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Sunday, February 28. 2016

Rabbit is delicious

I have never hunted rabbits (Beagles are the rabbit dog), but most supermarkets and butchers have rabbit. Rabbit is usually braised. I like the Italian ways, with or without tomato but preferably without.  Tomato overpowers all other flavors in my view so it's best avoided unless raw and from the garden.


I'd like to try this Spanish recipe too: Braised Rabbit with garlic.


Rabbits are made to be prolific and delicious, the bottom of the food chain to feed everything else.


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 14:19 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Agree 100%. Hunted rabbits with beagles as a kid in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. And we ate what we killed. It was great winter sport and we had long snowy winters.
#1 rocdoctom on 2016-02-28 16:15 (Reply)
Didn't need no steekeen beagles in central IL. Bolt action 20 gauge. Just kicked them up. Dusted with flour and fried.
#1.1 Sven Svenson on 2016-02-29 09:42 (Reply)
We like rabbit, too, but the local grocery store isn't reliable about keeping it in stock.
#2 Texan99 on 2016-02-28 18:59 (Reply)
Sautéed rabbit with mushrooms, wild rice, covered with a mustard cream sauce.
#3 Mark M. on 2016-02-28 20:03 (Reply)
The Portuguese also do up rabbit well. Coelho à caçadora
#4 chasmatic (Link) on 2016-02-28 21:47 (Reply)
Excellent! Have a few potential haussenpefferers running around our property which I have threatened to convert to casseroles. Not good timing now, will persuade better half to set out the traps next fall.
#5 Frances on 2016-02-28 23:07 (Reply)
Hunt rabbit? As in go looking for them?

All I need to do is plant some lettuce and sit on the deck with a .22.
#6 NJSoldier on 2016-02-29 07:51 (Reply)
Never partial to rabbit, squirrel or any other rodent. Always suspected the meat had rodent origins at the Chinese places in Panama and Paramaribo when I used to fly Central/South Am.
#7 BillH on 2016-02-29 09:35 (Reply)
rabbits aren't rodents. they are lagamorphs.

although they do tend to carry tularemia.
#7.1 fjord on 2016-02-29 11:18 (Reply)
Well, after 12 years of college and eight decades of discovery, I learned something new today. Thanks.
#7.1.1 BillhH on 2016-02-29 16:04 (Reply)
The BBC program QI had a bit on rabbit starvation in one of their episodes. Not the rabbits starving. The people eating copious amounts of rabbit, to the exclusion of other things, were starving because rabbit is lacking in some key nutrients and the consumption of rabbit was actually pulling those missing nutrients out of their systems. Though just eating vegetables along with the rabbit would have been enough to prevent this, I think the rabbit eaters were trappers who didn't have a ready supply of veg.
#8 BlogDog on 2016-02-29 17:53 (Reply)
I hunted rabbits in Alaska and my hunting buddy showed me an easy way to clean them. He would slit their belly open, cut around the anus, pull the esophagus loose and then holding it by the rear legs he would whip it down between his legs flinging the guts out behind him. I liked hunting with him because like the character in Catch-22 he was paranoid and feared the bears. He carried a .308 rifle for bear and a .22 for rabbits. I had a .357 but most people believed that was inadequate to deter a angry bear. Anyway a rabbit is easy to clean, skin and cook especially over a campfire. Good eats.

When I was a kid one of our neighbors raised rabbits for food. He was an immigrant from Poland I think. He raised a lot of rabbits in a small space and ate rabbit a couple times a week. I would love to raise rabbits for food but I'm away from home so much I just can't do it.
#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-02-29 20:59 (Reply)

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