$1.50 a pound, I think? If my memory is worth anything, for pork it's either a couple hams after Christmas/Easter or shoulder meat. The former gets cubed up and made into a litany of soups. When I venture over to the Mexican grocery store, I've gotten neck bones and those are great to let simmer in tomato sauce.
And the Chinese are no longer buying it, so prices will continue to drop until through hardship, supplies readjust.
This will also cause other meat prices to fall for a bit as folks take advantage of the cheaper meats.
Really bad here for our farmers. A shipment of pork containing ractopamine was discovered so China shut the door. All a big scam. Canada doesn't use ractopamine in our exports and the 'Canadian' labels turn out to be forged.
Interesting story, I virtually never eat pork, in fact maybe and average of 1 or 2 slices of bacon a month and can't remember buying chops, loin, or roasts even once in the last 20yr. Traveling in China or Japan was different an occasional dish was unavoidable. I figure I balance out (very little 🙂) the lack of lamb consumption in the US.
We'll see if this is a continuing habit but I'm more the opposite (although probably still more than the average on lamb), mostly because my cooking habits are heavy in the veggies with accents of meat, almost as a flavoring than a core component, where cured pork shines. Otherwise I will get the occasional pork butt/shoulder (the latter mostly) which gets made into carnitas or various pasta sauces. That said I hardly buy chicken, not presently having ready access to a grill. Lamb/beef are a restaurant food, flying well behind fish tacos. 😀
For better or worse, career/life has me more in production/batch mode for food with experimentation happening in the context of my routine than really really playing in the kitchen. I'm sure I'll get back to a greater percentage of the latter at some point.
Experimentation and batch cooking are not mutually exclusive as long as you accept that you may have to eat a failure 4 times 🙂. Its the only way we can guarantee home cooked food every night.
Great discovery is that you can make Roti dough, roll it out, freeze it then in the pan straight out the freezer. This takes a huge hassle out the way for having sabji during the week.
Yeah, I'm down in SD but having failed to update my profile. 😀 It's also only for the summer, but, yeah it's been quite a shake up in lifestyle.
Bill, I know it too well, plus how to hide failures. 😀
Ten years of school dinners has given me the ability to cope with almost anything that goes wrong in the kitchen. It would not however give me the ability to cope with a gastro crawl in asia with Scott!
Never had a single school dinner in my life but I'd be ok with an asian gastro crawl.
Tried hiding my screw ups but my family seems to prefer my screw ups to the dishes that come out fine.
Yay, black pudding or Blutwurst although we tend to use pig's blood!
Essential part of any cooked full breakfast.
My school days in Germany started at 8am and finished at around 1pm so no need for school lunch or dinner.
Essential part of any cooked full breakfast.
My school days in Germany started at 8am and finished at around 1pm so no need for school lunch or dinner.
harvested what my grand-daughter calls "snap-pea-pods" -- finally figured a way to keep the chipmunks out of the garden. it seems awfully late but we had a wet and cold spring.
Not much to tell other than I was kennelled. If you have seen the film 'if' then kind of like that, but without the guy in the suit of armour. You ate what you were served or went hungry once your pot noodle stash was used up. And as a boy you are always hungry!
Scott hunts out the most extreme local delicacies. I draw the line at things that smell worse than a nappy or are still moving (mind you in France you get the fruits de mer served on a model galleon where the snails are climbing the rigging!).
Last time I had plateau de fruits de mer I got the impression much of it was farmed these days.