Rabbit

Anyone have a recipe they could share?

Sure. Skin and gut, then cut off the hindquarters and front legs. Place everything (including the back) in a HOT cast iron skillet and brown. Then transfer the meat over to a slow cooker and deglaze your skillet with some wine, or water if you don’t have any handy. Pour that liquid over the meat. Then dump a can of cream of mushroom, celery, or chicken soup over the top. Turn that sucker on low and you’ll have some good eats in about 6 hours.

That sounds good kevin.
I do a simple recipe. Roll in shorelunch Cajun and brown with high heat. Add a cup or so of water, cover, and turn heat down to a very low simmer…adding a splash of water as needed. When the meat gets very tender and bout to fall off bone, increase heat to crisp some edges and serve. Better than chicken

Been a long time since I’ve had rabbit. It was served to us a lot in the service and my grandparents made it on the farm. Good stuff! Can it be purchased anywhere?

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We have 3 “meat bunnies” we’ll be breeding this spring, they are really easy to take care of, and pretty easy to find them if you don’t mind doing your own butchering.

I make it just like Kevin. Squirrel the same. Good eats!

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We have 3 “meat bunnies” we’ll be breeding this spring, they are really easy to take care of, and pretty easy to find them if you don’t mind doing your own butchering.

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Is that different from bunnies that run wild in the snow?

Hasenpfeffer is one of my favorite ways also
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hasenpfeffer-rabbit-stew/

Makes me hungry just thing about it…..

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I make it just like Kevin. Squirrel the same. Good eats!

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YES! It is great with squirrel as well! Pheasant too, but it won’t take as long in the cooker with bird.

EASTER.?.. …rrr

Crank Kevins recipe up a notch. Use equal amount of sour cream with the celery soup. Slice in 1/2 a medium onion and season with rosemary and bay leaf. BAM

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Buyer beware… They had frozen whole rabbits at my local grocery store. I almost bought one until I saw “product of China” on the label. To each their own, but I get the feeling that Chinese food processing is not nearly as well regulated as domestic, and I refuse to eat anything from that country if I can help it.

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Been a long time since I’ve had rabbit. It was served to us a lot in the service and my grandparents made it on the farm. Good stuff! Can it be purchased anywhere?

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If you have room for a wire pen, and have no children or children who are older, you can raise your own feed rabbits very cheaply. You can buy commercial feed very cheap online, and then just feed them your garden scraps. Takes about 14 weeks for them to reach butchering size. Cost of raising will be about $0.40 each and the average live weight (depending on breed) should be about 5#. If this interests you, there are dozens of forums and hundreds of articles on the net regarding the subject.

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Buyer beware… They had frozen whole rabbits at my local grocery store. I almost bought one until I saw “product of China” on the label. To each their own, but I get the feeling that Chinese food processing is not nearly as well regulated as domestic, and I refuse to eat anything from that country if I can help it.

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Most likely it’s not rabbit

There’s a farm in Cottage Grove that was selling them. I always saw the sign out by the road but cant remember where.

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I used to see a bunch of signs on the back roads that said “dressed rabbits” for sale……

I always wondered if the rabbits wore jeans or a tux

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I used to see a bunch of signs on the back roads that said “dressed rabbits” for sale……

I always wondered if the rabbits wore jeans or a tux

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Tux, Bow tie, and a tail as I recall at our local club!

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Been a long time since I’ve had rabbit. It was served to us a lot in the service and my grandparents made it on the farm. Good stuff! Can it be purchased anywhere?

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If you have room for a wire pen, and have no children or children who are older, you can raise your own feed rabbits very cheaply. You can buy commercial feed very cheap online, and then just feed them your garden scraps. Takes about 14 weeks for them to reach butchering size. Cost of raising will be about $0.40 each and the average live weight (depending on breed) should be about 5#. If this interests you, there are dozens of forums and hundreds of articles on the net regarding the subject.

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I’m sure people do that but that’s to much of an investment for a couple meals in my opinion. Not financial investment, just overall.

Absolutely, if its just a few meals a year. But with an investment of $75 you can have 12-15 rabbits every 7 weeks in about 6mo. One rabbit is a meal for 3. So for a family of 3 that is 12-15 meals every 7 weeks for about $0.40 a meal.

Just remember you can starve eating only rabbits. Just an old bit of trivia.

$75 dollars for 12 rabbits? Wow those are some expensive 22 shells. The 12 or more rabbits that have been eating my deer corn since October are really fattening up so Sunday one will be in the crook pot.

$75 start up. Then $0.40 a rabbit for the next 30 years. Its long term sustainable living. You can find info on about every prepper, subsistence living, or outdoors living forum. There are even several websites solely pertaining to raising rabbits for food.

Oh, and I’d take that down considering rabbit season closed yesterday. DNR patrols these boards.

In WI you can hunt small game on your land year round but thanks for caring.

This could be a Thanksgiving rabbit! These thing are huge.
Flemmish rabbits.

This thread is making long for my youth. I used to get out and hunt these little devils religiously, along with Squirrels.

I think I’ll have to revisit this sport this coming fall/winter. Thanks to all for a great little thread!

We were serious rabbit hunters and had a couple good dogs to kick them up. We shot lots of rabbits, hundreds, and the best recipe I used is as follows..

Heavily flour and fry rabbit slow with a lid on the skillet. Add onions, small chunks of chopped celery and sliced mushrooms, preferably fall mushrooms. Add small amounts of water occasionally too keep the meat moist and too fluff up the flour on the unfried side of the meat. Add a milk and flour or corn starch mix to make a gravy to pour over baked red potatoes. Let the rabbit cook in this gravy for atleast another half hour. Take the chunks of rabbit meat and set them on your plate right next to the red gravied potatoes. Add a little salt and pepper and theres not a meat too much better then rabbit or squirrel. Put a nice bowl of a good salad, cottage cheese and a few deviled eggs next to the main plate and its good eating, if I keep this up the neighborhood might be short a few rabbits soon…