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The side hills in our town are full of hedgerows and thorn bushes, the perfect home for rabbits.
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Tom, President of The Old Rabbit Hunter's Association, standing in an upper field during the first day of rabbit hunting.
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Bernadette was thirsty after running rabbits for six hours.
About the Author: Christopher Kimball
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HI Cris
love the show.!
HARD COOKED EGGS…???
any chance of letting us know the best and easiest way to make Hard Cooked eggs… I’m having difficulty peeling the eggs even though there are 15 ways of screwing them up on the internet.. Please have a show on this and perhaps having the Science editor stepping in on whats going on with the membranes sticking and cold water apps and all the other stuff too..
thanks Michael Ammed
Chris
I really enjoy all your hunting tales. Although it seems down here in Tennessee the stories are embleshed more. Like this deer season when my husband came home and told me he got an 11 point. When I got to the deer to help him drag it out, it had one spike on each side. Two ones together is an 11.
I would love if you shared some game recipes. My freezer is full of venison.
Thanks Angie
You must live in southern VT because we received 6 inches of snow in the Stowe/Morrisville area!
@mnm22c, they have covered boiled eggs and how to peel them (the greatest tip they have ever given, and the reason I subscribe!)
Season 1, ATK, how to cook eggs!
running rabbits doesn’t sound like much fun for the rabbits.
Great letter, thanks so much! For years I’ve tried to get my wife to eat rabbit, to no avail. When I was as a boy, we ate it all the time, as it was very cheap, now it is at least $9.95 per pound in San Diego. Needless to say, there are many happy rabbits safe here in Southern California. My mother would always say it was a four legged chicken, and what is worse, I believed that hooey for years! I once asked her, why she was so against eating the little buggers and she said that as a child growing up in Maryland she used to watch them from her bedroom in the morning, scamper across the back lawn. Maybe at the alter, I should have asked her about eating rabbit before I uttered those fateful words, “I do.”
Visited Vermont last October, simply beautiful!
I am in the same boat as Angie. Lots of game in the freezer. From Venison I do a lot of Schnitzel. If it is a young animal I take the front shoulders with the bone still inside and into a oven bag and make a roast.
Thanks Chris for you rabbit story. It gave me the courage to talk about game meat.
Good Morning Chris, I thoroughly enjoyed your hunting pictures and I also enjoy your magazines and TV shows. I am an 84 yr old newcomer to both. I am a naive Ohioan that has lived in California for many years and who still misses the fall and winters in Ohio. I am a fairly decent cook ( having learned from an expert, Mom, who didn’t always need a written recipe) but I have learned a few things from you – some interesting facts and methods. I like your newsletters. Keep up the good work!!
Chris: I enjoyed the rabbit hunt photos you posted…and I always love reading about Bernadette’s adventures. I have a beagle, too — Barney. I wish I had a farm or ranch so he could really run with the rabbits!
Eat well…Jill
Hi Chris. Grew up hunting rabbits with beagles back in KY and will never forget the sound of the dog coming my way. Mom’s gone now, and she never wrote down her rabbit or squirrel recipes. Would really appreciate it if you had one to share!
Joe
Love eating wild rabbit. My favorite recipe is to dredge the rabbit pieces in seasoned flour, brown it in butter and then place it in the crock pot. Add 6 (or more or less) of whole cloves and about 4 or 5 whole bay leaves in among the pieces. Cook on low 6 hours. (Works for squirrel as well.) I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
Love the newsletters & particularly enjoy the photos. Had to comment on the Farmall with the white Christmas lights. My dad, a farmer in the CT River Valley in a small town on the borders of both NH and VT went from a pair of draft horses to a used Farmall. My sister & I had such fun driving the tractor up & down the rows of dug potatoes while Dad loaded the potatoes on the wagon. And when we were very little, Dad bought us two Easter Bunnies for Easter – thought they were both males. NOT! When we ended up with over 100 bunnies, Dad said we had to start eating them. To this day, I love the taste of rabbit, but hate thinking about where our first taste rabbit meat came from. P.S. I’m now 63 and my dad’s old Farmall is still being used by another farmer in my little hometown! How’s that for a long life!
Eating bunnies??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Christopher I enjoy your newsletters and photos of your farm and the Vermont country side its just beautiful. I would also like to say that I purchased a bottle of your Two Pigs Farm maple syrup last fall and it excellent. I hope you will have a great syrup season this year, however, it appears you have not had much of a winter as to date, so I’m not sure how it will affect the sap from your maple trees.Good luck with the rabbit hunts, its a beautiful sound to here beagle’s hot on the trail of a cotton tail!
Hi Chris, been following CI and you since your first issues…
I love your ‘Letters From Vermont’ and every recipe is always successful. I cooked and baked for 17 years professionally when I was younger, also owned a doughnut shop. Life changes. Would like to see some specific recipes, especially for baking for Celiacs. I can’t find a bread or bun that’s actually worth a hoot or hold up to a good burger and fixins. I ask as I have Celiac Disease… don’t see anything on your programs or anything on Food Network channel for Celiacs. Although I suspect that now that Paula Dean has ‘come out’ as a Diabetic that will get more emphasis… I love reading CI and watching ATK as much as I like the cooking and eating.. You do a wonderful service to all cooks of America.. Thanks and keep cooking!