Old military recipe books routinely hadwild game recipes like cooking a porcupine. I PROMISEyou that if you prepare it once, your family won'tknow the difference and be happy to eatit, and they are not hard to whomp upside their head or body. What could be easier?

Lay some snares on a squirrel run by propping up a branch aftrer descenting your hands with soil and peppermint or sumac berry tea. They will fall for it routinely, but you need that meat hammer or else you got to slow cook them...so they are tender. All that activity makes their meat chewy.