We have a rabbit!

[conuly]

Yeah, it's sitting in our freezer right now, waiting to be cooked :)

Our local supermarket is *so weird*, oscillating wildly between "basic of the basic supermarkets" and "lots of exotic and fancy foods"... but then, we are, as I've said, basically at the intersection of a number of small ethnic neighborhoods, so that does largely explain it. (Still not sure how we explain away the resident sparrows....) So when I saw they had rabbits for sale again I passed the idea by my Bonne-maman and picked one up for dinner next week.

Anybody got a good rabbit recipe, now?

Comments

[sayga.livejournal.com]

I learned from Warner Brothers that you're just supposed to put a rabbit in a cauldron of hot water and add some carrots and potatoes.

[conuly]

Do you skin the rabbit first? Or kill it, even?

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Of course you don't skin it. You just put it in there and it will take a bath and whistle a few tunes.

[tungol.livejournal.com]

The closest thing I have to a rabbit recipe are some notes from when my mom and I attempted to make something approximating Sam Gamgee's rabbit stew as it should have been (i.e., if the ingredients he wished for had been available). It turned out quite well. The instructions are rather vague, though, and don't include quantities.


Brown rabbit pieces in oil (as you would fried chicken) in heavy, deep pot.
Add:
Water or stock
Herbs (bay leaves, thyme, sage, parsley, etc. - bunch)
Onion (quartered or so)
Potatoes (peeled and quartered or chopped as desired)
Carrots (peeled and chopped in 2-3 inch slices or as desired)
Turnip (as opposed to rutabaga) (peeled and chopped in 2-3 inch slices or as desired)
Salt (add near half-way done point)
[Presumably boil until everything is done, but the not-quite-recipe doesn't even say that.]

Based on The Two Towers, Book 4, Chapter 4, of The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[conuly]

The fact that you took this from Tolkein is so geeky. Although I suppose hobbits do know how to cook. (I never could get into LotR, but I try not to admit it too loudly.)

[tungol.livejournal.com]

:-)

I once combed through the Lord of the Rings noting down all the references to food, and the rabbit stew was certainly one of the most detailed food-related passages.

I love LotR a lot, but I accept that other people don't.

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

Put in crock pot with salt and pepper and a cup or two of water on high until falling apart, like, 6or so hours. Of course, that's what I'd do with a whole chicken too. Did, actually, last week. MMMM.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Rabbit. Onions. Red wine. Spuds. Carrort. Parsnip. Boquet Garni. Stock.
Brown rabbit, caramilize onions. use the pot you're gonna cook in this adds flavour. Add everything else. Cook it up, and take pot luck.

[liannas-mom.livejournal.com]

Yummy!
Hasenfeffer is a family favorite for getting the good rabbity taste- I like this recipe http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Hasenfeffer-Sour-Rabbit-Stew/Detail.aspx -but I add a few spoonfuls of sour cream and serve it with egg noodles. My personal favorite is sweet and sour rabbit with veggies over chow mein type noddles- but you don't really taste the rabbity rabbit taste. Baked rabbit- any chicken recipe you can substitute rabbit into.
Just be careful is cooking.
Cooking tip- I find that the younger rabbits tend to be very sensitive to overcooking and the meat can get mushy.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

If you still need recipes, check out a Julia Child book. The French know all about eating rabbits. I can't recall whether I've ever eaten rabbit, but if not, I want to try it.