Tuesday 28 February 2012

Day 18


Sorry Blogger isn't letting me upload photos today! :(

Todays Menu is a direct result of a real 1940s style shortage at the butcher!! I went in to our local butcher earlier in the week and asked for OxTail. He didn't have any but would order some in from his supplier. I went back today and found out his supplier had none either - bother!! As I walked out the door I uttered those words I had been dreading since the start of this experiment...."You haven't got any rabbit instead have you?" Of course being a country village - he did!

It shouldn't have but my heart sank. A few people have told me how rabbit got them through the war, either wild or from the garden, rabbit pie was a weekly dish in the country. So I hid my sqeamishness, asked the butcher to chop it into 'unidentifyable portions' and took ine home to make rabbit and ham pie for supper.





Breakfast

Toast & Marmalade

Lunch

Soup & Bread

Supper

Rabbit & Ham Pie, Kale and Mash

I told the kids it was chicken thighs and ham! The children had thirds and asked to take it cold for lunch the next day!!!

2 comments:

  1. Maxine that's outrageous! Are you ever going to tell them?! (did it taste like chicken btw?!) x

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  2. Based on my distress when someone told me they had once fed me veal whilst telling me it was pork, I would suggest that you never tell them the truth.

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