Squirrel stew

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So as I said I bought a couple of oven-ready squirrels to try. I had read that there isn’t much meat on a squirrel apart from the haunches, so I was a little bit surprised to find almost a whole squirrel in there (minus the head). Never tried cooking squirrel before so I decided to put them in the slow cooker with plenty of vegetables. The result was a tasty stew, which was enough to make a meal for the four of us two nights running, with a little bit left over. The slow cooking meant that the meat easily came off the bones, but of course we had to keep picking little bones out. Funnily enough although Little One normally makes a fuss if she finds a single bone in a piece of fish (and you can guarantee that if there is one bone in a meal of fish fillets, she will be the one to find it!) she didn’t complain about these but said it was like an anatomy lesson, as we picked out tiny ribs, shoulder blades, vertebrae etc. As far as the flavour was concerned, it wasn’t like anything else I have eaten and the first night I was convinced that I wouldn’t buy it again, although the others seemed to like it well enough. By the second night though it had mellowed somehow and I liked it better. I would try it again if I come across anywhere selling any. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.