does anyone here eat rabbit?

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are rabbits farmed? in the same way chickens/sheep etc are

yum!

Ive seen them hanging from butchers stalls on markets, skinned. They reminded me of giant embryos.

something s jsut aren't appealing looking - like escargot, but if you get past that...

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage Meat Book) says butchers sell both wild and farmed so you should check; also that in supermarkets they should be labelled as wild or farmed but if they don't say wild or have warnings about lead shot you should assume farmed. I think his point is that people don't realise how much farmed rabbit is sold in this country.

We had rabbit stew for the first time last night! We got ours from our local organic farm shop, wild rabbit that the farmer had shot on friday night, it was skinned, gutted and headless.
It was tasty, not as strong tasting as I thought it would be, fairly chewy (we decided it must have been fairly old) but not horribly tough if you know what I mean. There seemed to be loads of meat on it, in fact some is left over for tonights dinner. My DH even fried up the heart, liver and kidneys with some bacon and I don't normally eat offal but it was actually quite tasty on some lettuce with a bit of balsamic vinegar.
My DH nearly didn't fancy it though as he cooked it and he said it was a little bit too much like cooking a cat! But he managed it in the end.

so do you have to cook it for quite long?

think it's similar temp to chicken, 1 1/2 hrs depends on recipe, I do mine jugged

which is a slower cook in port

I think we did our stew for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, we weren't sure how old the rabbit was so cooked it for a bit longer just in case. I think if it's a younger rabbit you don't need to cook it as long.

I do, when i can get it. The rabbits round here are NOT farmed, AFAIK, they are 'potted'

we get rabbit from our neighbour who shoots them for farmers. We take in parcels for him (his wife buys lots from bid-up TV) and he brings us rabbits from time to time. Delicious

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farm shop doesnt sell rabbit

at leat not online

will have to go and ask

do i tell dds they are eating rabbit? i think theyd cry....