Dinner thread?

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Sometimes I wonder why we raise beefies, as I have just cooked the best ever Thai dish "Kaeng khiao waan kratay" (green curry using rabbit instead of beef)

Here's a rundown on raising your own beef: Calving difficulties, learn how to pull calf out of mum cause a big bull from 3 paddocks away jumped the fence behind your back and did the deed instead of the wee angus you purchased to do the job, calves run around silly as buggery doing their evening frolic thing, run headlong into a tree. Dead. Mastitis in the dairy girls as the bull throws small calves, and they don't drink enough milk off mum for the first 3 weeks to stop mastitis in mum, Droughts, so start using your silage well before winter. Learn how to hoof trim the big girls that develop winkle picker hooves. Learn how to rebuild the cattle crush after the girl who needed her hooves trimmed destroyed it once you began tying her up! Having to wait three months to get a spot in the meat packing plant as, well, 2022 I guess sums it up well.

Now rabbit: Mow the bottom flat in the steep valley behind the house to promote good new grass growth. Wait 6 weeks. Go shoot all the fat little rabbits dining on fresh grass.

Skin/gut back half of rabbit. Put in ice cream container with lid on in fridge for 4-5 days. take out of fridge. If meat smells gamey, cut meat off carcass and cube, submerge in water with a couple of capfuls of white vinegar in it for half an hour, rinse, then use as below.

Dice a couple of small onions, fry in coconut fat. Remove and set aside when soft. More coconut oil, fry half a bottle of Valcom green curry paste in it for a minute, then chuck in half a tin of coconut cream and stir on mid heat till the oil begins to separate. Throw in cubed rabbit and crank up to high, stirring all the time for a couple of minutes. Then throw in the rest of the can of coconut creme, stir then cover and lower to simmer for 10 min. Put in the onions and half a cup of button mushrooms, and bring back up to the boil. Simmer. Season with a teaspoon of fish oil and a teaspoon of sugar. Stir in a cup of pre heated green beans for a minute, then serve with Jasmine steamed rice.

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