Posted on 04/19/2019 3:46:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
I was saying to my husband that I wanted to post a thread for Easter, but didn't know what to post. He said, "A rabbit recipe!" My husband's father raised rabbits, and the family grew up eating them.
I said that I didn't think that would be exactly appropriate to the season; and Husband said, "It'll be funny!"
So, here's a compromise: a pretty Bunny Cake - I think Liz has posted this or something very like it before - and from Epicurious, 'Rabbit Cacciatore' from Ischia in Italy. (If you're like me and averse to eating actual Bunny, Chicken Cacciatore is wonderful):
https://www.landolakes.com/recipe/21354/spring-garden-cake/
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/rabbit-cacciatore-106480
-JT
Love the bunny cake! Wishing you and yours a very happy Easter!
Meat rabbits are on my list of things to raise once I move onto my farm.
I’d love to test out different diets and see which one results in the best flavor. There were a couple of times I caught a rabbit in my parents’ backyard, and the meat had this natural sweet flavor, like there was a ton of sugar in the marinade, even though there wasn’t any marinading involved. I would love to know what made that taste, so I can replicate it. I know it wasn’t the rabbit itself, because rabbit meat from the store didn’t have that.
I have a bunch of animal nutrition textbooks to help with the diet plans.
Ever see “Night of the Lepus”?
Adorable!
Split pea and ham, the secret ingredient is dry sherry. :)
Beats the h*** out of lentils!
mm mm mmmmm
I don’t know much about livestock diet; but I wonder if it could have to do with the time of year you caught the wild ones and what they’d been feeding on.
That’s what I like about getting the ham with the bone in it. Makes the BEST split pea soup!
yuppers
That ham bone makes excellent red, pinto or navy bean soups, also.
Happy Easter to you, dear Liz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My grandmother used to make wonderful navy bean soup whenever we had a ham bone left over. My husband makes a great one with hamhocks.
No bunnies on the menu as they have been running across our back yard, being chased by our Swedish Vallhunds. So far, the bunnies have made it to the other side.
This is a variation of Chicken Marbella. We had this for dinner last night. I cut down the brown sugar to about 1 tbsp. Prunes are sweet enough for me.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/pork-marbella
I served it with Yotam Ottolenghis Baked Rice, with fresh asparagus on the side.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018124-baked-rice
And for dessert: another Yotam recipe
https://ottolenghi.co.uk/sweet-and-salty-cheesecake-with-cherries-and-crumble-shop
Love the cake!!
I love egg salad. :)
Sounds delicious!
What do you put in your egg salad?
With 8-12 eggs, all of the following are to taste:
Mayo
Celery seeds
a pinch of cayenne pepper
Black pepper
a teaspoon of vinegar
a pinch of paprika
:)
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