How you cook a squirrel all depends on how old the squirrel is. Old squirrels are tough as leather and need to be boiled to tenderize them while young squirrels are ready for a pot or pan right after cleaning. You'll know if you need to boil one when you skin it. If it's hard to pull the skin off, it needs to be boiled. Young squirrels sometimes pull in two when skinning because they're so tender.

When I skin and clean squirrels I leave the rear legs together and leave the back with them all the way to the bottom rib like a saddle of frog legs. There's a good bit of backstrap meat on the back. I haven't eaten a squirrel head/brains since I was a kid but there's a good bit of meat on the head too.

A few years ago, a man I know got sick. He went all over the country seeing doctors, trying to find out what was wrong with him. They determined that he had something similar to mad cow disease, contracted from eating squirrel brains. It killed him, so eat them squirrel brains if you want.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/29/us/ken...els-brains.html

yeah i'd like to try squirrel brains as well, and probably would once. won't make a habit of it myself.