To feed the kids rabbit...

[ReallyTired]

Cost of food is soring so as an experiment I have bought a rabbit. The meat is cheaper than other meats and I think the welfare standards are higher. The animal has been shot in the hertfordshire countryside so has had a better life than many farm animals.

Dh thinks I am wierd to eat rabbit. He thinks its like eating a pet rabbit. My children are completely carnivorous and seem fairly happy to eat rabbit.

The only dilema is what the best way is to cook rabbit.

Wrapped in Parma ham and baked in the oven.

Rabbit is tasty :)
I cook it like chicken.
It's not a pet unless it had a name. I don't eat things I've named.

YANBU.

Rabbit is delicious and up until the 1940s would have been a very common meat source for most of us. Same with mutton. They're out of fashion, doesn't mean they aren't delicious.

Would much rather eat a hunted rabbit than a miserable battery chicken.

It'd be cheaper and more ethical to go veggie.... just saying.

Nigel Slater has a lovely rabbit and tarragon recipe.

can't say i'm impressed!

soak it first, its too strong.

and...

i'll feed my rabbits some kids. that'll be fair.

YANBU - if you are going to eat meat it makes no difference what the meat is sheep, cow, rabbit, dog....

I saw rabbit in the butchers today, although I didn't clock the price. How much is it?

I like a nice rabbit pie. I'm over 50 and remember rabbit being common on menus.

Your DH is the one BU. Poor cows and chickens that he's discriminated against. Meat is meat. I agree the welfare of animals is the only issue.

Dumplings and a tomatoe and onion stew.

and it will give you something to complain to the school about... i was wondering where you'd find something.

I couldn't cos I have two. Wouldn't feel right

But hey, whatever you fancy it's up to you :)

yes there is a lovely Italian casserole recipe with olives...
roadkill rabbit was the best meat I ever ate...
as long as your children do not have pet rabbits themselves.
Once my nephew left his pet rabbit at his granny's house and she ate it

I've never eaten it, but why not?

I find this squeamishness about some meat but not others slightly strange.

And if it's a wild rabbit that's been shot, that's about as ethical as you can get as a meat eater.

I paid £4.99 for a whole rabbit. It was a wild rabbit shot on a farm near Sarrat. The animal's body has been gutted and cleaned.

Prehaps its not quite as cheap as the tesco value battery chickens, but there is quite a bit of meat on it. I imagine that it will feed my family for several meals.

I'm thinking of trying this recipe

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/19871/rabbit-stew.aspx

honest-food.net/wild-game/rabbit-hare-squirrel-recipes/

I'm with Riot. Pets have names. Gonna eat it don't name it :)

if you are hungry enough, you'll eat anything.

eyeing up the pensioner next door< grin

We make rabbit stew. It's yummy. Keep any stock for risottos and the such like.

Nice casseroled with rosemary and garlic and a bit of white wine.

Or a pie defo.

Oh meant to say. There can be a lot of little bones so warn the kids or cut up carefully.

£4.99 I get them in the skins for free or £2.00 for a cleaned and gutted one.

They're for the dogs in this house though - nowt wrong with them, I just don't like the taste and texture.

I did it for Christmas dinner a couple of years back, stuffed it, then wrapped in prosciutto and roasted.
Delicious.