Thread: Squirrel, anyone?

jmcquown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:

I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
I know of.

-sw

"jmcquown" <[email protected]>
news:[email protected]: in rec.food.cooking

> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let
> my cat go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
> http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....ny-pictures-ca
> t-asks-ted-to-get-the-steak-sauce-and-good-forks.jpg
>
> Of course, if I have to eat one I *will* use the good forks
>
> I'm making crab cakes to take to my mother for lunch. She'll be done
> with her physical therapy by lunchtime. She surely won't eat the
> hamburger she ordered for lunch. But it was that or more tough baked
> fish. She's never liked fish. She might eat the (baked) fries that
> come with the burger, though. I think fries will go perfectly well
> with crab cakes Remind me to take tartar sauce.
>
> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first
> posted back in 2002):

<snip for space>

You're rambling this morning A squirrel would probably have Persia
for lunch instead of the other way around. Even Bart doesn't mess with
the squirrels, 'coons or opossums. Bart does find rabbit and various
types of fowl (for lack of a better word The house cats all sit on
their perch in the kitchen plotting against the birds that use the bird
bath

I'll have to look but I think the recipe you posted is the one I finally
was able to make with good results way back when I was going through my
crab cakes crisis. They are very good and I was able to finally make
them without them falling apart using your recipe.

Michael
--
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like you ordered wrong."
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In article <[email protected]>,
"jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
> http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....ures-cat-asks-
> ted-to-get-the-steak-sauce-and-good-forks.jpg
>
> Of course, if I have to eat one I *will* use the good forks

That's a FAT squirrel! ;-)
None of the ones around here are quite that big, but nobody nearby feeds
them either.

>
> I'm making crab cakes to take to my mother for lunch. She'll be done with
> her physical therapy by lunchtime. She surely won't eat the hamburger she
> ordered for lunch. But it was that or more tough baked fish. She's never
> liked fish. She might eat the (baked) fries that come with the burger,
> though. I think fries will go perfectly well with crab cakes Remind me
> to take tartar sauce.

It's good to hear she's in physical therapy already! Wow.

>
> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first posted
> back in 2002):
>
> 3 c. cooked crabmeat (about 1-1/2 pounds)
> 1/3 c. breadcrumbs
> 2 Tbs. mayonnaise
> 2 tsp. minced parsley
> 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
> 1/4 tsp. pepper
> 1/2 tsp. salt
> 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
> 1 large egg, lightly beaten
> 3 Tbs. butter
>
> In large bowl, shred the crabmeat. Mix in remaining ingredients except
> butter. Divide into 8 cakes. In large skillet over medium heat, melt
> butter until hot. Fry cakes in butter, flattening gently with spatula as
> they are added , until golden brown on each side (turn once). Serves 4 @ 2
> cakes each.
>
> Jill

Wonder how that'd work with shrimp?
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

jmcquown wrote:
>
> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>

A cat I had many years ago used to chase squirrels and sometimes caught
them. One time I watched him chasing one through a tree and out to the
end of a large branch. The squirrel tried to jump to another branch and
missed, and the cat skidded to a stop at the end of the branch and
looked down smiling as the squirrel fell some 30' onto a rock. The cat
then nonchalantly turned around and strolled back down out of the tree.
The squirrel recovered while the cat was coming back down and ran off,
but the cat was quite pleased

I've tried squirrel and it's not bad. Stewed with tomatoes and peppers
it's a bit like gamier chicken wings.

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> "jmcquown" <[email protected]>
> news:[email protected]: in rec.food.cooking
>
>> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let
>> my cat go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>>
>> http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....ny-pictures-ca
>> t-asks-ted-to-get-the-steak-sauce-and-good-forks.jpg
>>
>> Of course, if I have to eat one I *will* use the good forks
>>
>> I'm making crab cakes to take to my mother for lunch. She'll be done
>> with her physical therapy by lunchtime. She surely won't eat the
>> hamburger she ordered for lunch. But it was that or more tough baked
>> fish. She's never liked fish. She might eat the (baked) fries that
>> come with the burger, though. I think fries will go perfectly well
>> with crab cakes Remind me to take tartar sauce.
>>
>> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first
>> posted back in 2002):
>
> <snip for space>
>
> You're rambling this morning A squirrel would probably have Persia
> for lunch instead of the other way around. Even Bart doesn't mess
> with the squirrels, 'coons or opossums.

