Revenge is a dish best served with Burgoo

 

My squirrel foe has struck again.  I previously recounted how he heartlessly threw my baby tomatoes to their deaths.  A couple of weeks ago he went further, digging up a now-barren tomato plant and leaving it lying on the ground. When I went out on the deck he was actually watching from a nearby railing, no doubt to enjoy my reaction. So I ignored him, naturally.  Apparently that was the wrong thing to do.  Last week he ripped out some basil.  I defiantly replanted it, only to be greeted by this scene the following day:

 

 

But here's what he doesn't know.  I have a friend who is writing a cookbook on the Kentucky stew known as Burgoo.  I've promised to help her with the research.  And what, you may ask, is the main ingredient of said stew? 

 

Squirrel.