Well Good Tuesday Morning You Great Saucy Cookies!!!!!
And here's a happy holiday week wish to all! (Passover, Easter, or that other so very wonderful grand holiday, that's called: "TODAY")!
May celebration ring!!!!!
So I'd seen this GORGEOUS rabbit in my local store recently and needed to hop to it thus and buy him right up!
My dogs got the luscious liver bits (all sautéed in a pan for them, as they prefer their meals "warm") and they just LOVED it!
Meanwhile, I had this little split/half-bottle of Sauterne kicking around in my fridge...
Thank God this dessert wine is WAY too sweet for me to drink, (as I adore BONE DRY wines), and therefore it actually made it into the dish and not into me! Smiles.
I'm on day 8 of "not having wine for 11 days," (as so many people I've talked to online here have commented that they don't have ANY wine during the week, ever, and only have some on the weekends).
Soooo, it was exactly 11 days before my brother would visit (which is this coming Saturday) when I thought: "Well, I could try NOT having any wine for these next 11 days and then enjoying it with company that Saturday."
Perhaps I thought I'd lose 11 pounds, and sleep more soundly than ever - like a newborn puppy - and be so sharp, clear, alert and feel fabulous or something!!!???
But to no avail. I think that wine and my life are better together, but this has been an interesting experiment and must be healthier for overall things in many ways...
But viva the liquid grape from the Gods! It's coming back into my life, I must admit.
OK, back to business here, with some charming capers!
And of course, some sassy shallots! (Even though they always make me cry)!
And while I looked for fresh tarragon, four stores were out, and thus flat leaf parsley went into my bag and helped today out!
I revisited my bunny, JUST to make sure he didn't hop off somewhere, but indeed he was dead...
And I chopped up the shallots & flat leaf parsley, and added some capers into that mix...
And I stuffed the ravishing rabbit with that mixture...
And then folded his sides securely back up - all nice and comfy - like a little snuggle bunny, and then poured on that little mini bottle of Sauterne and some Tunisian olive oil (which is golden, and light and not over powering and just like LIQUID GOLD)!
The meat got mopped around carefully in all that sauce and then soaked in the fridge for just over an hour...
Meanwhile, I took my favorite dried mushroom - "lobster mushrooms" - and soaked those in warm water...
While firing up the teeny gas smoker to 300 degrees, with pistachio shells instead of smoking chips, for 35 minutes...
I wiped some grapeseed oil onto a grill grate, and put that on the smoker and the stuffed rabbit on top of that...
And started getting a salad together with arugula, tomatoes,
fresh basil...
the leftover shallot-caper-parsley stuffing that remained from the bunny...
And my dog, "Voss" goes CRAZY for arugula (I still haven't figured out just why) and so he was waiting patiently for many sprigs...
and gobbled that right up!
Once off the smoker, the AROMA was like MAPLE SYRUP (and I was born in Vermont and can say that with conviction even)!
I drizzled more olive oil over everything, added the lobster mushrooms (drained from the warm soaking water they were in), and ground some black pepper and pink Himalayan sea salt over it all too...
And the outer meat had that smoky taste, and that SAUTERNE was the single best marinade ever, as the meat was SWEET!!! Not sickeningly sweet, but GORGEOUS! Really, really, gorgeous!
The lovely lobster mushrooms were just a treasure!
The inner shallot stuffing came out exquisitely too!
The taste of this, having smoked it and with the Sauterne, was exactly like "REALLY JUICY Cornish hen meets Pork," and it was WON-DER-FUL, I must admit!
The crispy outer edges were fantastic!
And the meat was SO soft!
Pulling and yanking with reckless abandon - grease running down my chin - the hind legs were the most JUICY, SUCCULENT, and SMOOTH BABY SOFT delicacies ever, and I just scraped everything off and am amazed at how terrific this all was.
Thank you so much, for sharing in my holiday dinner!
Happy fabulous everything to you!!! Make today delicious!!!
