little bunny, big money

[kindkit]

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.

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[mllesatine]

Our dinner on Christmas eve will consist of potato salad (with mayo) and Gaulschken (a dish made of minced meat and raw rice that, formed into balls will be slowly simmered in sauerkraut). It's apparently tradition in our house to check as many German stereotypes as possible on one plate.

[kindkit]

Well, I think for holiday meals, a lot of people really cling to the food traditions of their childhood, which makes sense. Anyway, it sounds very tasty!