Stomach full of rabbit

YOU SHOULD EAT RABBIT BEFORE THE MONTH END 

I am writing this from my cozy bed. With a full stomach after emptying a hot plate of rabbit pepper soup, pounded yam and a 75cl bottle of Kunu.

Sorry I did not take pictures during the course of preparing the protein pepper sweetness rich plate of rabbit stew. The aftermath of consuming this rabbit stew got me so excited and energized to write and share with you this sweet evening experience.

The rabbit is a male White New Zealand, and about 5 months old. There has been a lot of fighting lately between this particular male rabbit and other rabbits in my herd and the rabbit had to go. After all, my body needed energy and nourishment after a hectic week.

All things set I took the rabbit to my slaughter house, slaughtered and hung it to allow blood drain out. I returned to the kitchen to get the ingredients ready.

I fetch a handful of ripe fresh pepper and one large onion. After washing the pepper and onion, I sliced the onion into a waiting mortar, added the pepper and started pounding. Two minutes later the mixture of pepper and onion is ready. 

I also got dry ginger spice made with ginger and turmeric ready.

I returned to the rabbit in the slaughter house with a sharper knife. This time I am going to eviscerate the rabbit and take out the content of its bowel. The liver of a rabbit is what I often go for first after cutting; the liver of rabbit tunes me on. Every other thing in the rabbit’s stomach and chest gets buried.

After removing the intestines, lungs and other things I set out to the kitchen to make use of the gas cooker to burn the rabbit’s hair just like they do with goats. But I met someone there who told me that she's making use of the whole kitchen. I pondered for a few seconds how I was going to get fire to accomplish my mission.

Bingo! Those scrap woods that have been laying waste around the compound can finally be of use. And as a camp boy, before anyone in the house could say jack the fire had started. The woods were burning with furry because they were dry and I added plastic and rubber to fuel the fire.

I hurriedly placed the rabbit over the fire, allowing the fur to burn for few seconds then removed it and used my sharp knife to scrape off the burned fur and returned the rabbit over the fire. I kept on like this until every furry part became fur-less, and then in about 30 minutes the rabbit was totally fur-less and the skin soft to touch. I was ready for the next stage.

I washed the whole carcass in clean water before cutting it into 4 large pieces. A deep pot with cover was already sitting near.

I rinsed the four pieces again and put them into the deep pot. I also added the pepper and onion paste, three pinch of salt, four cubes of seasoning, dry ginger spice and two cups of water. I hurriedly covered the pot and mounted it unto the fire place.

After 1hr of cooking on fire, family members started coming out to do those things they never planned... It was the sweet aroma from the pot of rabbit stew that's now causing commotion in the house. It got to a point that a neighbor who seldom shows his face opened his window facing my compound. I have never seen that window being opened in 4 years, and I was sure he was peeping through that window.

Finally the protein rich delicious rabbit stew was ready to be served. I have been patiently swallowing saliva for the past 80 minutes.

The lady in the house had already prepared wonderful pounded yam and all was set. Prayers were said and the match began with a bottle of Kunu in the middle of the table.

The whole affair ended in 30 minutes and I was back in my room to write this piece.

Glory be to God.