Step 1: Get up early in the morning and drive out to some beautiful woods.
Any old woods will do, but if you can go to someplace exciting, go someplace exciting.
Step 2: Explore, and enjoy nature.
Remember why you’re out here- for the zest of exploring the woods and the chance to scratch together a meager meal based on the land.
Step 3: Hunt ya up a critter.
These critters are tough to catch slipping. They’ve played the games all season. The best you can do is spot them from afar in some place into which you can still hunt. It seems that by creeping patiently, you’re more likely to catch a squirrel that has come out unaware of your presence than to sneak up on a particular squirrel that you’ve spotted.
Step 4: Vaguely follow this recipe.
Ingrediants:
1 young squirrel, skinned and quartered into 5 pieces
1/2 lb smoked sausage, sliced
1/2 lb potatoes, diced
1 medium onion
4-5 cloves of garlic, minced
1 quart chicken stock
1 packet of pot roast seasoning
Oil or substitute
Steps:
- Heat a bit of oil in a camp pot.
- Brown the squirrel on all sides, pull and set aside.
- Cook the sliced onion and garlic in the pot until the onions become translucent.
- Add potatoes and cook together until the potatoes begin to soften, stirring frequently.
- Add squirrel, sausage, stock and a judicious amount of pot roast seasoning to the pot.
- Heat covered over coals as long as you can stand waiting- ideally at least 2 hours.
