Comments on: Real German Cuisine Challenge: Kaninchen mit Pilzen (Rabbit with mushrooms)

By: Kahlua

Kahlua — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:28:13 +0000

Hi
Just glanced at the website and saw a recipe for rabbit and then a couple of pics of (live) rabbits and didn’t know what to think!
Am busy baking Christmas cookies-we like vanilla crescents best.

My ex relatives used to get tons of real Dresdener stollen, sent to them for Christmas by relatives in the Eastern part of Germany, and eat it every single weekend until Easter (Unfortunately in the former DDR they didn’t have many other products, not even bananas). They had the raisin and the almond kind. It has turned me off stollen forever!

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:44:17 +0000

Just for clarification: is it unusual in the States or in the UK to eat rabbit? I didn’t know that. I know it’s quite common in France, too.
We had rabbits too when I was a child. Nobody but an awful uncle was able to kill them. But everybody ate them. I believe, this was my first reason to become vegetarian.

Re Stollen: my mother used to make 12 large ones in time for Christmas every year. Some of them she gave away as gifts. But every year a few days before Christmas she had to make another batch – all the Stollen were eaten up! She had tons of butter going into them and hot, liquid butter on top of them after baking before the Stollen were thickly coated with icing sugar. Her Stollen always have a filling of marzipan. Yummy!
.-= Molly´s last blog ..In Christmas Mood already? =-.

By: Blythe

Blythe — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:19:48 +0000

I gave this one a try!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblythespirit/4044540237/
I think it could be delicious with pork as well. Perfect for a cool autumn afternoon.
.-= Blythe´s last blog ..Lessons =-.

By: CN Heidelberg

CN Heidelberg — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:24:12 +0000

Finally posted this one!
http://cndrnh.blogspot.com/2009/10/amiexpats-kaninchen-mit-pilzen-rabbit.html

By: rita

rita — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:39:20 +0000

FOUR stollen?!?!?!? you’ll need a break from baking after that!!!! honestly. it usually takes three people just to prep the ingredients — and then those three people go looking for a fourth victim to knead the dough.

ps. hare doesn’t taste anything like bunny-rabbit because hare is game.
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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:24:11 +0000

enjoyed this dish- loved the mustard and thyme flavor. Just tasted my dish – we are going to eat it tonight for dinner. I think that rabbit is like a combination of chicken and turkey in taste.
Your frozen mushrooms look like you used fresh! I don’t think it matters since it is cooked for a while longer after adding them.
Looking forward to the mussels this week – one of my favorite dishes!
.-= Stephanie´s last blog ..Kaninchen mit Pilzen (Rabbit with mushrooms) =-.

By: Christina Geyer

Christina Geyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:41:52 +0000

@ed: I know, I’ve seen them. Rainer’s best friend used to raise them, so did Rainer’s grandfather. Still too close to fluffy, happy bunnies for me. I don’t much approve of them being locked up in a tiny hutch their whole lives either. I offered to make this using wild hare (I figure they’ve lived in the wild and had a pretty good life, so I wouldn’t mind eating them), but Rainer said he still couldn’t eat a hare, too close to our bunnies. I’ve never had rabbit, so I have no idea how they taste, I know chicken and rabbit taste nothing alike, but I figure it’s a meat that could also work well in the recipe.

By: Ed Ward

Ed Ward — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:29:58 +0000

Hey, Christina, have you ever seen the rabbits they raise for food? Hardly the cute little bunnies in your picture. They're huge, fat, stupid-looking critters. And rabbit does taste good, trust me. Not at all like chicken, although you were right in that the consistency of the flesh is similar. .-= Ed Ward´s last blog ..Fall Comes To The Market =-.

By: Christina Geyer

Christina Geyer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:03:58 +0000

@rita: Not just one Stollen, FOUR!

By: rita

rita — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:03:51 +0000

made the rabbit yeaterday and had a couple of friends over. they all loved it. unfortunately i forgot to take pictures of the prepared dish so i’ll have to wait till tonight to write the follow-up. i still have one piece of meat as leftovers so that’ll have to do.

ps. you seriously want to make Christstollen yourself? woah! you’ll be in for quite some work there.