Malevant’s Special Dinner Party Request

Hello loyal followers. This is my second post in one week. As you know I’ve been looking at lots of old recipes recently and discovering some delicious sounding if unusual rabbit recipes. To celebrate my discovery I’ve decided to hold a dinner party for a few friends, featuring some of the rabbit dishes. But I need help deciding what to include in my final menu plan so I thought I’d ask you, my followers, for assistance .

Old Recipes and Rabbits Surprised

I’ve found some unusual receipts in my grandmother’s recipe book. Receipt is the old fashioned word for recipe. Some I’d never heard of before so after a bit of research I found some very old recipe books featuring…

An Old Recipe Book and a Favourite Rabbit Dish

  The other day I was going through some boxes up in the old dairy. I discovered some interesting finds, one of which was my grandmother’s old recipe book. From the photo you can see that it is a brown clothbound book and pretty well battered about and stained from so many years of use. It was stuffed with bits of paper…

Rabbit Terrine with Prosciutto, Orange, and Fennel

Summer’s heat is a distant memory, the sun takes longer to rise above the hills of Meadowbrook, and winter is closing in. Some of the trees still have a few leaves clinging to them. Without leaf cover, hunting becomes a bit harder but one of my favourite hiding places is the old quince thicket which…

Rabbit, Mushroom, and Cider Pie

I thought I’d start my blog by sharing my mother’s luscious, heart-and toe-warming, Rabbit, Mushroom, and Cider Pie. Whether it’s winter, spring, summer or autumn, a nice golden pie bursting with meaty goodness is always a welcome choice. I used flaky pastry for the pie featured in the photo but if you’re feeling energetic then feel free…