little bunny, big money
Dec. 12th, 2013 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My plan to boil a bunny on Christmas (okay, okay, to braise a rabbit for Christmas dinner) has been thwarted. There is apparently only one shop in town that sells rabbit, and it charges $11 a pound. That's about $30 or even more for a single rabbit. I couldn't afford that even if I was willing to pay as much for a damn rabbit as I would for a decent piece of beef.
So now I need to rethink Christmas dinner. I still want something simple, easy to cook, and not too expensive, but also special. Anybody got any ideas? I'm still very much leaning towards a stew or soup, because even though, say, a roast is simple, it requires lots of other dishes to go with it, whereas a hearty soup or stew is a meal in itself.
So now I need to rethink Christmas dinner. I still want something simple, easy to cook, and not too expensive, but also special. Anybody got any ideas? I'm still very much leaning towards a stew or soup, because even though, say, a roast is simple, it requires lots of other dishes to go with it, whereas a hearty soup or stew is a meal in itself.
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Date: 2013-12-13 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-12-13 02:44 am (UTC)Lol
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Date: 2013-12-13 08:34 pm (UTC)I have never butchered anything, even a fish.
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Date: 2013-12-13 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-13 04:21 am (UTC)I've cooked goat (in a curry) and tastes great, although the only cut I could find, a generic "stew meat" was pretty bony and gristly.
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Date: 2013-12-13 08:43 am (UTC)Lamb is certainly a good suggestion - though I find with different butchery habits and different cut preferences it's hard to make recs for cuts. For a nice stew or braise I would go for neck of lamb or lamb shank, and cook very slowly.
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Date: 2013-12-13 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-13 03:24 pm (UTC)I like lamb, but I have to cook it with strong spices because otherwise the taste of the lamb fat is a bit too much for me. I cook a lot of lamb curries.
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Date: 2013-12-14 09:58 pm (UTC)You also want to try here: http://www.localharvest.org/store/meats.jsp?srt=2&q=rabbit
The little game hens are cheap and fun, presentation wise. And unlike duck, they basically roast up like little chickens.
There's also squab, but might be harder to find (unless you have a local halal butcher.)
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Date: 2013-12-15 01:23 am (UTC)I think I've pretty much decided to buy a good quality chicken and make waterzooi, which is a Dutch chicken stew with cream. I just really, really am not in the mood to cook anything complicated. The Christmas season is the busiest time of year at my job, and I'm tired.
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Date: 2013-12-15 01:38 am (UTC)