Squirrel and rice

[gland]

When I was a kid,(-50+ years ago) mom would cook dads squirrels down in rice heads and all, with the livers and hearts. Usually had 4 or 5 in a baking pan. :thumbsup: Any body know how she did this. Dad just loved the heads, so I never got one. :nono: Can't quite get it right.
Was this just treerat dirty rice?

 

[George]

Can't help you with the squirrel dirty rice, although it sounds tasty. If you are cooking the heads and eating the brains, though, be aware that squirrels have been known to carry a variant of mad cow disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD. Not good.

Spence

 

[Birdman]

don't know the recipie but sure does sound good

 

[sidelock]

Been wonderin whuts wrong wiff me!!!!! now I no. :haha:

 

[gland]

After some searches on that internet thing, I find that she was making a jambalaya. Look for Squirrel Jambalaya. But thanks for scratchin' your heads anyway! :hatsoff:

 

[Billnpatti]

I'm glad you figured it out. The only way I have known to make squirrel and rice was to boil the squirrels until the meat would fall off the bones. Then remove the squirrels from the broth and use the broth to cook the rice. I'd add chopped onions and celery, salt and pepper to the broth while the rice was cooking. When the rice was done, I'd add the meat back in and stir it up. YUM-O!! :hatsoff:

BTW, my grandma would fry squirrels including the heads and my grandpa and I would fight over the heads. Not much there but a bit of jowel meat, tongue and brains but it was worth fighting over. Of course, the "fight" was only a playful one. When my grandpa died all those years ago, he left a perminant hole in my heart.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

breaded, fryed (even head) then gravy made from drippings for gravy over rice is my thinking
oh yeah use the liver, heart and kidneys mashed into the gravy after cooked them

 

[Billnpatti]

Alas, my mouth waters at the thought. Fried squirrel with rice and gravy.....now that's living.

 

[crockett]

Squirrel's pretty darn good no matter how you cook it. I like the quarters fried and I like the meat in Brunswick stew or a gumbo/jambalaya type dish. Some folks tell me what I cook is Gumbolaya. :grin: Sort of a little this and that, whatever I got lying around.

 

[gland]

Thats how I do it. Put good stuff in the pot, good stuff comes out, Kinda like this computin thing here. :stir:

 

[Grizzled Roberts]

Ok we have some fine recipes for cooking squirrels in a pot or pan. Does anyone have a method for cooking squirrels over a camp fire with a "squirrel cooker" ?

Squirrels and gravy are great with cat head biscuits!

 

[Birdman]

STUFF THE CAVITY WITH SLICED APPLE N A BIT OF GARLIC, SOAK SOME SKEWERS IN WATER THEN WRAP SQUIRREL WITH BACON N SKEWER INTO PLACE TO HOLD, COOK LOW N SLOW N LET BACON BASTE THE SQUIRREL AS IT COOKS(SALT N PEPPER TO TASE), HAVE SOME BUTTERED BANNOCK N A GOOD COLD ALE N ENJOY ,OR A GOOD SIDE IS CUBED POTATO SIMMERED IN WATER UNTIL SOFT.again salt n pepper n spice to taste

 

[Grizzled Roberts]

Sounds great! I should have known bacon was involved!

 

[Billnpatti]

Cat Head Biscuits???? The last person I heard use that term was my great grandma. Lord have mercy, those were delicious biscuits and she baked them in a wood fired oven. I'd give anything just to have one more of her cat head biscuits.