TwistedSage
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Between the rains making dove spotty for the opener and the abundance of Jackrabbit on my place me and my buddy decided we would take the 22 along with a shotgun and if the dove wasn't happening we would go for a couple jackrabbits and cook them along the lines of hank shaws recipie.
After getting one with a clean shot in between the eyes and another not so pretty encounter we had 2 rabbits in about 45 mins. Promptly cleaned them. The one we took all 4 quarters and 2 backstrap and the other we could only salvage the two front quarter and one hind.
Our recipe was season rabbit pieces in salt and pepper brown in oil with one chopped onion then throw in a traditional stew.. potatoes, carrotts, celery, parsley and a quart of beef broth plus water to cover. Our goal was to cook until we could pull the rabbit easily off the bone. After watching Hank Shaw on meateater cook his stew I remember him saying it was about 1.5-2 hrs. We ended up cooking this stew about 4 or 5 hrs at a healthy rolling boil before the meat fell off. Every half hr or so after the initial 2 picking up a quarter by a meaty chunk and shaking it to see it it was ready to tear. Finally After having to add about 7 bottles of water just to keep it covered we started to pick up straight bones and the stew was ready.
I s#$@ you not this stew tasted exactly like a beef pot roast or stew we ate it with some club cracker and it was so damn good. I can't wait to make this on more occasions. I would next time wait a couple of hrs before adding potatoes so they had a little more texture.
If you haven't tried it yet, do yourself a favor and cook one up right l. Be prepared to stew this thing for about 5 hrs and you will be happy you did and have a new abundant food source.
After getting one with a clean shot in between the eyes and another not so pretty encounter we had 2 rabbits in about 45 mins. Promptly cleaned them. The one we took all 4 quarters and 2 backstrap and the other we could only salvage the two front quarter and one hind.
Our recipe was season rabbit pieces in salt and pepper brown in oil with one chopped onion then throw in a traditional stew.. potatoes, carrotts, celery, parsley and a quart of beef broth plus water to cover. Our goal was to cook until we could pull the rabbit easily off the bone. After watching Hank Shaw on meateater cook his stew I remember him saying it was about 1.5-2 hrs. We ended up cooking this stew about 4 or 5 hrs at a healthy rolling boil before the meat fell off. Every half hr or so after the initial 2 picking up a quarter by a meaty chunk and shaking it to see it it was ready to tear. Finally After having to add about 7 bottles of water just to keep it covered we started to pick up straight bones and the stew was ready.
I s#$@ you not this stew tasted exactly like a beef pot roast or stew we ate it with some club cracker and it was so damn good. I can't wait to make this on more occasions. I would next time wait a couple of hrs before adding potatoes so they had a little more texture.
If you haven't tried it yet, do yourself a favor and cook one up right l. Be prepared to stew this thing for about 5 hrs and you will be happy you did and have a new abundant food source.