Back to one of my all-time favourite Italian cookery books, Marcella Cucina, last night: I decided to make this dish of rabbit with peppers and I must say it turned out very well. For this you peel the peppers without grilling or roasting them first, so you need unknobbly ones, and they should melt into the sauce. I'm not convinced they all did, but it's definitely a dish I'll be making again. You are supposed to put a very small chilli pepper in but I used this chilli pepper spray [because I wanted to try it out] instead and I think it was successful. Here's my latest cookery motto: "Half is accuracy, half slapdash and you can serve it with panache". Yes, well - better stop for tonight!
13 comments:
:) I like your motto.
Kind of, too much precision, spolis the flair.
Ciao, Crushed. Yes, following a recipe exactly spoils the fun!
There is no way I could eat rabbit, they are far too cuddly. We have a pet bunny called Reg, I would be thinking of him all the time.
Hi Welshcakes, I too ,could not eat Rabbit, we have a gorgeous pet Bun called Rocket, (by name and nature) the greatest escapeologist since Houdini ! He is 7 years old and leads a very sedentary life, munching his way through my garden shrubs and herbs.
Should he "snuff it" tomorrow, sure, he would make a lovely dinner, but, Oh No! he`s one of our babies.
Now Im a grown up, I just cant stomach rabbit. It was a food greatly used in the depression, and my mother also cooked it on poor weeks ..Its not for any moral reason, its just not to my taste.
In Australia it is no longer common, although in the wild they were given a virus as they were in plague proportions..
I love rabbit ~ but especially if I get to do the whole show, you know ~ shoot, butcher, prepare, cook and serve, but then that is the same for me for most meat. I like to be able to know where it has come from and how it has been killed, and I enjoy each part of the process. Perhaps it's growing up on a farm.
They are a much underrated animal to hunt ~ every bit as intelligent as the 'posher' game animals such as the various deer species, especially when you consider that they are often on land that is only really safe for stuff like (proper) air rifles or .22lr, that often means stalking them up to close (35 - 50 yard) distances.
I don't understand people not being able to eat them because they are 'cute', why aren't chickens cute? Our latest cockerel is an amazing creature, and the last sow we had was positively beautiful ~ I didn't have a problem turning her into bacon, ham and mince when the time came. Doesn't mean I didn't respect her as an animal, quite the opposite. I guess I can understand, although not agree, with the whole vegan thing, but anything else, I just don't get at all. Like cheese? WTF do you think happens to the 50% of calves that are male, etc etc. Isn't it just misplaced sentimentality? Perhaps I'm being harsh.
Now, back to the rabbit ~ do you soak yours in milk for a bit first Welshcakes? I tend to now, but then my latest shoots are very 'herby', and even the young ones can be a bit gamey ~ unless I'm marinading them in tandoori spices. Talking of which, have you ever eaten squirrel? Now that's an underrated game animal...
I like that cookbook too. Not so fond of rabbit though, so maybe I could use chicken instead. That's me not following the recipe!
I have just read that you fell. Are you alright?
We used to eat rabbit often when I was a child. It must have been more PC then than it is now.
Hi, ellee. I knew you'd say that and nearly put "Ellee - don't read" at the top of the post! I can understand, though. you, too, true blue - I couldn't eat an animal I'd kept as a pet. Hi, Abbey. that's interesting. I didn't know it had been regarded as a food of the poor there. Very interesting, HH. I couldn't do the butchery or eat anything that had been a pet but I do think it's all a bit hypocritical if you eat meat at all. I would like to be veggie on principle but I'm not ao I just try not to think of how the animal was killed. Here rabbits and chickens are displayed in butcher's with the head and the butcher gives me a funny look when I say I don't want it! I hate looking at the heads. Rabbit is very popular here and, cooked in a different way, is a speciality of Modica. I didn't soak it in milk this time, but in white wine vinehar and water.
Hi, jmb. Yes, I should think you could do this dish with chicken, too. You wouldn't need to do the soaking stage. Hi, eurodog. I'm fine now, thanks. I hadn't realised how non-PC rabbit seems to have become in the UK, judging from these comments. Ps, HH: I got similar comments when I posted about veal - but it's so popular here.
I'm one of your ardent readers and like you am a food enthusiast. Pepper spray? I'm fascinated by that. The only pepper spray I know of is the sort used to ward off possible intruders. Are there other flavored sprays? Is it an oil based spray? Here we do have olive oil spray,olive oil and garlic spray,butter spray, but the primary purpose of those are to eliminate those dastardly calories with only the hope of imparting flavor. I am always looking for new ways to spice up my foods.
I throughly appreciate your sharing these wonderfull dishes with us. I would love to try this rabbit recipe, however rabbit is not generally sold here. Our loss. I used to eat it almost weekly when I lived in Morocco.
By the way, my origines are Sicilian and my mother's maiden name was...coniglio.
First catch your rabbit, Welshcakes.
Hello, yborchild. So glad you like my blog. The pepper spray contains only "natural chilli extract" according to the ingredients list on the wrapper. anyway, it worked! I haven't seen any other spices in this form but will blog about it if I do. You could always try the rabbit recipe with chicken, like jmb. Interesting to know you have Italian ancestry and that your mum's name was"coniglio"!
Good evening, your randiness. - Or your alligator!
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