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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Made a big pot of hasenpfeffer (rabbit stew) today
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Real. Neighbor raises them. Killed and cleaned them for me. All I had to do was season and cook. Remove the bones and it was done.
Is this what the two chicks who hung out with The Fonz were singing about?
Post recipe. I love me some rabbit.
My dad was a CPA and wouldn’t waste a penny. We had vegetable gardens, a green house, a shrimp boat, hunted deer and birds, ran trout lines, and raised New Zealand White rabbits for food. My siblings and I were young And played with the baby rabbits. Dad did most of the cooking. (He loved cooking and still does.)
Dad knew that us kids would not eat the rabbits, so he would make chicken and dumplings with rabbit in lieu of chicken. We loved his chicken and dumplings. I was the big boy and usually was first to the pot at dinner time. I had a hunch that it wasn’t chicken, so I would stir the pot and look for wings. If I didn’t see a wing, I would whisper to my 3 siblings that it was rabbit. Then we just would dish up the cream broth, veg and dumplings. Dad always wondered why there was so much meat left. I told him the jig was up when I went off to college. He laughed and said I was too smart for my own good. Lol.
Interesting fact; Rabbit is so lean, that you would starve to death if all you could eat was rabbit.
The leanness of rabbit is similar to a boneless skinless chicken breast. Cook it the same. it will dry out real fast in a stew. Add it at the last 20min.
Otherwise poach or Sioux vide or grill fast. A fat heavy sauce will complement the lean meat.
Dad knew that us kids would not eat the rabbits, so he would make chicken and dumplings with rabbit in lieu of chicken. We loved his chicken and dumplings. I was the big boy and usually was first to the pot at dinner time. I had a hunch that it wasn’t chicken, so I would stir the pot and look for wings. If I didn’t see a wing, I would whisper to my 3 siblings that it was rabbit. Then we just would dish up the cream broth, veg and dumplings. Dad always wondered why there was so much meat left. I told him the jig was up when I went off to college. He laughed and said I was too smart for my own good. Lol.
Interesting fact; Rabbit is so lean, that you would starve to death if all you could eat was rabbit.
The leanness of rabbit is similar to a boneless skinless chicken breast. Cook it the same. it will dry out real fast in a stew. Add it at the last 20min.
Otherwise poach or Sioux vide or grill fast. A fat heavy sauce will complement the lean meat.
