Monday, October 4, 2010

"You know what the secret ingredient is..." "Love?" "Lard"

So over the weekend, I went to visit my sister and brother-in-law to watch conference and enjoy some of my sister's delicious cooking. My sister reads a lot of food blogs and tries out a lot of different recipes frequently so I usually get to try something new every time I visit them. For the pre-conference food, we had pumpkin cinnamon rolls and quiche (Yum!). Before the first Sunday session started, my sister started working on the evening meal which would include a rabbit. Yes, indeed, we had rabbit stew for the conference follow-up meal. I was a little nervous but dived into the stew with appropriate gusto. I found some things out about rabbit stew:
1 - It really does taste like chicken
2 - It's a lot softer than I expected. For some reason I was picturing almost jerky consistency.
3 - I could definitely eat it again
4 - Apparently a large group of rabbits is called a 'herd'. For some reason I really want to call it a posse.
5 - According to my brother-in-law's book on raising rabbits, you can raise over a hundred good meat rabbits in a year. How have I not yet hopped on that train?!?!
Yea for new food experiences!