^^^ excellent! dumplings or mashed potatoes?

Mashed potatoes & butternut squash mixed with an egg yoke and cream, salt & pepper. 30 minutes in the oven.

wow, now that sounds interesting, I'll have to try it.

wow!!

is this a store bought bunny? or did you................?

looks AWESOME!!

And it was very tasty...

For some odd reason she could not find lamb shanks (usual Valentine dinner) so she bought rabbits instead at the grocery store, google for a recipe and voilà! We got another meal in the freezer. She also bought a Pinot Noir and when I google "wine pairing for rabbit" lo and behold Pinot Noir was one of the match...

Funny you ask, we live just outside the city in a 2 acres lot development. About 20 years ago, we had a large rafter of wild turkeys going from house to house looking for food. The week-end before Thanksgiving I count 23 of them, the week-end after they were still 23 :D:):D

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She substitute half the potatoes with butternut squash.

When in the oven check every 30 minutes, you may need to add some broth, seem to evaporate quickly.

Gourmet One Pot Cream Braised Rabbit - Sweet Somethings

thanks bud. i am gonna make this!! maybe sunday!

i'll buy one..this time. ;) (which sucks because my butcher gets something like $22 per rabbit.)

hey, that would work for chicken.

oh no. this looks awesome as well.

wow. a rabbit is $10.99 per pound!!

i might have to put a pin in this dish until next winter. :(

Ahh, the bane of the expensive ingredient. What so many cultures eat for nearly free, because they go out and catch it, Americans typically buy at the store and pay dearly.

I once decided to make a Mexican dish that is often found on the pacific beaches down there, called pescado zarandeado. For this, I needed a fresh whole fish, a red snapper was appropriate, so I dispatched the spousal unit down to the market to buy said fish. She returned with a 10 pound fish, which was quite nice, but it came at a price of $15 a pound. I will let you do the math on that one.

Some years later, I decided I needed to make a wild boar ragu, so I ordered a wild boar shoulder from a pricey meat supplier on the East Coast. Had I been a hunter, I could've shot one for free on land owned by a guy I used to know, but sadly, I'm not a hunter. That pasta dish cost me probably in excess of $75.

Every winter I make a French cassoulet and the duck, pork parts, tarbais beans and everything else I need to set me back at least $50. It's also a two or three day production, so that's why it's once a year.

I miss the days when of my kids lived in Alaska and would send me free, vacuum packed, fresh caught salmon .

This turned out well. Fresh wild cod with saffron basmati rice Zojirushi'd with some schmaltz and a tomato, caper, lemon, garlic wine butter sauce. The surprise was the little quenelle of red pepper paste, it complemented the fish perfectly and even the sauce, didn't expect it to work with lemon and capers. Had to add a little more. Definitely doing a romescu for more of the fish next.

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Green lipped mussel. There was a particularly low tide this morning when dog walking so I brought these home.

fresh
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Shepard's pie: Baked beef, carrots, peppers, celery, onion, garlic, S&P, with mashed red taters thinned with milk butter and parisian spread on top.
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I made some Zaa... this is a 4 day ferment using 00 flour..

Cooked off in my wood burning Pizza oven , took a little over a minute,

Delicious

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learned a new GIANT word recently.

NIXTAMILIZED. hell, spell check doesnt even know it!!

somewhere in our ancestry, some genius discovered how to unlock the nutrients of certain grains by treating them with an alkaline solution.

i recently started to perfect my Posole. i elected to use dry corn instead of the canned hominy products. it was not easy to find and what i did find was not neccesarly Nixtamilized. and asking the mexican cashier 100% resulted in a blank stare.

i found some in Napa CA!! the green chili chicken posole is awesome!! texture and flavor is way head/shoulders over the can product.

here is is soaking in water for a day. i still had to slow cook it for two hours afterwards.

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Cold and rainy here this week, so I felt like some simple pasta. Spaghetti with a jalapeño and almond pesto.

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Salmon, wine, butter, onions, capers. I love 4-5 ingredient dishes. Center was raw, skin was crispy and oh so tasty.

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