Like cooking, I never follow the recipe. <<<
Laughing and thinking that you have been reading my mind.
I rarely follow a recipe, I read them and then someday, throw something in the pot and cook it.
As I post the recipes, I will often think “What will ‘they’ do to this one, to change it”.
I laugh at the ‘take a can of gravy’, there was a time when I made a gallon of it and used it kinds of ways, LOL, sometimes even as gravy.
Yes, dried rabbit is the best you can get, but we used it fresh too on orchids/cymbidiums, until Bill discovered that all those rabbits were being grown for the fertilizer and the kids would not eat them.....
I am smarter now, if I had to sneak a rabbit on the table, I would cook it and then shred and put it in tacos, etc.
A widow in Ramona raised her 5 kids on the wild rabbits, she even canned them. She hid them in enchilada type sauces, and it was nothing to stop by and find she had just canned 20 or 30 quarts of them.
I have not tried smoking foods, did learn the different tastes from the campfire woods, if I had a choice, which was not always the case in the desert.