Tree Rat “Carnitas” Tacos! Squirrel Hunt! (Catch, Clean, Cook)

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  • @michelleortman
    @michelleortman 2 роки тому +13

    Those look DELICIOUS!! My hubby has made squirrel adobo and it is soooo good! This would be fun to try! Kudos to your lady for being out there and giving it a shot!

  • @juanmosqueda896
    @juanmosqueda896 Рік тому +4

    Folks, new to your channel as followed over from Blue Gabe. Love the content , the family togetherness and the tips. This squirrel video reminded me how three teenaged boys used a 410 and .22 to hunt squirrels in the Texas river bottoms 40 years ago.The third boy was our retriever. Grandma cooked squirrel in dumplings, carnitas, stewed, and pulled bbq with some added rabbit. With fresh hand made corn tortillas and salsa we always had full bellys.
    Thanks for doing this. Reminded me of a time when the world was kinder, kids could be kids and enjoy the outdoors and life was full of wonder and excitement in the woods.

  • @dauntewimbush1939
    @dauntewimbush1939 2 роки тому +3

    Love it man! Local Floridian here and love the cooking style videos. Keep it up

  • @dylanfuller9501
    @dylanfuller9501 2 роки тому +6

    Definitely need more videos like this, I think the variety is awesome!

  • @someonewhocares5712
    @someonewhocares5712 2 роки тому +1

    Yeaaaaa tacos. Yummmm. Thanks for sharing 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @arthurledezma9003
    @arthurledezma9003 2 роки тому +1

    Like your approach! Brown them up, then the oven and finally a little more pan action! That lime with the chicken stock must do wonders! Delicious sir! Thank you for sharing! God bless!!

  • @awwjr29
    @awwjr29 2 роки тому +3

    Been watching you content for the last week or so. Squirrel tacos is my secret camp recipe. Great video.

  • @craigortman4759
    @craigortman4759 2 роки тому +1

    Great video we loved it. Now adobo squirrel.
    Place squirrel in pressure cooker, crockpot, cover with 3/4 of water to 1/4 of vinegar. Add brown sugar to taste, I would say starting with about a quarter cup. Add in approximately half to 3/4 cup soy sauce. Bring cooker up to high heat for about 20 to 30 minutes. check your broth and add more brown sugar if you want, throw in potatoes and carrots, bring back to a boil for another 10 to 15 minutes to soften them and enjoy. you can do it in a Dutch oven too. You just need to let it simmer a little longer.

  • @PSSKDerby
    @PSSKDerby 2 роки тому +7

    Great video Tug! Probably something I’ll never eat, but you made it look delicious. Keep them coming

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you!

    • @blippacg
      @blippacg Рік тому +2

      Nothing wrong with the taste. Haven't had them much but they go well with mac n' cheese.

  • @mastergunnerysgt1258
    @mastergunnerysgt1258 Рік тому +1

    Love the vid Tug. I have seen others on youtub clean squirrel, fast and easy. The same way that I clean them. I use traps in the area that I live in. Sum people feed them and make them fat, they are the city slickers. They are the ones who will not let me put traps around home. The others are fine with it. 12 traps, 3 days and 12 tasty squirrels. Old Master Gunnery SGT USMC. And I fix them in many different ways. And BTW 1 BB and 1 per beast.

  • @southstar8025
    @southstar8025 2 роки тому +4

    Great video. I’m going small game hunting next weekend and will definitely be trying this recipe, thanks!

  • @gradybrowning3976
    @gradybrowning3976 2 роки тому +6

    Carnitas sound killer, usually eat squirrel stewed with dumplings, or fried. But yours sounds delicious!

  • @jaybo516
    @jaybo516 Рік тому +1

    Cooked 5 of them the other day smothered in gravy. Then I made grits , chilled them on a cookie sheet to cut with a biscuit cutter . Then deep fried them . Once they were done........ smother your fried grit cakes with your squirrel & gravy ! Man oh man was it good !!

  • @bigben9379
    @bigben9379 2 роки тому

    Fun and interesting from the woods to the table. I like how you folks had your bases covered with both shotgun and rifle.
    The cooking was creative and looked good.

  • @tommorgan5826
    @tommorgan5826 Рік тому

    Hey, a wife that will carry your meat is a keeper! Awesome! Squirrel Tacos, never thought of that! My favorite is squirrel and dumplings!

