This is probably going to horrify vegetarians and small children but we ate Bugs Bunny.
No seriously, rabbits are considered a pest here in New Zealand and farmers are all too happy for hunters to come and help keep their rabbit population under control. So off the boys went the other week for a spot of rabbit hunting and they brought home some rabbits for the larder.
Having never cooked or eaten rabbit before I moved down to Dunedin I was intrigued. What on earth would bunny would taste like?
We first tried it as a pot roast in the slow cooker loosely using a Jamie Oliver recipe but the meat ended up being really dry and the lemon was completely over-powering. However, you could still just make out the flavour of the meat and guess what it tasted like...
Yip you got it - it tasted just like chicken. Only gamier. I kid you not.
So not to be defeated by the first failed attempt, I thought to try a different approach: Rabbit au Vin or as we jokingly called it Bugs Bunny Stew.
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