mamoru: Aside from the rabbit liver mousse, that sounds really delicious. :D

If you're not into liver, you may want to avoid the terrine, since terrines and pates traditionally contain liver.

And frankly, I don't know what the big deal is... except that the yokels out in Arizona must only eat meat commonly found at bubba's BBQ. Rabbit is a pretty standard dish and they are preparing them in provincial stylings that include some traditional charcuterie.

Probably too cultured for them to deal with.

mamoru: Ah, I see. I blame my uncultured self for not knowing or investigating what a "terrine" actually was.

Well, regardless, I'd probably give it, and the liver mousse as well, a try and see how it tastes. Everything else sounds really delicious, though. :D

Funny how you'd call yourself "uncultured" for not knowing what a terrine is... since terrines, pates, confits and hams (prosciutto) were all items that arose on the farmstead as a way of using and preserving cheap throw-away cuts and scraps of meat. Terrines, pates and confits can last in a fridge or cellar for weeks, a ham for a year or more.

Now days these things are considered upscale. Hell, here in SF even cheap grain dishes like polenta and quinoa are getting served at "upscale" joints at $16 a plate and up. But, you'd be hard pressed to find them at lower rent establishments.

And by all means, don't shy way from offal like liver. There's a reason these types of dishes have stuck around for hundreds of years and across continents. When done well, they are quite a delicacy. Who knows... one day you might even work yourself up to ordering up something like this^

I prefer to eat Lamb on Easter, it just feels more sacrilegious, considering that Jesus was the Lamb of God and all that.

Rabbit is a controversial menu item in the US? Really?

Iron Chef Scottish: Rabbit is a controversial menu item in the US? Really?

yes.

I love liver. I'll start to crave it after a while. I love eating rabbit. But I've never thought to try rabbit liver. This guy's food sounds delish.

You know, the sad part about that O'Connell woman is her obsession with rabbits. I've raised and been around them before. They aren't great pets. They Sh*t constantly, hump constantly, and smell like piss no matter how clean you keep the cage. So she just need to stfu about how we shouldn't eat the cuddly uddly wuddly little things. I'm a vegetarian, and she makes me want to go eat a rabbit raw.

In germany, among easter themed sweets in the supermarket, was a delightful pack of fondant and marshmallow fried eggs.

Which was awesome.

Holy farking not knowing what "hipster" means, batman.

Cafe Boa is just your run of the mill upscale joint.

"People just don't realize what wonderful pets rabbits are," said Doreen O'Connell, a volunteer at Brambly Hedge Rabbit Rescue in Phoenix.

Listen lady, lemme tell you about my poor pet Bessie

If I didn't know this was hasenpfeffer, I'd swear it was carrots.

FTFA: "They're just the sweetest pets, so good-natured and funny and loving. And like any pet owner, when you see that on a menu you think how could somebody take my sweet pet and slaughter it and eat it?"

Hey stupid, cows are a lot sweeter than rabbits. I know, I've raised, named, hugged, and eventually slaughtered and eaten them.

I hear pigs are even better pets than cows. I've got some of both in my tummy right now.

Also WTF does Jeebus have to do with a rabbit? Rabbits and Spring are an old-world pagan/fertility thing. Now a lamb I could see pissing people off. Nobody called Jeebus the "rabbit of god".

Is there a shortage of rabbits or something? Whats the big deal? I mean, the only reason we don't eat people is because it tastes lousy.

I'll have the Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and rabbit.

You know, I was going to find a picture of Glenn Close and put "approves" under it, but you know what? F*ck it. I approve of this. Besides, it's the last time you can eat rabbit safely. Winter kills off the sick ones, and there will soon be more. Not that AZ has winter, I guess.

I could go for everything on that list.

True story: One Easter my family was camping, and early that morning I found a dead rabbit not far from the campsite. Of course I had to drag my little brother (who believed in the Easter Bunny) over to see it.

Me: "Well, little bro, looks like Easter's been called off!"

Him: "BLAAAAAWWWW!!!"

