First, live out in the country where invasive, exotic gray squirrels are abundant, a nuisance, and where a pellet gun raises no eyebrows.
Go shoot one (30 seconds)
Ethics 101 — You kill it, you HAVE to eat it.
Quick skin and quarter (3 minutes)
Fire up the old Instant Pot with a few handfuls of spices, and bay leaves and bouillon; toss in squirrel quarters and back (3 minutes)
(or roll in spices and/or breadcrumbs and brown in olive oil first is so inclined) (4 minutes extra)
Cover and set on 23 minutes high-pressure (23 minutes)
Start a pot of rice while old fangy is stewing.
(We are 35 minutes into this now)
Chop up a lettuce, avocado and tomato salad (multi-tasking with 3 meal components at play simultaneously- good efficiency there!)
Serve Mr. Chucklehead over rice with a side salad for lunch.
Notice that there are now two more squirrels assaulting your bird feeder . . . sigh.
Settle down to a pipe full of loose-leaf tobacco and a little banjo music.
Feel your neck getting redder by the minute.
Wonder why your spouse ever married such a bumpkin that reverts to his childhood so readily.
Lee
PS: this meal was delicious but also prepared while wife wonderful was out of the country, it is just . . . better that way.
