Bring Me My Hasenpfeffer

We had quite the treat this week at The Acre. We gifted one of our neighbors a hatching of guinea birds in the spring, and he promised us a few rabbits in the fall. This week was that time. We scored four dressed and vacuum sealed rabbits, which was probably twenty pounds of meat. We were amazed at how big these things were.
Lawman tried his hand at rabbit hunting when he was a chirrun, but it seemed like a lot of work for very little meat. We thawed one out and quartered it up, then put it in a two quart jar with some chicken broth cubes and fresh basil, then pressure cooked it for 90 minutes.

Saturday after pancakes, Lawman opened the jar and picked the bones out of the meat. After pressure cooking the meat falls away from the bone. We got a whole quart of boneless meat. Lawman then chopped some up with bacon and made hasenpfeffer gravy for Sunday breakfast.

It was a huge hit. Cupcake liked it so much she requested we try the rabbit meat in a batch of hasenpfeffer and dumplings one night. We will probably buy a few more rabbits and can them straight away. That way we will have meat for meal emergencies.
A couple other food related items this week starts off with boiled custard. Middle of the week was end of the month for Cupcake. That means long hours and stress. November first signals holiday cooking at The Acre, but Cupcake said boiled custard and fresh chocolate cake would probably take the sting out of end of the month. So boiled custard and chocolate cake she got.

Lawman made a double batch of English muffins and froze the extras for breakfast in the coming weeks.

And since Cupcake had to work long hours, we had a quick to fix meal Monday. Seafood boil. We dropped a couple of drops of scorpion juice into the cocktail sauce.

And there's always scratch made buttermilk biscuits upon request.

We've been picking/eating fresh from the garden turnip greens for the past month or so. Lately we've gotten enough rain to make the turnips take off, so we picked a few and slow cooked a pot full for dinner one night.

Then Sunday we started all over again by making another batch of boiled custard.

We ended the week by going to see the new Thor movie at the Imax, then came home for wings.
K&K