever made!!!

Do tell us your secret recipe please Colonel Saunders, would like to cook some for my brats Kentucky style, I usually chuck them in a stew with rabbit, pheasant, venison, whatever I have really, must say squirrel meat is very nice sweet meat, nutty chicken is how a lady friend of mine describes it.

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I describe squirrel as a cross between Lamb and Duck in both taste and texture. Easy KFS, get a Maggi crispy chicken and coat the squirrel in it!

http://www.maggi.co.uk/products/so-crispy/

 

There you go!

Edited May 19, 2015 by secretagentmole

[theflashingblade 11]

I joint up the squirrel and drop it in a bowl with a beaten egg and some crushed garlic. I always keep the tag ends of loaves that don't get eaten and leave them in the bottom of the even to crisp up and dry out when I'm cooking other stuff. So I bash them up into bread crumbs in a plastic bag and throw in a handful of porridge oats and a little salt and pepper.

 

Then I drop the eggy, garlicy squirrel into the bag and shake it all about until all the squirrel joints are coated. Shallow frying them on a medium heat in a big frying pan with a lid it seems to work best. They half fry, half steam themselves. When they turn golden brown, they're done!

 

When the kids were little, I used to fillet the squirrel joints. Now that really is a faff! To be honest the meat is more tastey when cooked on the bone.

 

These days, I send my 13 year old son down to the chippy for a couple of portions of chips while I cook the squirrel! Its a great treat!

[theflashingblade 11]

Incidently Dr B, on the subject of eating rabbit liver, I don't eat it personally. The rabbits on my permission frequently get tape worm. My local butcher tells me that it's currently a national problem.

 

The first cists tend to be laid in the liver, charactorised by white spots or lines. Cooking the liver well should kill them, but will also leave you with liver like shoe leather! Eating a lightly cooked liver from an infected rabbit is the best way I can think of of getting tape worm. The species of tape worm in rabbit comfortably parasitizes humans also causing brain damage.

 

If you insist on eating the livers freeze it first! Apparently 24 hours at -20 DEG C kills the cists. That way you'll be able to be able to cook it lightly and eat safely

 

By the same token, friends that feed their animals wild meat always freeze it for a day or so first.

[random 659]

Squirrel mmm,under rated and over looked,I think its worth the hassle to prepare and can be done nicely in a few ways,and the rabbit organs have always been a treat for the ferrets,should look at adding them to my own cooking for flavour??

[random 659]

And yeah they know dont they,walk out the back door with dogs in tow down to the shed and they sit there staring,pop out to shoot targets or whatever and they're off like rockets!