Oh, did I ever catch hell for that. As penance my parents made me take him for a walk so they could hide eggs.

Of course, I then told him we were on a spying mission, so we went around a sand dune and spied on my folks hiding the eggs, further destroying a happy childhood fiction.

/ why yes, I *was* a total bastard of an older brother... Why do you ask?

// It's in the older brother contract.

All these posts and no killer rabbit?
Fark sure has changed...


Also, rabbit in a mustard sauce is farking brilliant.
Eat rabbit,there isn't going to be a shortage. They breed like, well, rabbits.

Wow, this much reaction over rabbit meat?

You can get them in the majority of butchers in the UK (although Waitrose is the only supermarket that does them I believe). During WW2 when meat was heavily rationed, rabbit meat became pretty popular.

They're so lean they'll actively suck fat out of your body when digesting (provided you don't eat it with a fatty food or sauce). A diet with Rabbit as the only meat can actually be fatal (the more rabbit you eat, the quicker you die).

Animal rights activists really don't help their own cause. I would've become vegetarian years before I did if it weren't for their preachy smugness.

yes, I'm vegetarian now, but I don't care what other people eat. If I actually like somebody, I recommend they only eat actual cuts of meat and nothing ground up because they hide disgusting stuff in sausage and that sort of stuff. But if you like it, it's none of my business. Enjoy.

abigsmurf: Wow, this much reaction over rabbit meat?

You can get them in the majority of butchers in the UK (although Waitrose is the only supermarket that does them I believe). During WW2 when meat was heavily rationed, rabbit meat became pretty popular.

They're so lean they'll actively suck fat out of your body when digesting (provided you don't eat it with a fatty food or sauce). A diet with Rabbit as the only meat can actually be fatal (the more rabbit you eat, the quicker you die).

OK, I swear to god this isn't meant as sexual innuendo. You can avoid rabbit starvation by sucking on the bones.

The disgusting ground up stuff gives it all the awesome flavor though.

Loucifer:

I want to open a rabbit cafe named "hasenpfeffer incorporated"

Just don't hire a bunch of schlemiels for your wait staff.

TopoGigo: OK, I swear to god this isn't meant as sexual innuendo. You can avoid rabbit starvation by sucking on the bones.

Wrong, you'll still die. You need to suck the fatty marrow out of the bones,
Specifically leg bones such as the tibia.

Also, brains are quite fatty too... so cooking the rabbit with the head intact and cracking open the scull and sucking out the brain would be advised for survival or for the gourmand.

Rabbit is pretty tasty.
A friend of ours used our barn to raise harlequin lops for show.
In return, the ones that were unshowable and had no decent genes for breeding stock ended up in our cooking pot. It was a pretty good arrangement.

For the interested, it's kind of like chicken only a little bit more of a meat texture.

rcain: TopoGigo: OK, I swear to god this isn't meant as sexual innuendo. You can avoid rabbit starvation by sucking on the bones.

Wrong, you'll still die. You need to suck the fatty marrow out of the bones,
Specifically leg bones such as the tibia.

Also, brains are quite fatty too... so cooking the rabbit with the head intact and cracking open the scull and sucking out the brain would be advised for survival or for the gourmand.

Now, damnit, why else would I have said to suck on the bones? To suck out the calcium? Honestly.

I shoot 10-15 rabbits every month for my restaurant. I've not once had a complaint from some teary eyed imbecile about serving up Mr Flopsy. Wild rabbits are a real menace to the environment, so not even the tree huggers can object.
I had no idea rabbit isn't a menu staple in the US. Next you'll be telling me you don't boil all of your meat.

abigsmurf: You can get them in the majority of butchers in the UK (although Waitrose is the only supermarket that does them I believe). During WW2 when meat was heavily rationed, rabbit meat became pretty popular.

My girlfriend's grandmother is from Scotland and was living there during WW2 and was telling us stories about the rationing and how there was little meat to be had. Then she went on to talk about having rabbits or hares as pets during that time. My girlfriend asked her, "Gran, why didn't you just eat the rabbits?"

