RCP: Rabbit with prune - perfect dish for wine-tastings!

In the last weeks, I cooked for wine-tastings and this dish is very helpful as it taste better on Day 2 and the food doesn´t influence the wines.
It was a perfect match with a Bordeaux-Tasting and you could made it one day before, only reheat it for 10-15min.
So, you don´t spend so much time in the kitchen.

Ingredients (serves 5):
5 rabbit haunch´s
120g dry prune
600g. carrots and optional 1 stick celery
4-5 shallots
1 stick rosemary+thyme and optional 2 leaves laurel
500ml veal broth/stock+ 100ml on Day 2
400ml red wine + 100ml on Day 2

View pictures and instructions at:
Preparation

Very nice, Martin. But what happened to the carrots between slides 4 and 5? Wichtelmännchen!?

Gary,

you have sharp eyes!

The photo 4 was from another "Rabitt with prune" version, sometimes in heat of cooking I forget making photos. Then I add a photo
afterwards. BTW, if you want to see the finished dish, voilà......

http://www.belmaati.com/gallery/display ... 242&pos=32

you have sharp eyes!

That's because I eat a lot of carrots.

you have sharp eyes!

That's because I eat a lot of carrots.

[Jenise]

Gary, a friend of mine once told me that as a young boy, his mother told him eating carrots would improve his eyesight. On another occasion she told him that looking at pictures of naked girls would ruin his eyesight. Then and only then did he start eating his carrots: and of course, kept looking at the pictures.

Gary, a friend of mine once told me that as a young boy, his mother told him eating carrots would improve his eyesight. On another occasion she told him that looking at pictures of naked girls would ruin his eyesight. Then and only then did he start eating his carrots: and of course, kept looking at the pictures.

Right topic mentioned,Jenise. Here comes FOOD-Porn.........the finished dish of Rabbit with prune.

http://www.belmaati.com/gallery/display ... 242&pos=32

[Jenise]

Food porn indeed! It's all the glasses of wine that really puts it over the edge, though. Up to that point it's just healthy voyeurism.

Gary, a friend of mine once told me that as a young boy, his mother told him eating carrots would improve his eyesight. On another occasion she told him that looking at pictures of naked girls would ruin his eyesight. Then and only then did he start eating his carrots: and of course, kept looking at the pictures.

Q.E.D. There is balance in nature.

Thanks Martin for posting this...I have a whole thing of prunes sitting in my fridge and I have been wondering what to do with them...this sounds perfect, although I may have to substitute chicken as I am not sure if my butchers has rabbit.

I love your websites...it's fun to look at the pics. btw, Welcome!

Thank you for the flowers, Maria!

Of course, chicken is also possible! Chicken and rabbit is a kind of meat which has not so much own flavor, so both are suitable
for thinks like prune etc. At the spanish island of Mallorca, they make the same rabbit stew with almonds, raisins and cinnamon based
on their arabic influence. And taste very good!

All the best,
Martin

P.S. Maria, be careful I used dry prunes!

[Jenise]

P.S. Maria, be careful I used dry prunes!

Martin, no problem with misinterpretation by most Americans--to us, a 'prune' is always dried fruit, where 'plum' would be the fresh version. It might amuse you to know that prunes also enjoy a certain reputation as a treatment for constipation as well as an unflattering term for an old woman of less-than-congenial disposition, such that the marketing organization for Oregon's plum crops have officially dropped 'prune' in favor of 'dried plum'.

...as well as an unflattering term for an old woman of less-than-congenial disposition, such that the marketing organization for Oregon's plum crops have officially dropped 'prune' in favor of 'dried plum'.

Funny how a "sugar plum" can turn into an old "prune" with age..

[Jenise]

Funny how a "sugar plum" can turn into an old "prune" with age..

Won't happen to us though, will it...Sugar? (smooch)

Nah...we'll never be thin enough to wrinkle, love. What was Gary's description again ? Oh yes, that's right..."Crisco in a latex glove"...

Nah...we'll never be thin enough to wrinkle, love. What was Gary's description again ? Oh yes, that's right..."Crisco in a latex glove"...

That sounds like something I'd say, but did I say that? "Crisco," of course, is a venerable nickname suggesting that someone is "fat in the can."

oh you all crack me up!

Martin - yes, I was also talking about dried prunes...although I have bought the "ready to eat" which are "reconstituted" prunes in prune juice. But I won't be using them for this recipe .

That sounds like something I'd say, but did I say that?

Yes, you did. It's far too witty to be something I made up.

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That sounds like something I'd say, but did I say that?

Yes, you did. It's far too witty to be something I made up.

It must be age. I can't remember what happened yesterday. Well, at least we're on the right topic for old folk ... prunes. Poor Martin, however, we've hijacked his lovely thread. Maybe he will do wild boar with cranberry and orange sauce next. That was the first fancy meal I had in Berlin, in some forest restaurant, overlooking a lake. Det war jut!

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Det war jut!

WOW, you understand the berlin language, too! Chapeau, Gary........

Det war jut!

WOW, you understand the berlin language, too! Chapeau, Gary.......

P.S. Maria, be careful I used dry prunes!

Martin, no problem with misinterpretation by most Americans--to us, a 'prune' is always dried fruit, where 'plum' would be the fresh version. It might amuse you to know that prunes also enjoy a certain reputation as a treatment for constipation as well as an unflattering term for an old woman of less-than-congenial disposition, such that the marketing organization for Oregon's plum crops have officially dropped 'prune' in favor of 'dried plum'.

Oh la la, Jenise......

I fondly remember the ad campaign that Stan Freberg did for Sunsweet prunes. They were marketing pitted prunes for the first time. So the slogan he came up with was:

"Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles. Sunsweet marches on!"

-Paul W.