Persia weighs 16 lbs. so she could certainly take on a squirrel. That's if
I let her outside. And assuming some ass* hadn't front declawed her before
she came to me.

> Bart does find rabbit and
> various types of fowl (for lack of a better word The house cats
> all sit on their perch in the kitchen plotting against the birds that
> use the bird bath
>
Of course they do! Down here Persia is on constant lizard watch. They love
to tease her by running up and down the screens.

> I'll have to look but I think the recipe you posted is the one I
> finally was able to make with good results way back when I was going
> through my crab cakes crisis. They are very good and I was able to
> finally make them without them falling apart using your recipe.
>
> Michael


That's good to know! I wish Mom hadn't thrown out the cookbook the recipe
came from. There was probably lots of other good stuff in it I didn't
bother to write down.

Jill

Omelet wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first
>> posted back in 2002):
>>
>> 3 c. cooked crabmeat (about 1-1/2 pounds)
>> 1/3 c. breadcrumbs
>> 2 Tbs. mayonnaise
>> 2 tsp. minced parsley
>> 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
>> 1/4 tsp. pepper
>> 1/2 tsp. salt
>> 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
>> 1 large egg, lightly beaten
>> 3 Tbs. butter
>>
>> In large bowl, shred the crabmeat. Mix in remaining ingredients
>> except butter. Divide into 8 cakes. In large skillet over medium
>> heat, melt butter until hot. Fry cakes in butter, flattening gently
>> with spatula as they are added , until golden brown on each side
>> (turn once). Serves 4 @ 2 cakes each.
>>
>
> Wonder how that'd work with shrimp?


Well, it's not a recipe for shrimp cakes so I wouldn't bet my life on the
results.

Jill

Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not
so great) words of knowledge:
> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
> http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress....good-forks.jpg
>
> Of course, if I have to eat one I *will* use the good forks
>
> I'm making crab cakes to take to my mother for lunch. She'll be done with
> her physical therapy by lunchtime. She surely won't eat the hamburger she
> ordered for lunch. But it was that or more tough baked fish. She's never
> liked fish. She might eat the (baked) fries that come with the burger,
> though. I think fries will go perfectly well with crab cakes Remind me
> to take tartar sauce.
>
> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first posted
> back in 2002):
>
> 3 c. cooked crabmeat (about 1-1/2 pounds)
> 1/3 c. breadcrumbs
> 2 Tbs. mayonnaise
> 2 tsp. minced parsley
> 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
> 1/4 tsp. pepper
> 1/2 tsp. salt
> 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
> 1 large egg, lightly beaten
> 3 Tbs. butter
>
> In large bowl, shred the crabmeat. Mix in remaining ingredients except
> butter. Divide into 8 cakes. In large skillet over medium heat, melt
> butter until hot. Fry cakes in butter, flattening gently with spatula as
> they are added , until golden brown on each side (turn once). Serves 4 @ 2
> cakes each.
>
> Jill
>

Many people will not eat squirrel because they are "cute" (AKA "Bambi"
for venison). Others will not eat squirrel because they are basically a
rat with a bushy tail.

However these same people eat lobster and crab (scavengers and bottom
feeders), and appear to enjoy pheasant and quail (cute).

Go figure

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:29:23 -0600, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
wrote:

>jmcquown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
>> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
>I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
>lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
>I know of.
>
I had a cat that not only caught one, he ate everything except the
tail.



--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

Sqwertz wrote:

> I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
> lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
> I know of.


In your case, Steve, your cats have a squirrel for an *owner*...

:-)


--
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Greg

" I find Greg Morrow lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to claim that
we are some
kind of comedy team turns my stomach."
- "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> jmcquown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> > go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
> I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
> lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
> I know of.

When I had cats, gophers were the most common,
but they'd take an occasional squirrel. Once
I was cleaning up the house and found two squirrel
tails right next to each other in a corner.
No sign of the rest of the squirrels.

A few minutes ago, I saw a coyote or coydog
in the backyard for the first time in about
two years. This one was all gray.

In article <[email protected]> ,
"Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
> > lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
> > I know of.
>
>
> In your case, Steve, your cats have a squirrel for an *owner*...
>
> :-)

Okay, that was funny. ;-D
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

"Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> jmcquown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my
>> cat
>> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>
> I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
> lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
> I know of.
>
> -sw

I had one. Jasmine was her name.

