Sun 15 Aug 2010
We need smellovision…
Posted by Rein under Food, Home alone, Me-time
[2] Comments
Then I would be able to make you all drool again (except for my vegetarian friends, I’m afraid 
). Still feeling the dent in my pocket after the Japanese Splurge, I opted to take a look in my deepfreezer instead today. Lo and behold, there still was a piece of rabbit lurking behind all the chips, pizzas en fishfingers! Leftover that didn’t make it to the ‘neighbour dinner’ we had quite some time ago, I remember now. Well, there’s only that much rabbit 2 women can eat under the disapproving stare of their offspring 
As there’s still no offspring here (*sniff* I miss them, especially as it’s Mother’s Day here in Antwerp – yep, only here, we’re special 
), there won’t be any disapproving looks either.
I made it in my tajin (best buy ever, seriously!) with a surrounding of carrots, onions, prunes, bayleaves and potatoes. No defrosting, just bunged it in with the carrots and onions first, with a generous splash of olive oil. Let it brown, covered on high heat for about 5 minutes, add prunes, bayleaves and the main ingredient, a bottle of brown beer. Grimbergen this time. Heh, to be honest, I use that most of the time, it’s one of my favourite ‘stew’ beers 
Add some ground pepper, salt and the roughly chopped potatoes. Let it come up to boiling again and then turn down to half, so it just keeps on simmering. No need to look after, the tajin drips on the meat and keeps it just right.
Three quarters of an hour afterwards you will be presented with this:
Rabbit stew
As you can see I pricked the potatoes and they’re just right As they’re usually the last to be ready, the rest will be good too.
I know it’s a weird time to eat ‘dinner’ (it’s 15:41 here now) but during the holidays (and certainly when I’m on my own) we eat when the mood gets us, be it once or five times a day – my body just has to put up with it
I’ll let you know if anything was left
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Report (21:27): it’s all gone now (just had the last bit as a nibble before bed ) and boy, was it good! Sometimes I amaze myself with my culinairy concoctions 
Uh-oh, I just realised that that also means I had about 15 prunes… I bet no-one wants reports on that, do they?
First off it’s a pain having to log your deatils each time I want to make a comment
*whinge over*
I like the look of the vegggies, can’t say the rabbit looks or sounds too appealing however, hope it was as scrumptious as youe xpected it to be
oh and Happy Mother’s Day
If I remember well, now I’ve commented on you and approved you, you should be on the ‘white list’ and be able to comment without logging in – I hope
It was – even better and the cat approved too
Thanks – here in Antwerp we like to have special days, just for us