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Post by lenapej on Sept 30, 2021 18:08:54 GMT -7
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Post by brokennock on Sept 30, 2021 19:37:20 GMT -7
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
What did you do with all those little red squirrels?
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Post by Black Hand on Sept 30, 2021 20:15:42 GMT -7
What did you do with all those little red squirrels? We eat them... |
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Post by brokennock on Oct 1, 2021 3:58:59 GMT -7
Must take a dozen per man to make an appetizer.
The little red squirrels here taste like pine. If one soaks them in heavily salted water long enough most, but not all, the pine taste can be reduced.
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Post by Black Hand on Oct 1, 2021 4:49:56 GMT -7
2 or 3 in a pot of stew will feed 4-5 guys. I was also told years ago these tasted like pine, but it wasn't true. These little guys taste more like a cross between beef and venison...
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Post by hawkeyes on Oct 1, 2021 5:19:34 GMT -7
Wonderful time! Looks great, nothing better. Wish I had more time to make these types of events happen on a regular basis.
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Post by brokennock on Oct 1, 2021 8:34:24 GMT -7
Wonderful time! Looks great, nothing better. Wish I had more time to make these types of events happen on a regular basis. Full agreement here. |
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Post by Black Hand on Oct 1, 2021 10:58:57 GMT -7
Montana is great any time of year. No squirrel season either - you can shoot them all year round....
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Post by lenapej on Oct 1, 2021 14:52:46 GMT -7
Excellent. Thanks for sharing. What did you do with all those little red squirrels? I decided to cut it up and then rolled them in flour and fried it in a pan, did not taste any pine on that one. |
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Post by Black Hand on Oct 1, 2021 17:41:22 GMT -7
People may have gotten the impression because they tend to be smeared with pitch from eating the seeds of Pine & Fir. Having eaten the seeds myself, they have (at best) a very faint hint of Pine/Fir in the same way Pinenuts do.
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Post by brokennock on Oct 1, 2021 18:02:24 GMT -7
Only tried eating the ones we have here a couple times. I could taste the pine,much the same way pronghorn tastes like sage.
Won't say I wouldn't try them again, but, I'd rather focus on grey squirrels,,,, we don't have those great big fox squirrels here.
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Post by hawkeyes on Oct 2, 2021 7:49:59 GMT -7
I'd rather focus on grey squirrels,,,, we don't have those great big fox squirrels here. You mean like the big fella to the left...? 😃  Love my grey and reds! A FINE meal. I will say here in the southern Ohio Valley no shortage of fox and greys. As I've come to learn many choose not to pursue squirrel much anymore. Many are to focused on deer, which is fine but IMO the skills learned for stalking, hunting and learning squirrel are invaluable. Plus again they are delicious in any fashion of cookery! |
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Post by brokennock on Oct 2, 2021 10:58:33 GMT -7
We get big greys like that, sometimes with a little of that reddish tinge.
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Post by spence on Oct 2, 2021 13:10:40 GMT -7
I met a guy named Nathan Jeffery through YouTube, I'm familiar with Nathan Jeffery's channel, have been following it for quite a while. He does some good stuff, some interesting experimental archeology. Your outing was obviously a good one. Spence |
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