I came home and saw her with jaws clinched on the squirrel's neck.

When I approached her, she got skeered I was gonna steal her squirrel..

I backed off and went back to the truck for the camera. I have the pictures
on one of these hard drives...

Just take my word for it.


TFM®

> Of course they do! Down here Persia is on constant lizard watch. They
> love to tease her by running up and down the screens.

Our cats are on lizard patrol 24/7

I know when a lizard is up high on the screen door when I hear "the retard"
(her name) is stuck at the top of it.

TFM®

TFM® <[email protected]> wrote in
news:49161ba4$0$31562$[email protected] com:


>
> I had one. Jasmine was her name.
>
> I came home and saw her with jaws clinched on the squirrel's neck.
>
> When I approached her, she got skeered I was gonna steal her
> squirrel..
>
> I backed off and went back to the truck for the camera. I have the
> pictures on one of these hard drives...
>
> Just take my word for it.
>


We will.......... until you find the photos ;-)


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?

TFM® wrote:
>
>
> "Sqwertz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> jmcquown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let
>>> my cat
>>> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:
>>
>> I've never had a cat that caught a squirrel. Chipmunks, birds,
>> lizards, ducklings, rabbits, etc... but never a squirrel that
>> I know of.
>>
>> -sw
>
> I had one. Jasmine was her name.
>
> I came home and saw her with jaws clinched on the squirrel's neck.
>
> When I approached her, she got skeered I was gonna steal her squirrel..
>
> I backed off and went back to the truck for the camera. I have the
> pictures on one of these hard drives...
>
> Just take my word for it.
>
>
> TFM®

When I still lived with my parents in The Bronx, before I got married, I
had a squirrel that lived on my fire escape in a little house that a
carpenter made for it. It was a wild animal, but learned to trust me
and came into the apartment when I opened the window, to get nuts and
other foods, as well as to steal anything shiny in the room.

The building superintendent had the sad chore to tell me that a stray
cat had killed it, after it had lived safely on the fire escape for
almost two years.

In its little home, besides a large cache of nuts and other foods such
as dry cereals, I also found my watch, a pair of tweezers, a pair of
eyeglasses and lots of shiny coins.

I always wondered afterwards, whether it had gotten too trusting and
whether that had contributed to its death (remember the warning in "The
Little Prince about taming wild animals?).

jmcquown wrote:

> Crab Cakes (from an old recipe book my mother no longer has, first
> posted back in 2002):

> Jill

You already stole her recipe book, vulture?

-dk

"Margaret Suran" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gf5c6o$73s$[email protected]..
> When I still lived with my parents in The Bronx, before I got married, I
> had a squirrel that lived on my fire escape in a little house that a
> carpenter made for it. It was a wild animal, but learned to trust me and
> came into the apartment when I opened the window, to get nuts and other
> foods, as well as to steal anything shiny in the room.
>
> The building superintendent had the sad chore to tell me that a stray cat
> had killed it, after it had lived safely on the fire escape for almost two
> years.
>
> In its little home, besides a large cache of nuts and other foods such as
> dry cereals, I also found my watch, a pair of tweezers, a pair of
> eyeglasses and lots of shiny coins.
>
> I always wondered afterwards, whether it had gotten too trusting and
> whether that had contributed to its death (remember the warning in "The
> Little Prince about taming wild animals?).


Sounds a bit like a cat I heard about, Margaret The programming manager
at work had a cat that used to steal her rings and her watch when she took
them off to wash dishes. She'd find them hidden away in the strangest
places. Let's face it, animals are strange and also wonderful.

Jill

In article <49161e8f$0$31634$[email protected]> ,
TFM® <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Of course they do! Down here Persia is on constant lizard watch. They
> > love to tease her by running up and down the screens.
>
> Our cats are on lizard patrol 24/7
>
> I know when a lizard is up high on the screen door when I hear "the retard"
> (her name) is stuck at the top of it.
>
> TFM®

That's too funny. ;-) Lizards on the west side window screens drive our
cats nuts too.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

jmcquown wrote:

> Some people actually eat them. I prefer to watch them. I won't let my cat
> go out to eat them but she can plot all she likes:

Midwesterner, here. We hunted squirrels (there was a fall season on
them). We ate 'em. Just fried 'em up not fancy.


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