I forgot how good it was. Me and the boy got a few last week in Michigan and here's what I did. I don't have recipes or write things down so this is close, adjust to your taste.

Cut two whole squirrels in half so they fit in my Dutch oven.
Enough bacon grease in Dutch oven to fry all pieces
I season pretty heavy with garlic salt, pepper, and natures seasoning
When grease is hot put pieces in big zip lock with flour and get em coated good
Fry all pieces one or two at a time not crowding pan until close to done, your mostly getting the flour good and brown
Once they are all cook deglaze oven with a cup of chicken broth
Add all pieces back in oven and a little water to almost cover all pieces
Put lid on and place Dutch in a 250 degree oven for a couple hours
Pull out and add some cut up potatoes and onion and garlic
Back in for another hour or so
When the broth gets thick from the flour and the potatoes are done the meat will pull off bone, it will be potatoes, gravy, squirrel all in one pot

When's dinner?

-ww

Awesome...

sounds good! my mother used to do similar but instead of the potatoes, she made drop dumplings (like drop bisquits) and put in where you put in the potatoes. Squirrel dumplings, yummy!

Hard to beat good ole tree rats! i got a yr round season here so keep pretty full on them lol

i think they taste better than cottontail

I'll take billybob's serving.

Split it??

We had squirrel tonight! Good, authentic southern cuisine!

No sir...I can think of lots of things that beat "tree rats"

do you do any brine soak before cooking like the rabbits? we got two tonight.

Probably some of these guys that dont like squirell will tell you they love duck meat. I wil eat squirell anyday of the week instead of duck. I dont like my food to taste like liver.

Mmmmmmmmmm

Have not tried this yet, waiting on a little cooler weather but it looked good on Steven Rinella's show Meat Eater. http://themeateater.com/2012/squirrel-or-rabbit-hasenpfeffer/

no need to brine if your going to cook it as the OP says, it wont dry out.

I think im gonna have to get me a cotton tail while at the ranch next time and bust out the dutch and start a camp fire... we dont have any squirels down there.

Two more, thought I would put this up to motivate you guys to go get some.

Luckily, I'm not picky. Ill take both.

Luv me some limb chicken!!

Not tree rats, but tree treats! Love a good pot of critter stew.

fried with skillet gravy, fried potatoes, and biscuits. Throw in a slice of onion and a jalapeno. This is the proper method for the eating of tree rat.

I agree. Never have had duck that I would call really good, but squirrel I can get excited about.

MMMMM. Need to try this. Boy got a .22 from santa so I'll need this recipe soon.

Squirrel and dumplings. Yummy