  • @mikehixson3246
    @mikehixson3246 2 роки тому +22

    Shot a couple of squirrels. My buddy at work never had one, so I abliged his request. His wife is from the Philippines and prepared them Adobo Style. We had them with steamed rice. Best squirrel I've ever eaten!

  • @sambo170a
    @sambo170a Рік тому

    What a nice couple having fun Greetings from UK

  • @Freedom2219
    @Freedom2219 2 роки тому

    Awesome video may the first video ever on squirrel 😀 tacos 🌮 😋

  • @nathancole3872
    @nathancole3872 2 роки тому +2

    Keep the videos coming! I’m a Sta local and really like the videos!

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +1

      Awesome! Thanks you! I got something really cool coming out soon

  • @datilman9146
    @datilman9146 2 роки тому +1

    I just subscribed about a month ago and it's so funny i was on UA-cam looking up FWC hunting areas for squirrel and your video was the first thing to pop up. I live near Mayport. Awsome video bud!! Keep the coming...

  • @Stan_L
    @Stan_L Рік тому

    Great video! Thanks for sharing.

  • @michaelenglish8004
    @michaelenglish8004 2 роки тому

    I enjoy your videos because y'all are genuine. Keep up the great work! 👍

  • @Bruno-ns7gm
    @Bruno-ns7gm 6 місяців тому

    I used to bag 4 or 5 units a day when i was a kid. 20 gauge single shot and 22 lr repeater. I had the big woods to myself. Right out the back door. Less than a mile from ICW. I like it fried in bacon grease or smoked on the grill. If smoke i do fresh oysters on grill .
    As always much love and peace to the family. ❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  6 місяців тому +1

      Sounds like a hell of a childhood!

    • @Bruno-ns7gm
      @Bruno-ns7gm 6 місяців тому

      @@TugTrashOutdoors where woods once stood
      is now a neighborhood
      totally a different view
      from the world that I once knew. 🌳🐿️🌳
      have a prosperous day !!!

  • @reapergrim76
    @reapergrim76 2 роки тому

    Awesome kitchen light! 👌

  • @fewridge6479
    @fewridge6479 2 роки тому

    Greetings from South Alabama. I ran across you by accident but I always stop for a new squirrel recipe. I throughly enjoyed it.

  • @stephenwallace2563
    @stephenwallace2563 Рік тому

    Great hunt and I grow up hunting Northwest Florida area. Squirrel hunting was always just as fun to me as deer. Cooking was always fun to with everything you could pass it off as being,

  • @TeamTwistedGaming-TTG
    @TeamTwistedGaming-TTG 2 роки тому

    Love your videos have watched every single one, came from Bluegabe when you guys did the oysters. I see why the two of you are good friends. Keep the amazing videos up!

  • @Wewhoooooo
    @Wewhoooooo 2 роки тому

    Lol didn’t keep watching hahahaha!!!! YES I SEE HOW TENDER IT IS

  • @easternncbigfoot1288
    @easternncbigfoot1288 2 роки тому +1

    Squirrel hunting brings back lots of good memories as about 80 percent of the time I hunted it was for squirrel growing up. I've had it just about every way you can prepare it just like Bubba Gumps shrimp lol. Great video man, it looks damn good.Also as I was writing this you said north east Florida, that's where I grew up. If I want on private land I was in Nassau WMA before thet broke it all up.

  • @davidlyons6192
    @davidlyons6192 2 роки тому

    Awesome video. I love watching ones local to where I grew up :)

  • @MAJJJJJJ
    @MAJJJJJJ 2 роки тому

    Yeah man those tacos look great . good job guys. Oh and nice tree and good job to your camera girl

  • @rickylain9483
    @rickylain9483 2 роки тому +1

    Great video. I love squirrel meat so this is a new recipe for me. I bet you are also the cook on the Tug Boat.

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому

      Yes sir I cook for the crew when whenever I get a chance!

  • @perrybutler5970
    @perrybutler5970 2 роки тому

    Ian, loved the video and love fried squirrel. When I get several my wife and I can them and it does not take long to prepare it later. Something else that I have found that is delicious is young raccoon. I flour it and fry it like rabbit. Thanks for sharing, my friend. PB

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому

      We actually saw a young raccoon and discussed inviting him home for dinner but decided to save that video for later! Thanks

  • @vladfish
    @vladfish 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent video 👍

  • @nealcowell945
    @nealcowell945 2 роки тому

    So glad i found you on bluegabes video!! Keep the great videos coming brother!!

