Rabbit ideas

[windy]

Anyone got any good bunny recipes? Gettin fed up of stewin and curryin em. Ive managed to get an old fashioned mincer, so was contemplatin havin a bash at Bunny Burgers. ( I apologize to the veggies among us...but I can have as many rabbits for free as my 3 hungry spawns can eat, so not to be sniffed at )

[Vajk]

( I apologize to the veggies among us...

Never apologize for eating the diet nature intended you to. We have sharp teeth for a reason. We are naturally hunters and omnivores.

We respect the rights of 'veggies' to eat what they so desire, and they should in return do the same.

It all boils down to what can be termed as 'natural rights'. Namely, Someone's rights end where another person's starts. It's the foundation of all of our laws and the foundation of the Magna Carta, British Common Law, and the US Constitution.

So, eat bunnies and enjoy, and never apologize or feel 'guilty'. You are doing NOTHING wrong.

(And I can say this freely, as I was a vegetarian in my youth, as well as heavily pro-environmental)

[windy]

Great recipe, thanks Susie Will defo have a go at it.....

Vajk - I've never quite got over the uproar that I caused by leavin a bunny carcass in the fridge at work for a colleague.....something akin to if I'd admitted to eatin me own kids

[jim]

Dear Windy,

Devilled rabbit (what we had Sunday evening!)

1 rabbit jointed, (4 legs, 2 bits of body)
4oz streaky bacon diced.
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 handful garden herbs
1 lb mixed, carrot, turnip, swede.
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 tsp Worcester sauce
1tblsp chutney
1 glass water 1 glass red wine
1 oz flour
1/4 pt milk

Fry bacon 'til fat is running then brown rabbit joints.
Throw in onion & garlic and soften
Add mixed veg
Add garden herbs (I used thyme, rosemary and a couple of bay leaves) and stir in.
Add mustard powder and stir.
Mix water, wine, sauce and chutney then pour in and cover.
Casserole for an hour, check it hasn't dried. depending on age of rabbit another 1/2 hour and a little more liquid might be needed.
Add milk to flour slowly, making sure that it is all assimilated. Add to pan and heat until suace thickens.

We had this with new potatoes and fresh bread. As there are only 2 of us now, it made it to Monday night too when the flavours had developed!

Enjoy ....

Love and Peace
Jim

[Zaf]

I'm veggie but still cook meat for OH (as well as plucking/skinning/cleaning and dressing almost anything that comes our way free or very cheap!), my bunny recipe is rather hit and miss but usually involves a casserole of cider, celery and carrots.

I used to 'grow' our own poultry, pigs and sheep and have kept goats and a housecow for milk till I turned veggie (and got older and not wanting to struggle out in the snow to feed and/or milk couple of times a day!) and I still process any wild food brought into me for OH and really object to being classed as a weird veggie!!

the only people that really irritate me are those that treat veggies like weirdos and only buy meat nicely packaged from the supermarkets without any idea of the process of getting it there, it never ceases to amaze me how many people that use milk dont realise that a cow has to have a calf to do so, many of which are shot at birth as they are an unwanted byproduct of the milk industry.

oops sorry, mini rant over

[gdb]

sorry cant help.

but there was a little restaurant in france that used to cook them something wonderful...

only 10€ (about 8 quid) for five courses (five!) including all the wine you could drink.

sometimes i wonder why i moved here....

[Vajk]

Rabbit recipe:

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:D

[windy]

Oops sorry Vajk...that went right over me head like an aeroplane

Fab recipes there guys, excellent!!! It was gettin to the point where I was lyiin to the spawns.. 'rabbit??? No, is it 'eck! It's beef

[Vajk]

Binary. It says "First... catch a rabbit". ;)

[Cloud]

Binary. It says "First... catch a rabbit". ;)

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

(ps. it actually a coma, not an ellipsis, after the first word - assuming you're using ASCII)

[windy]

Lol to both of you!!! Feel like Ive stumbled into University Challenge 'ere

Starter for 10; no conferring

[frozenthunderbolt]

Spatchcock the rabbit, rub with oil, pierce and fill with rosemary and garlic, sprinkle with salt.
Roast in a slow oven for several hours.
Yum.
Also try rabbit l'orange - instead of duck

[Eigon]

Elizabeth David had a very good recipe for rabbit - but having it every Thursday night for over a year.... Let's just say I haven't eaten it since!

[Cloud]

I'd love to try rabbit again - I remember eating it as a child - but I've not seen it for sale. How does one get rabbit meat these days, other than road kill (some of the roads I drive through have bunnies everywhere, but I don't like the idea of eating part flattened bunny). Supermarkets don't sell the meat it and I don't remember our local butcher ever having it openly available.

[windy]

I get mine from a mate who shoots em on his land.There's hundreds of the things tunnelling through his Cornish Hedges...and more to come - they breed like rabbits!