Hasenfeffer (Sour Rabbit Stew) SUBMITTED BY: NXNER "Original German rabbit stew recipe passed down from my great-grandmother who immigrated to US in 1889. This is a lot of work to make but well worth it. It is an acquired taste dish; once hooked, you can't get enough. Serve with fresh mashed potatoes and celery sticks. Use the stock as gravy for mashed potatoes. Always tastes better as leftovers. Hope you enjoy!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PREP TIME 1 Hr COOK TIME 1 Hr 15 Min READY IN 10 Hrs 15 Min INGREDIENTS 2 3/4 cups red wine vinegar 3 cups water 1 1/2 tablespoons white sugar 8 whole cloves 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 5 stalks celery, chopped 1 lemon, thinly sliced 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon pickling spice 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 (2 1/2 pound) rabbit, cleaned and cut into pieces 3 tablespoons vegetable oil DIRECTIONS In a large pot, combine the water, white sugar, whole cloves, onion, celery, lemon, cinnamon, ground cloves, salt, pickling spice and black pepper. Bring to a boil, then turn off and allow to cool. Place the rabbit pieces into the mixture to marinate. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spread flour out onto a parchment or aluminum foil lined baking sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the flour is a light brown color. Remove the rabbit from the marinade and pat dry. Strain the marinade, and discard the solids. Reserve the liquid for later. Heat the oil in a deep skillet or Dutch oven over medium heat. Coat the chicken with the toasted flour. Place into the hot oil, and cook until browned on both sides. Remove from the pan, and set aside. If there is oil left in the pan, sprinkle enough of the toasted flour over it to absorb the liquid. In a jar with a lid, mix 1/2 cup of the marinade with 1/4 cup of the remaining toasted flour. Close the lid, and shake vigorously until well blended with no lumps. Heat the pan with the rabbit drippings over low heat. Gradually stir in the marinade mixture, stirring constantly until slightly thickened. Return the rabbit pieces to the pan. Cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour, or until the meat is falling off of the bones. You may remove the bones prior to serving if desired.

I am about to compost my Pineapple Upsidedown Cake. Every spring it gets bigger and bigger and shows all kinds of promiss, the it just seems to go limp. By the end of June it looks like it should be September if I gaged the seasons on PUSDC. Besides, even using its acronym it has more letters than June. I will be a defender of Ginko Craig. I have told this story in this forum often. So I will make it short. You can take GC, cut it up into single eye divisions and pot them, plant them the next spring, and the next year have a very nice compact variegated green with white margin, medium-small hosta that flowers profusely. How can one hate a hosta like that. I moved just one of about 50 I had propogated from 5 fall sale purchases I had in Arkansas to IL and it is lovely and maintains itself very nicely. Les

I have some old nylon plastic circulars I bought used on Ebay, so I do not know what they are really made of or by whom, but I love them. The "hip" at the join between the needle and the cable is so gradual and smooth that my yarn never hangs up there. And my hands do not get cold with these needles. I also like metal needles but in the winter my hands get cold using them. I have made larger knitting needles of wood dowel, and they work great, especially for slippery yarns. I have not tried bamboo. But you might try making the bamboo more slippery by rubbing them with waxed paper.

If space is limited (choice of either loveseat or one chair, not enough room for two chairs without crowding) and you need to maximize the number of people you can seat in that room, I'd definitely go with the loveseat. I've never had a problem with getting two people to sit on a loveseat, but unless someone sits on the arms (bad!) or the people involved are very small you can't get more than one person in a typical chair. It's also more comfortable for one person to spread out with her feet up on a loveseat. ;-) We bought a loveseat (really a settee) for our LR because there was only room with the couch for either a small loveseat and a single chair. Since the room is small enough that only two other chairs could fit into it, we went for maximum seating capacity. :-) One full-length couch IS mandatory in our household for napping, although since DH is only 5'9" we didn't need one of the monster-long ones, thank heavens. (We don't have a formal LR.) I do really dislike having only loveseats and no couch though, unless it's a formal space, because as Ronniroo says you can't really lie down (even 5'2" me finds it a bit crowded). I have never had a problem with getting three people on a couch though (in my main social group, sometimes people even will argue over who gets the middle spot if particularly cuddleworthy people are on the ends! LOL). I wonder why so many people have that problem. I mean, if you're sprawling with your feet up on the couch, or if you have enough seating where a third person doesn't need to sit on the couch, that's something else entirely. I don't often see three people on a couch with another empty seating item right next to it, unless the grouping is spaced so widely that people have to speak overly loudly to be heard, they're plotting something ;-) or they just want to be cuddly.