  • @glennvanb3012
    @glennvanb3012 2 роки тому

    Man you made that look fun I used to squirrel hunt in Michigan but still I had fun watching you thanks

  • @raymaylone8563
    @raymaylone8563 2 роки тому

    Great stuff. 1st time watcher. Can’t wait to see field dressing them to see if I have done it right. If others can post field dressing a whitetail deer a squirrel should be no problem. It’s educational learning. Keep teaching!!!!!!!

  • @TheMeyerWay
    @TheMeyerWay 2 роки тому

    Just shared this on a hunting page. Someone was asking the best way to cook squirrel!!! I can’t wait to try this

  • @aarongaskins1494
    @aarongaskins1494 2 роки тому

    Just stumbled across this. I've never commented on anything on UA-cam but I had to with this. Great simple video man. I see you becoming one of the big channels. Keep it up. going to pop a few this weekend and use this exact recipe!

  • @anguskd
    @anguskd 2 роки тому +1

    Some great tips Tug! The idea of combining a shotgun and 22 is a game changer. (Going back to get your girl bug spray was a veteran move!) Definitely will try the recipe. Love the content keep it coming!

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому

      Thank you!!!

    • @randytrashcan
      @randytrashcan Рік тому

      I've been taking a lightweight single shot 20ga and a PCP rifle in .22 when hunting. The rifle can be suppressed without the tax stamp, it's mouse fart quiet, and just as precise as any rimfire I've ever shot. It's nice to be able to swap out for the shotgun if I must, but I'll use the air rifle any time I can. It won't startle the other squirrels in the area like a gunshot does.

  • @soggybottomgoldprospecting3586
    @soggybottomgoldprospecting3586 2 роки тому

    Can’t wait to try this recipe I never thought of tree rat tacos. Hitting the sub button

  • @chucksmith5002
    @chucksmith5002 2 роки тому

    I`m going to try that when Small Game comes around looks good thanks Tug and Wife enjoyed it.

  • @williamlittle2814
    @williamlittle2814 2 роки тому

    For the next time Tug,
    Pull all the meat onto a sheet pan, spray with olive oil and then broil them on high for a few minutes. Crispy
    Bits in minutes without another pan. You epitomize the song…A Country Boy can survive. Glad I found your channel. Keep it up.

  • @reavisstockard2994
    @reavisstockard2994 2 роки тому +1

    Cool recipe , I made bourbon chicken of the tree the other day , obviously just squirrel with a bourbon chicken recipe.

  • @petegamez2692
    @petegamez2692 10 місяців тому

    Looks sooo damn tasty I wanted to jump through the video lol 😆👏

  • @yesdeere1376
    @yesdeere1376 2 роки тому

    I love squirrel 👍🏻
    I have an old .22/410 over and under I use.

  • @Tracy-Inches
    @Tracy-Inches Рік тому

    Add your favorite hot sauce to your baja mix, and finely shave some purple cabbage as an additional topping! so good! I do that for my pork carnitas. and now I am making Squirrelnitas!

  • @jeffreylocke8808
    @jeffreylocke8808 Рік тому +1

    Boil the squirrels after cleaning in salted water and do so till cooked. Remove and cool the squirrels. Remove the meat and then fry up in a skillet till brown. Fry some bacon and save the drippings to make gravy. Bake some biscuits and use the gravy made from bacon drippings and put the deboned squirrel into the gravy and simmer. Then put gravy and squirrel over split buttered biscuits.

  • @royrostjr1352
    @royrostjr1352 2 роки тому

    OMG it's making my mouth water it looks delicious

  • @kfred
    @kfred 2 роки тому

    Well done brother!

  • @matthoffman2411
    @matthoffman2411 2 роки тому

    Thanks for the awesome video.

  • @stevehaut6494
    @stevehaut6494 Рік тому

    It is great that your wife is part of your videos.

  • @harryhowell5644
    @harryhowell5644 2 роки тому

    My grandma would pressure cook fox squirrel, then serve it in a stew with wild rice.truely one of the best things I ever ate. We always just fried squirrel the day after Thanksgiving. We used a big deep fish fryer.

  • @rebeccacoffiel3866
    @rebeccacoffiel3866 2 роки тому +3

    My mom and dad ate squirrel all the time growing up but I’ve never tried it. I love your wife, she’s hilarious! This is a great video. Keep them coming!!!!

  • @michellemorgan6295
    @michellemorgan6295 2 роки тому

    Awesome thanks for the tips I like squirrel in brown gravy

  • @keithselzer9816
    @keithselzer9816 9 місяців тому

    That sure looked good. I grew up eating them. My mom would cook them like you did then make pot pie. And we would fry the young one's very tasty.

