Eating Road Kill

You may remeber that luschious was branded a murderer for accidentely killing a hare which eneded up in the feezer of the restuarant where she works? Well, thursday night was the night selected to eat this free meal. The people here let nothing like this go to waste especially as hare is considered a real treat. It had been taken out of the freezer and allowed to thaw out in the cold store and then hung for four days in the garage to tenderise the meat. When we arrived on the thursday evening it had been partially skinned and put onto a small spit as it was to be cooked in front of a log fire on a rotating spit. The head was left on and the fur on the legs and tail was also left on!
The other guests arrived and as we sat down for the starter, a delicious soupe au fromage ( a cheese and cabbage soup that isn't a soup!) the hare was brought out and put in front of the fire to cook. Every now and then the chef would get up and baste it in the juices coming from the hare. As we finished the starter he put a metal cone on a long rod into the fire to heat up and when red hot added a huge dollop of beef fat into it, set fire to it and as the liquid burning fat trickles out of a small hole in the bottom of the cone he pours it across the top of the rotating hare.
This is done 3 or 4 times and then after "cooking" for about half an hour the hare is taken of the spit and jointed and served up on a big platter complete with the head and tail as decoration.
The meat was quite tender and shall we say not at all well done! but very very very tasty. All washed down with an excellent 1999 bottle of extremely good red wine. ahh yummy.
Next was the cheese and more red wine followed by desert which is always accompanied by champagne. I do like these local customs!!
All in all a very good evening and as it was the first time i or luscious have eaten hare a different experience.
Bon appetit. Hopefully eventually we will have some pictures of the flaming fat being poured.