Posh Hare Stew Recipe

I recieved an email asking for a Hare recipe so Tony this is for you :)
So in a world when zombies exist it may not be practical to make posh hare stew But there is no reason why you cant cook it at home or outside now, practice makes perfect afterall!

This is a beautifully rich hare stew that will warm and satisfy, and is so tasty those not fond of game will ask for seconds. Many people serve hare with ale but I think that hare can be rather metallic/bitter in taste and prefer a sweet sauce to really bring out the flavours. You can of course substitute the hare for other game you have caught such as rabbit or pheasant.

1 hare serves 2-4 people

Ingredients-

•      Flour- 1tbs     
•     Salt and pepper- to taste
•     Butter/fat/oil -1tbs
•     Stock (your choice)- 1pint
•     All spice-1-3 pinches depending on your taste
•     Red currant jelly- 1tbs
•     Sherry/ Port/Sweet Red Wine- 125ml
•     Bouquet Garni- 1
•     Hare- 1
•     Onion-1
•     Celery- 2 sticks
•     Carrots- 2

Recipe-

• Skin, gut and joint your hare

• Dice onion, celery and carrot

• Sprinkle your jointed hare with flour and fry off  in butterfor a few minutes on each side in a large cooking pot.

•  Remove hare joints and fry off diced onion, celery, and carrot in same pan untill softened, add water if it begins to stick

• Add the hare back into the pot with 1 pint of stock, a pinch of salt and pepper, 3 pinches of all spice (cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon are suitable substitute) and your bouquet garni (a selection of your favourite herbs will substitute) Simmer the mixture for 2 hours. Remove the portions of hare, pick the meat from the bones, place the meat back into the pan and place the bones to one side for a stock or soup tomorrow.

• Add a table spoon of red current jelly or any sweet jam/jelly you have made from berries and a glass of sweet sherry, port or red wine.Simmer for a futher 30 mins add flour if you would like a thicker sauce. 
• Serve this dish with mash potato and veg or camp fire bread
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
   If you would like any recipe ideas please do not hesitate to ask! if you would like me to publish photos and a how to guide on skinning, gutting and jointing hares and rabbits please let me know :)  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Introduction

Hey, Thank you for coming to take a look at my blog, I know i am about 8 years late joining in on the blog scene but here are my reasons why.

The long term goal is to write a book called the zombie survival food bible which would be a recipe book, and a how to guide for basic foraging, hunting, cleaning animals, preserving, fishing, fire building etc. As I started to write I realised the detail I wanted to put into the book and the extra skills I would have to learn really will take many years to complete. The more I write more ideas came to mind and now the content for the book that I want to write is really more like an encyclopaedia.  I also wanted everything thing I do to be photographed to prove that everything I write has been done by me first hand and I'm not just ripping off other peoples recipes etc

For those of you wondering why its the 'Zombie' survival guide and not just a plain old survival guide there a few reasons- Firstly who doesn't love zombies? Secondly, this adds an element of fun too the book and challenge pages such a looting etc. Third of all there are so many laws in place and rules for foraging, hunting etc that i wanted to keep the book as simple as possible. in a world full of zombies the law no longer exists as we know it.

So why blog now?? Yesterday was a bad day! worse than bad! Heartbreaking! I went to my chest freezer to get a duck out for dinner and the contents had somehow defrosted ... sank into a pile of blood, fruit, fur and nastiness and then refroze. I do not have a penny to my name as I had just returned from holiday and now I do not have my back up supply of food which I intended to live off for the next 5-6 weeks.

After a day of sulking, sobbing and self pity i decided its time to do something positive! Its time to pull out the big guns and source my food without a trip to the shops. Luckily I have a fantastic family and outstanding friends who are willing to help me on my adventure. Mum very kindly fed me last night with Eggs from her hens, Potatoes from a neighbour and Gammon from the shop. My cousin called round later last night after hearing about the freezer incident with a bag off scrumped potatoes, foraged blackberries and a wood pigeon her friends cat had brought home.

I will blog intensively over the next few weeks on my meals, i do have tins, herbs, spices etc in the kitchen to add to recipes. But also i will publish other sections that I have already written and intend to publish in the book in years to come.

If you have any questions, Idea's, feedback or input please get in touch!

One final word- I am dyslexic, my grammer is appalling, i use lots of smiley's, I incorrectly use -;"?()  and even when i proof read things i get it wrong and I write how I speak! Pleaseeee bare with me. As my very good friend Chan would say 'I was born to be real, not to be perfect'

Thanks again!
Summer