  • @rickycaudill3773
    @rickycaudill3773 2 роки тому

    Great video! You are the type of guy I’d like to break bread with. Good recipe too!

  • @gusdeleon3043
    @gusdeleon3043 2 роки тому

    Still on the fence about this but it sure looks good. Thanks for the vid!

  • @scotthilliard8406
    @scotthilliard8406 Рік тому

    Should do a video on how UA-cam has changed your life or made it better! People get paid for this and in this economy it can be a game changer. Love the videos.

  • @jeremyscott6048
    @jeremyscott6048 2 роки тому

    I live in northern Canada hunting squirrels in the woods here often, mostly my woods are pine trees and sandy dirt. Your woods look like you could be on the set of avatar or something. It looks like a completely different planet. Crazy.

  • @dfrancois5520
    @dfrancois5520 2 роки тому

    I've had lots of squirrel, but never in a taco, those looked really good. We mostly hunt them with dogs, but I've also done plenty of still hunting too.

  • @4reelz9999
    @4reelz9999 Рік тому

    Good video brother, we hunt fuzzy tails here in north Texas too. 👍👍

  • @megamattoutdoors4590
    @megamattoutdoors4590 2 роки тому

    Awesome video man. Definitely worth a try. I've done it the same way but made gravy and served over rice.

  • @savageater57
    @savageater57 2 роки тому

    Great video, I tend to "snipe" squirrels where I hunt since all the leaves are gone after deer season and they can see you a long way off and either run or hide so shots may be out to 100yds . The wife likes that receipe since she's a fan of carnitas .

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому

      Awesome sniping is definitely more challenging

    • @savageater57
      @savageater57 2 роки тому

      I shot one far enough out , by the time I got there I was looking around for the squirrel and saw a bobcat running off with it .

  • @RiseOrRelinquish
    @RiseOrRelinquish Рік тому

    Nice video. New to squirrel hunting here. Nice Boston as well. Looks just like mine

  • @sethsilverii590
    @sethsilverii590 Рік тому

    Will definitely be trying this recipe heck yeah!

  • @MrSrtman18
    @MrSrtman18 4 місяці тому

    Looked awesome.

  • @stevesproul3744
    @stevesproul3744 Рік тому

    Just subscribed to your channel and love it brother. It’s funny I live close to huntchef and pretty good friends. He makes awesome products

  • @elijahstonehan9566
    @elijahstonehan9566 Рік тому

    Great job.

  • @ammohead73
    @ammohead73 Рік тому

    I live in southern Ky, I've killed a lot of squirrels I love breakfast squirrel gravy, your recipe looks great!

  • @zachsmith8916
    @zachsmith8916 Рік тому

    It’s wild for me to see people squirrel hunt in a place like that. I squirrel hunt in West Virginia and seeing squirrels in palm trees and swamps together just seems so strange. Lol

  • @joeponder9668
    @joeponder9668 7 місяців тому

    Bro that looks amazing!!!

  • @oceandeepfishing4555
    @oceandeepfishing4555 2 роки тому

    Well next time I get some squirrels I'm going to give this a try. I just got a cast iron pot like you used in this video. The couple times before when I cook them they were really tuff.
    I haven't hunted in about 15 years but getting stuff together for next season. Might do some hog hunting this year went today to get some 3030 bullets but everyone was sold out where I went.
    Enjoyed your video..

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +1

      30-30 has been super hard to find! Thanks for watching

  • @ballistic350
    @ballistic350 2 роки тому +1

    Squirrels are good eating... you gotta try it with skin on steam in banana leaves with Asian spice n herbs

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +1

      I’d love to try that!

    • @ballistic350
      @ballistic350 2 роки тому

      @GoatRoper911 no burn the hair off like how u would on a pig scrape it clean.. UA-cam it cooking squirrels hmong style

  • @jeffreylocke8808
    @jeffreylocke8808 Рік тому

    When my dad taught me to squirrel hunt he would walk ahead and I would walk way behind and look up at the trees. Sure enough a squirrel would be coming around the tree as my dad walked ahead. I would shoot them as long as the squirrel was way up in the tree. Very effective tactic.

  • @madman61756
    @madman61756 2 місяці тому

    To all my fellow UA-cam small game chefs! The “brown bits on the bottom of the pan” is called FOND. We alllllllll love fond, we are all very fond of fond! Good one! It’s the base for almost every gravy and pan sauce out there.

