After a starter of cold duck's blood in a soup dish topped with golden, crisp fried shallots, we were served a huge platter of roasted carcass, and encouraged to toss the bones over our shoulders for the stray dogs to chew on.
Meanwhile, put the carcass in a deep pan with the rest of the herbs, the carrot and onion.
All that remained was a skinny carcass of bedraggled wet feathers on a patch of bilberries, the tag's antenna sticking into the air.
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Four hours of solid stitching later – of slippery hands and yelling at instructions, of holding the needle with pliers because sewing through three layers of shoe leather is basically like pushing a buffalo carcass through a catflap – and the name Simple Way started to look like a sarcastic threat.
I'll add a pile of shredded chicken if there is a carcass left from the weekend, but more often than not I'll do without.
I am eating the rabbit," complete with photos of its carcass on her kitchen counter and her cat scoffing the entrails.
Using the whole bird also allows you to make your own stock from the carcass for the sauce, of which more later.
And the press came in like birds chewing up what was left of the carcass.
Henry, Roux and Larousse add chicken stock to the sauce, with the last sensibly suggesting making this from the chicken carcass.
When opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged this week Labor would stand by the party's position of pricing greenhouse gas emissions, Education Minister Christopher Pyne described the policy as "a rotten, stinking carcass" that he would hang around Shorten's neck until the next election in 2016.
