Rabbit stew (bone in)
Cut your rabbit up so you have the four legs and the back section(I cut the back section into 2 pieces but it's not necessary)
Dredge the pieces in flour
In a dutch oven on medium heat add 3-4Tbsp of unsalted butter and brown the rabbit on all sides
Once browned, add one medium onion(thinly sliced) and a cup of celery(=about 3 individual stalks), salt and pepper, spices.
Let that sweat for a few minutes and then add 4 cups of water or chicken broth and 4 cups of
dry red wine (I wouldn't know what a dry red is, I just used a cheap bottle of wine)
Bring that to a boil uncovered. Once boiling, reduce to a simmer and cover and let cook for 2 hours
After the 2 hours are up, add 2 cups of diced carrots, 4 med potatoes peeled and diced, and 4oz of sauteed mushrooms and cook until the veggies are getting soft(it's basically done once the veggies are soft enough for your taste, the next steps are optional).
You can thicken it with a flour and water mixture at this point if you want. Just make sure to stir the flour and water so there aren't any lumps before stirring it into the stew.
At this point we drop spoonfuls of biscuit dough on top of the still simmering stew and cover it back up. The dough takes about 10 minutes to turn into nice dumplings.
Enjoy!
And now I can go back to feeling like Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny...
Seriously! I went out hunting the other day after it snowed. Saw zero tracks. Went out on my lunch break and there were rabbit tracks all over my morning tracks!