To which she responded, aghast, "Ya dinnae eet your pets!"

/shrug

Anyone here remember Pel? Link (new window)

Used to be a staple in the frozen food case in grocery stores. Haven't seen it since I was a little kid. Apparently they still produce rabbit for consumption, along with biologicals.

mamoru: Iron Chef Scottish: Rabbit is a controversial menu item in the US? Really?

Try telling many Americans that you have eaten horse and thought it delicious. I've received a number of dirty looks and pointed comments about that. :-/

/mmmmm...basashi

Cool story bro #2

I had a Korean exchange student sublet from one of my roommates one summer, one of the coolest guys I've ever met. He was the type of guy who would go out to Koreatown and pick up BBQ to cook for us, shared everything he had, and even went out and bought me a carton of Davidoff cigarettes the day he found out I smoked as a thank-you for opening our home to him. One night the first week he was living with us we decided to throw quite a few back and he said that there was something he wanted to tell us, and that he hoped it wouldn't make us hate him or want him to live elsewhere. It took him about three or four minutes to finally get it out: he ate dog occasionally in Korea. He was absolutely terrified of what our reaction might be. It was like seeing someone told they didn't have cancer once he realized that we didn't think he was Satan.

SpaceyCat: mamoru: • Rabbit terrine with black truffle, celery root and parsnip slaw, black-pepper buttermilk vinaigrette, brioche.

Damn, that's gotta be an expensive meal. Black truffle is NOT inexpensive!

65 bucks. I'll set a snare in my backyard and cook up a nice stew rather than spending 65 bucks on a meal.

Iron Chef Scottish: Rabbit is a controversial menu item in the US? Really?

If it's a land mammal other than a cow or a pig (sometimes lamb, depending on the restaurant), it's a controversial menu item in most U.S. cities. It it's a bird other than a chicken (or duck in some restaurants), it's also 'controversial.' In the home kitchens of the South, it's it's whatever strayed in front of our gun while we were out hunting.

The city I live in is actually considered very 'progressive' in terms of restaurant styles and menus. There's still only one place (that I know of, anyway) that will serve meats other than the three listed above. Thankfully, that place serves 'gator, venison, rattlesnake, and an excellent turtle soup.

Iron Chef Scottish: I shoot 10-15 rabbits every month for my restaurant. I've not once had a complaint from some teary eyed imbecile about serving up Mr Flopsy. Wild rabbits are a real menace to the environment, so not even the tree huggers can object.
I had no idea rabbit isn't a menu staple in the US. Next you'll be telling me you don't boil all of your meat.

No, we BBQ all of it...

That was sarcasm, of course, but most meat around here (in the southern U.S.) is fried, grilled, or BBQ'ed, occasionally stewed.

Most city folks out here are surprisingly picky eaters. I had a houseguest vomit all over my kitchen floor when she found out that the venison stew I served for dinner had 'Bambi' in it. I told her it was venison stew before we started eating, but apparently she didn't know that 'venison' = 'Bambi.'

I hear they're good with

Old enough to know better: I hear they're good with

I hear you can Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

Jgok There are some weird attitudes out there. Deer that have lived a full, natural life then killed humanely - disgusting
Chickens eating and wallowing in their own sh*t in factory farms - yum.

All that aside, venison is delicious. Loin or fillet of roe deer would have to feature in my 'death row' meal.

Iron Chef Scottish: I shoot 10-15 rabbits every month for my restaurant. I've not once had a complaint from some teary eyed imbecile about serving up Mr Flopsy. Wild rabbits are a real menace to the environment, so not even the tree huggers can object.
I had no idea rabbit isn't a menu staple in the US. Next you'll be telling me you don't boil all of your meat.

I grew up in Devon and spent my formative years rambling through woods and farmland with either an air rifle or a shotgun. Rabbit, pigeon, collared dove, pheasant, anything my brothers or I caught sight of ended up in the pot. I'm really looking forward to moving back out to the country and being able to shoot for the pot again.