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Rabbit Soup

11/26/2011

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After the first attack - the leftovers!
Okay - I am way behind on recipes - this one happened right before Thanksgiving and it was a dandy.  Cord and Beau have been talking about cooking up a mess of rabbit for so long they had it all figured out in advance.  
First let me say that we have deer fence for our gardens but we share with the little critters unless the little critters start taking more than their fair share.  Some years the rabbit population is too many - perhaps the neighbors are shooting coyotes - who keep things balanced, or perhaps it was a mild winter so the populations soar.  It is then that we try to simply decrease their numbers - no annihilation - just manage their numbers.  We get a small game license - it's crazy how many critters you can legally kill with no license - but since bunnies are considered food - we need one and occasionally a bunny goes into a ziploc bag in the freezer.  Beau has often been my bunny provider - he is a crack shot and takes care of all of it - the dressing out, the skinning, the cleaning.  He washes them, freezer bags them, labels and dates them and into the freezer they go.  He says proudly, "I made meat Ma!" which we love to say - an old mountain man term.
So - when we got 5 deer this year we needed room in the deep freeze.  "Let's cook up some rabbits Dad!", Beau yelled, and so they did.  Out came the 20 qt. stock pot and into it went cold water and 7 frozen rabbits.  They began to thaw.
Here's the very large recipe for:
Rabbit Soup
7 rabbits
water to cover
1 whole onion - in quarters or whatever.
1 whole Garlic Head
1 Tbsp Whole Peppercorns
1 Tbsp Crushed Fennel Seed
3/4 Tsp Crushed Caraway Seed
2 -3 Bay Leaves
Rubbed Sage
A Little Salt
Boil for a good spell - until the rabbit is fully cooked and easy to pull off the bone.
Let cool enough to handle.
Remove the rabbits and strain the broth to remove above ingredients.
De-bone the rabbits - add the meat back in and bring to a boil.
Add Roux - (brown 1 stick of butter with a couple of handfuls of flour into a paste).
1 Handful of Seasoning Bacon (the kind in chunks).
5 potatoes - diced small - cook until el dente - then add:
Carrots - chopped
Celery + Leaves - chopped
Mushrooms - roughly chopped
Salt  
Sage 
Italian Seasoning.
Boil again for 10-15 minutes.
Add Kluski noodles - boil for around 15 minutes or until noodles are tender.  
Serve with Tearable Bread  (Bread you can tear.)
Freak out!!!  
So good - so crazy good - so rich - so scrumptious we almost hurt ourselves.
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So pretty I had to take a pic!
Obviously you can reduce this recipe to the amount of rabbits you have but we usually cook in a big way.  As Thanksgiving approached we jarred the leftovers in Mason Jars 3/4's full, labeled and dated them and put them in the freezer.  They are in single servings this way for the guys to have an easy lunch or snack.
Also - we called it soup because it was quite brothy - perfect for dunking bread.  Of course - over time - it became a stew.
Enjoy! - Coming next - my mother's famous Venison Stroganoff recipe!
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9/13/2019 08:29:57 pm

Rabbit soup is not as bad as it sounds. I know that a lot of people cannot stomach the idea of eating rabbit soup, but that is just because they are ignorant to how good it is. Well, if you are too prideful to try it, then I will not blame you, just know that you are making a big mistake. Rabbit soup, is, by far, the best soup that I have tasted. If you change your mid, just go and come and take a sip

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2/17/2022 10:19:14 am

I dont like eating rabbit.

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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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