Cheers!!! - Leah
And here's a happy holiday week wish to all! (Passover, Easter, or that other so very wonderful grand holiday, that's called: "TODAY")!
May celebration ring!!!!!
So I'd seen this GORGEOUS rabbit in my local store recently and needed to hop to it thus and buy him right up!
My dogs got the luscious liver bits (all sautéed in a pan for them, as they prefer their meals "warm") and they just LOVED it!
Meanwhile, I had this little split/half-bottle of Sauterne kicking around in my fridge...
Thank God this dessert wine is WAY too sweet for me to drink, (as I adore BONE DRY wines), and therefore it actually made it into the dish and not into me! Smiles.
I'm on day 8 of "not having wine for 11 days," (as so many people I've talked to online here have commented that they don't have ANY wine during the week, ever, and only have some on the weekends).
Soooo, it was exactly 11 days before my brother would visit (which is this coming Saturday) when I thought: "Well, I could try NOT having any wine for these next 11 days and then enjoying it with company that Saturday."
Perhaps I thought I'd lose 11 pounds, and sleep more soundly than ever - like a newborn puppy - and be so sharp, clear, alert and feel fabulous or something!!!???
But to no avail. I think that wine and my life are better together, but this has been an interesting experiment and must be healthier for overall things in many ways...
But viva the liquid grape from the Gods! It's coming back into my life, I must admit.
OK, back to business here, with some charming capers!
And of course, some sassy shallots! (Even though they always make me cry)!
And while I looked for fresh tarragon, four stores were out, and thus flat leaf parsley went into my bag and helped today out!
I revisited my bunny, JUST to make sure he didn't hop off somewhere, but indeed he was dead...
And I chopped up the shallots & flat leaf parsley, and added some capers into that mix...
And I stuffed the ravishing rabbit with that mixture...
And then folded his sides securely back up - all nice and comfy - like a little snuggle bunny, and then poured on that little mini bottle of Sauterne and some Tunisian olive oil (which is golden, and light and not over powering and just like LIQUID GOLD)!
The meat got mopped around carefully in all that sauce and then soaked in the fridge for just over an hour...
Meanwhile, I took my favorite dried mushroom - "lobster mushrooms" - and soaked those in warm water...
While firing up the teeny gas smoker to 300 degrees, with pistachio shells instead of smoking chips, for 35 minutes...
I wiped some grapeseed oil onto a grill grate, and put that on the smoker and the stuffed rabbit on top of that...
And started getting a salad together with arugula, tomatoes,
fresh basil...
the leftover shallot-caper-parsley stuffing that remained from the bunny...
And my dog, "Voss" goes CRAZY for arugula (I still haven't figured out just why) and so he was waiting patiently for many sprigs...
and gobbled that right up!
Once off the smoker, the AROMA was like MAPLE SYRUP (and I was born in Vermont and can say that with conviction even)!
I drizzled more olive oil over everything, added the lobster mushrooms (drained from the warm soaking water they were in), and ground some black pepper and pink Himalayan sea salt over it all too...
And the outer meat had that smoky taste, and that SAUTERNE was the single best marinade ever, as the meat was SWEET!!! Not sickeningly sweet, but GORGEOUS! Really, really, gorgeous!
The lovely lobster mushrooms were just a treasure!
The inner shallot stuffing came out exquisitely too!
The taste of this, having smoked it and with the Sauterne, was exactly like "REALLY JUICY Cornish hen meets Pork," and it was WON-DER-FUL, I must admit!
The crispy outer edges were fantastic!
And the meat was SO soft!
Pulling and yanking with reckless abandon - grease running down my chin - the hind legs were the most JUICY, SUCCULENT, and SMOOTH BABY SOFT delicacies ever, and I just scraped everything off and am amazed at how terrific this all was.
Thank you so much, for sharing in my holiday dinner!
Happy fabulous everything to you!!! Make today delicious!!!
Cheers!!! - Leah