  • @kentbaio4457
    @kentbaio4457 Рік тому

    Looks perfect to me I'd love to try out your fish dip keep up the pleasure I know you're cuz I enjoy watching

  • @williamcornelison4721
    @williamcornelison4721 2 роки тому

    I hunt to supply good meals for me and my wife, who for 30 plus years wouldn't eat game meat..... She took a taste of some venison steaks I was cooking on the Weber one day and that solved that problem.... Cheaper to hunt then buy meat at the store..... And I'm fishing more too.... Retirement life is getting better.. Carnitas sounds really good...

  • @JP-tc9fr
    @JP-tc9fr 2 роки тому

    Squirrel hunting takes you back to when you were just a little boy shootin every squirrel you seen.. Good video bud!

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +1

      I’ve never actually grown up! Lol

    • @JP-tc9fr
      @JP-tc9fr 2 роки тому

      @@TugTrashOutdoors I didn’t want to admit to that in my comment lol

  • @eldiony45360
    @eldiony45360 Рік тому

    Never wanted to eat squirrels till now
    Lol
    Tree chicken

  • @ikehayes
    @ikehayes Рік тому

    My Brother anybody ever tell you you look like Kevin James (Paul Blart) 😂😂🤣 Great content Brother

  • @alanbecker3791
    @alanbecker3791 2 роки тому

    I absolutely love squirrel I'm going to have to try it like this

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому +1

      Nice to mix it up a little!

    • @alanbecker3791
      @alanbecker3791 2 роки тому

      I normally make it with brown gravy over rice or squirrels and dumplings mmmmm

  • @saltlifejayfishingchannel
    @saltlifejayfishingchannel 2 роки тому +1

    Them tacos 🌮 look good

  • @SubZerov67
    @SubZerov67 Рік тому

    Such a cool place to be. It looks like jurassic park or something.

  • @karinbrantner3081
    @karinbrantner3081 2 роки тому

    You two are such a cute couple!

  • @mattmatthew2440
    @mattmatthew2440 2 роки тому

    I like mine with onion and bacon, everglades season, wrapped in foil,slow cooked on a grill,wabbit good to like that.

  • @jamessmith5905
    @jamessmith5905 Рік тому

    Hell yeah cuz! Just subscribed

  • @suttonsplash14
    @suttonsplash14 4 місяці тому

    Would have liked a little more on the review at the end there! Recipe looks fire 🔥🔥🔥

  • @DavidHernandez-yj3ie
    @DavidHernandez-yj3ie 4 місяці тому

    Looks delicious!

  • @LD.Walker
    @LD.Walker 2 роки тому

    I grew up on fried squirrel and squirrel and dumplings. Rabbit is fine eating and can be made into carnitas tacos, just fried, or rabbit and dumplings.

  • @4reelz9999
    @4reelz9999 Рік тому

    Luv how u put squirrel her pouch instead of urs. 😆

  • @chinchinz2756
    @chinchinz2756 2 роки тому

    Man I have never seen someone cook squirrel like this I already know it tasted good. You should do some more recipes with squirrels sense alot of ppl dont really know how to cook them.

  • @surviveitforbeginner
    @surviveitforbeginner 2 роки тому

    Great video

  • @jimeckenrode1271
    @jimeckenrode1271 Рік тому

    The 22LR , Remington 552 speedmaster. awesome gun.

  • @misfiregamecalls9054
    @misfiregamecalls9054 2 роки тому

    Ummm, I am going to need the GPS coordinates for those turkeys :)
    Good job on the video, made me hungry

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  2 роки тому

      No problem! They were right between Jacksonville and Daytona! Lol thanks for watching and commenting. New video dropped later today!!

  • @mattwilliams2857
    @mattwilliams2857 2 роки тому

    Your in my neck of the woods… great small game hunting

  • @corollaae8645
    @corollaae8645 Рік тому

    Man that looks good!

  • @Veemack21
    @Veemack21 2 роки тому +1

    Ahahah all you haters😂😂 I feel you people were so ready to talk trash. Great video!

  • @goesfisherman
    @goesfisherman Рік тому

    That looks great!! If you were hurting for time to get it done fast, After braising. Put in a InstaPot and it will be done and tinder in around 30 minutes.

  • @steveperry-d3q
    @steveperry-d3q Рік тому

    Watching you hunt tree rats now we are at club now doing same we have on grill will try your way next GA