Cecylia had a most unusual hobby. Naturally she couldn’t pursue it all the time, like once a day. Once a week was plenty, although in fact once a month was more the usual practice. Cecylia collected (and used) rabbit recipes.
It all began one day when a friend called in for a cup of coffee and they got talking.
“I don’t know how anyone could cook a rabbit any other way than in a rabbit stew. Rabbit is surely the most uninteresting edible mammal on the planet.”
This set Cecylia on a mission. For the last seven months she had found eleven creative ways to cook rabbit. One of the recipes, rabbit cooked in prunes, wasn’t as successful as the others, but all in all (as Cecylia’s friend said) “When it comes to rabbit there’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
Since Cecylia’s hobby almost bordered on an obsession, her friend arranged for them to visit a rabbit farm for Cecylia’s birthday.
“It’ll be such fun, and maybe the farmer’s wife (how very sexist of me) will have a few rabbit recipes she can share.”
Off they went!
“Oh look at the beautiful bunny-rabbits! Oh aren’t they lovely? Oh this one has baby bunnies – all five of them! Oh look at all the colours! How cute! I see you have angora rabbits as well. They are so soft! Oh how gorgeous! I simply must knit an angora rabbit hat! What a lovely birthday gift! Not only a visit to the bunny farm but an oh-so-soft angora rabbit muff and scarf as well! How marvellous!”
Cecylia (as the reader will have already deduced) never cooked another bunny-rabbit.
Are you checking our powers of observation: ” she had found eleventh creative ways” ?
I’m happy this yarn had a very happy ending.
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Thank you for bringing that fourth to my attention. I’ll change it in a second. Anyway, my rabbit recipe with prunes (despite the story) is the best!
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I thought that sounded tasty. I’d eat the prunes, anyhow.
May the forth be with you.
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“May the forth be with you two” – to be said with a hot potato in the mouth.
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Maybe Jugged Hare next time?
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I’ll eat any game – but hare – even made into its best “form” of pate – is too (not strong) but too smelly.
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Cecylia (as the reader will have already deduced) never cooked another bunny-rabbit.
Thank God for that.
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Over here rabbits are a pest. There a thousands of them – and they can destroy farms and cause an enormous amount of erosion.
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I imagine the rabbits around here are quite tasty since they only seem to eat the finest fresh produce from my garden. I may have found myself a new hobby.
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My rabbit recipe with prunes is a nice one. It’s the catching them that is the hardest part (catching the rabbits, not the prunes)..
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You surely love to scare the hell out of the bunnies!
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They are a major pest here in New Zealand. Despite that, they are not available in the food shops.
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Bunnies are super cute, but I’m curious about bunnies in prunes. As long as it doesn’t cause relentless diarrhoea, I’m okay with other people cooking them!
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Bunnies in prunes certainly contributes to global warming.
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That’s what the world’s coming too. A militant vegan commented on my post apocalypse now. The same madman who asked me once to edit. He probably is a Clinton supporter.
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Ha! Ha! There’s many a militant vegan who think they can have their cake and eat it.
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I have to admit I groaned inside when I saw the title, so I’m very happy to see it has a happy ending 🙂
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Sorry to get you in a stew!
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And now I’m groaning out loud 🙂
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!!
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I deducted she keeps cooking them.
Thank you for the wonderful read and music, Bruce. Sorry for the delay and the lack of comments. Not coping well with everything I have got on my hands right now.
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Thanks for looking and listening, Inese. As the saying goes – Don’t let the b*****ds get you down!
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Fighting, Bruce.
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