bunny masala

Mrs Fox

the beer revolu wrote: »

I love wild rabbit but it does take quite a bit of cooking to get it tender (apart from the saddles which I like to take off like fillets and quickly pan fry).

Stewed with beer and mustard is my favourite way.

I've always eaten rabbit but have only cooked it once, thanks to your guidance, although I did replace beer for cider as I'm not a fan of beer-tasting food. It was delicious indeed.

Day Lewin

It is one of the tastiest and healthiest meats. And if wild, can be guaranteed organic and lean. But can be very hard to find in Dublin.
There's a couple of places round Dun Laoghaire where you can get it but you might have to pick out the shotgun pellets!

Tarzana2

katemarch wrote: »

It is one of the tastiest and healthiest meats.

Don't know about healthiest. It's very lean, and I subscribe to the idea that a lot of fat in meat is a good, healthy, unfairly-maligned thing. :pac:

Day Lewin

@Tarzana, agreed.

"Tasty and healthy" is one phrase, "organic and lean" another. All are likely to apply to wild rabbit, but none necessarily implies any of the others!

Neyite

katemarch wrote: »

I've always thought it was interesting that they could not really allow themselves to actually taste the meat of the rabbit or appreciate its authentic flavour: the associations of poverty, scarcity, and hardship were too strong.

I know some country folk that feel similarly about any kind of fish or shellfish. It's just been drummed into them for decades that it was eaten for penance or punishment. So they think I'm bonkers when I order fish in a restaurant or opt for it at a wedding - like why do I bother getting dolled up and going out just to eat fish?? :pac:

Tarzana2

Neyite wrote: »

like why do I bother getting dolled up and going out just to eat fish?? :pac:

I get like that when people order pasta in a fancy restaurant. Why would you bother, like? :pac: But I really dislike pasta so can't get past that.

Neyite

Tarzana2 wrote: »

I get like when people order pasta in a fancy restaurant. Why would you bother, like? :pac: But I really dislike pasta so can't get past that.

I agree in a way. I like to eat stuff in a restaurant that I'd never usually go to the bother of cooking, or stuff that isn't usually on sale within my grocery budget. I cook pasta all the time so wouldn't normally be something that catches my eye in a restaurant.

Tarzana2

Neyite wrote: »

I agree in a way. I like to eat stuff in a restaurant that I'd never usually go to the bother of cooking, or stuff that isn't usually on sale within my grocery budget. I cook pasta all the time so wouldn't normally be something that catches my eye in a restaurant.

Yeah, it just seems a waste. Though not if someone is having pasta with crab or lobster or something.

Day Lewin

Pasta with Crabbit. The ultimate why-bother? dish.

Whispered

What's crabbit?

Day Lewin

Whispered wrote: »

What's crabbit?

A fictional hybrid of Crab and Rabbit. (On pasta!)

Diamond Doll

katemarch wrote: »

A fictional hybrid of Crab and Rabbit. (On pasta!)

Crabbasta!

Alun

katemarch wrote: »

A fictional hybrid of Crab and Rabbit. (On pasta!)

One of these then ...

http://www.artflakes.com/en/products/a-crabbit-crab-slash-rabbit-hybrid

kylith

Neyite wrote: »

I agree in a way. I like to eat stuff in a restaurant that I'd never usually go to the bother of cooking, or stuff that isn't usually on sale within my grocery budget. I cook pasta all the time so wouldn't normally be something that catches my eye in a restaurant.

My mum refuses to have pasta in a restaurant because 'Sure you can get a kilo of Roma spaghetti for a pound in Tesco'.