Some of you may recall that we have rabbits in the back yard. We had four on Friday. On Saturday morning we had five. The logical deduction would be that the rabbits finally got busy and had a baby. One baby rabbit? Not possible. Rabbits are not born in bunches of one, like elephants, bears, horses and humans. No, bunnies are born in bunches. And we haven’t had any…not one…four adult rabbits and in five months, not one baby bunny. No, we had five because Paul went to the market and bought a new rabbit.
So we had five adults for a very short time. And then we had two and a lovely lunch: rabbit in cream sauce.
The two who had been living with us, whom I had named Soufle and Meringue when they were white, were lunch. Mysteriously, Souffle and Meringue were white in the beginning, and then, they got un-white. Their fur didn't change color. And they didn't get dirty...they groomed themselves fastidiously as they always had. They just got unwhite. Not very pretty. And then they started fighting, because as some of you may recall, they were both boys, destined never to have the babies we wanted.
Nathalie got a baked bunny recipe from her mom in Switzerland. Paul and Ba did the dirty deed and cleaned the carcasses. Nathalie and I browned the meat, stuck it in the oven and an hour later, we served it with Mama Cretin’s fabulous sauce over noodles. It was great at lunch…after sitting for eight more hours in the fridge, it was even better as left overs on Sunday evening.
Let me know if you want the recipe. Happy to share it, especially if you‘ve been waiting for your rabbits to breed and they haven’t. I heartily suggest you put those rabbits to good use.
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