Rabbit pie
Friends of ours had pet rabbits. Soon they had lots of pet rabbits. Then that started to try give away their excess rabbits. I mentioned I'd consider a few if he couldn't find homes. He was a bit taken aback and mentioned that he'd never considered me as a the rabbits as pets type. I told him I wasn't a rabbits as pets type. but rabbit pie OTOH...

Anyway after he ran out of people to give rabbits to, he conceded and gave me the last two he wasn't able to home.

We turned them into a rabbit pie which we took back to his place for dinner. Complete with cute bunny silhouette on the pie crust. To his credit, he ate a good portion. OTOH I was just reminded of just how bland rabbit meat is.

Totally worth it for the silent moment at a party when a common friend asked him about what happened to the two last rabbits and he said that I'd eaten them. Some initial laughs, but an awkward silence when common friend realised we were not joking.

If you get a pet rabbit, get just one pet rabbit.
(xixax, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 11:48, 1 reply)

Rabbit meat is bland
But like chicken if you add a few mushrooms to the gravy, it does improve it a lot. Wild rabbits do have more flavour than farmed ones. Many years ago a friend of ours brought us some rabbits from a shoot that he had been on. I have never tasted (or even seen ) wild rabbits quite like these. Lord knows what they had been eating but they were huge, almost like hares, and when you skinned them they had a layer of fat under the skin and also some fat around the kidneys, just like a pig.
(Mackeson_drinker, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 6:44, closed)