By David Draper

Wild Chef Reader Levi Banks is back with a great-looking rabbit dish, along with a good story about getting kids to eat, and enjoy, wild game. Congrats to Banks for raising such an open-minded daughter. I don’t have any kid stories, but I do have some unconventional tacos to throw into this week’s Food Fight.

Draper’s Axis Deer Tacos

My love for tacos is well known to Wild Chef readers, but what to do when you’re trying to cut a few carbs out of your diet? Use lettuce instead. I’ll admit it’s not quite the same as a traditional Tex-Mex meal, but the delicious axis deer backstrap dressed with homemade guacamole and pickled onions almost made up for the missing flour and lard.

Levi Banks’s Mediterranean Rabbit

One morning we were sitting outside eating breakfast and watching some neighborhood rabbits run around the yard. After pointing them out to my nearly 4-year-old daughter, I realized what was on the menu for supper that night and told her we were having rabbit for supper. When she said, “Yum!” I knew my wife and I must be doing something right. Later that night she told my dad over the phone about having the rabbit for supper and how good it was and thanks for giving us some.

Don’t forget to send your best food photos in to fswildchef@gmail.com. We’ll feature the best of them in an upcoming Food Fight.

Comments (7)

from CL3 wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Both look excellent... Just was feeling that deer lettuce taco, particularly because we have some great lettuce coming up now.

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from dgyoung wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Cute little girls and rabbits....How can you beat that?

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from Koldkut wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Had to give it to Dave for the picture alone, both sound delicious, but The color contrast is better in the pic, but the rabbit sounds just excellent.

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from ejpaul1 wrote 49 weeks 19 min ago

As previously mentioned, the axis gets my vote on presentation alone. I would however like to know the recipie for the rabbit dish. Going to rabbit hunt this year and could use some good ideas.

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from Gtbigsky wrote 48 weeks 6 days ago

As usual both entrees look delicious! but put a gun to my head and I am going to chose the "tacos" (lettuce wraps) because its got guacamole on it. The lettuce might be refreshing but i would use a corn shell or flour tortilla.

Carbs be damned! If its carbs you're worried about just get more exercise! weight loss or maintaining weight is just caloric output vs input.

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from Red Salas wrote 45 weeks 5 days ago

Both look delicious. Never had deer tacos. Ill have to try it sometime.

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from dgyoung wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Cute little girls and rabbits....How can you beat that?

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from CL3 wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Both look excellent... Just was feeling that deer lettuce taco, particularly because we have some great lettuce coming up now.

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from Koldkut wrote 49 weeks 1 day ago

Had to give it to Dave for the picture alone, both sound delicious, but The color contrast is better in the pic, but the rabbit sounds just excellent.

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from ejpaul1 wrote 49 weeks 19 min ago

As previously mentioned, the axis gets my vote on presentation alone. I would however like to know the recipie for the rabbit dish. Going to rabbit hunt this year and could use some good ideas.

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from Gtbigsky wrote 48 weeks 6 days ago

As usual both entrees look delicious! but put a gun to my head and I am going to chose the "tacos" (lettuce wraps) because its got guacamole on it. The lettuce might be refreshing but i would use a corn shell or flour tortilla.

Carbs be damned! If its carbs you're worried about just get more exercise! weight loss or maintaining weight is just caloric output vs input.

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from Red Salas wrote 45 weeks 5 days ago

Both look delicious. Never had deer tacos. Ill have to try it sometime.

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