So in these times of trouble it's nice that they think about the little guy sometimes and offer some real savings. Today they had Beef Brisket and Pork Belly both on at $6.59/kg. The irony is that the packages aren't for the little guy. They're the vacuum sealed ones that go to your local meat shop for further butchering. One package of each cost $105.
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Did someone say PORCHETTA!!!!!!!!! It happens from time to time that Lidl, over here sells porchetta when there's a German week.
Make me a 'hamburger' from ground beef. I wrote "'" as I mix the meat with butter, salt and pepper, fry it, add some chopped onion and green pepper and finally sacrifice a shot of fine whiskey and put it all on fire and throw the saucepan out through the window while burning my eyebrows ... 😱 ... Got a bit carried away. Before throwing anything anywhere, I let the flames decrease and then I add cream (40%) and some soy sauce to make a thick gravy.
Make me a 'hamburger' from ground beef. I wrote "'" as I mix the meat with butter, salt and pepper, fry it, add some chopped onion and green pepper and finally sacrifice a shot of fine whiskey and put it all on fire and throw the saucepan out through the window while burning my eyebrows ... 😱 ... Got a bit carried away. Before throwing anything anywhere, I let the flames decrease and then I add cream (40%) and some soy sauce to make a thick gravy.
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Unfortunately it's skinless. And it must have been quite the hog. It's about 8cm thick. I wouldn't be able to roll it very easily. The Mrs. has some asian things she wants to do and Calhoun will be doing bacon. Nice thick sliced bacon.
That is a DIY guy's dining table!
What you have made is often called a "Salisbury steak", which a friend of mine used to call "Rhodesian rib-eye". 🙂
Actually Salisbury was a medical doctor post US civil war. He did an experiment where volunteers were fed nothing but bread and water, suffice it to say they did not do well even by the health standards of the day. He then fed them mostly ground beef organ meats. They all did better, thus his conclusion was meat was the key to good nutrition. The modern thing called a Salisbury Steak is pretty much anything of a ground beef pattie. Different from a hamburger in that hamburger comes from specific cuts of meat.
I have seen commercial versions that used mixed meat and soy. Of course we call it mystery meat as the part of the cow it come from is not specified.
I presume most of you know what Rocky Mountain Oysters are!
I have seen commercial versions that used mixed meat and soy. Of course we call it mystery meat as the part of the cow it come from is not specified.
I presume most of you know what Rocky Mountain Oysters are!
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Uh-huh. Those cuts are called the trimmings that fall on the floor combined with select organ meats, oh and a little bit of beef in there too.
In the great white north they are known as Prairie Oysters.
The four stages of makin' bacon.
Inject
Rub
Seal
Wait
Coarse salt
Brown sugar
Curing salt
Liquid smoke
Chili flake
Inject
Rub
Seal
Wait
Coarse salt
Brown sugar
Curing salt
Liquid smoke
Chili flake
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I always smile when people are horrified to find out cheap franks are made from lips, eyelids, udders etc.
00940, now you can see why that can't be be a Porchetta without slicing it in half. I think it would be a shame to do so, when in 14 days I'll some some rather meaty, large slices of bacon.
I remember a program on the beeb about sausages, they made some using the worst parts 😱 and to the minimum spec. When cooked and tasted they were just like most sausages😉
When they say 100% all beef wieners, they mean it.
While I am happy to live in NA, I am stunned by certain peoples aversion to some food items. If you choose to eat meat then why only flesh?
a friend of mine works for a rendering company that makes ingredients for all kinds of everyday products from 'bi-products'
he drives what amounts to a large garbage truck that picks up the scraps/guts from slaughter houses and outdated meats from retail stores. it's carried around in the hot truck for up to two days depending on his route, then unloaded into a giant bin with a corkscrew grinder into giant vats for cooking it down into glycerins and stearates .....toothpaste, lipstick, moisturizers, vitamins...all kinds of neat stuff!
he drives what amounts to a large garbage truck that picks up the scraps/guts from slaughter houses and outdated meats from retail stores. it's carried around in the hot truck for up to two days depending on his route, then unloaded into a giant bin with a corkscrew grinder into giant vats for cooking it down into glycerins and stearates .....toothpaste, lipstick, moisturizers, vitamins...all kinds of neat stuff!
I would like to ask what you feel, or what that probably caucasian show said were the 'worst parts'? I am interested as I take a different view from my many of my neighbours when it comes to this. Sometimes what us whities call worst is actually closer to best but we are too scared to venture because of our upbringing.
Yep, yep, I see. Now I'm thinking sauerkraut. 😉 But I'm fairly unimaginative when it comes to bacon.
Oh, and a delicacy around here is the veal head (we boil it whole, then debone it, then cut all the meaty parts in cube that cook in a tomato sauce). Did I already posted this ?
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M Bob, I know you're a smart guy and I just want to say, there's nothing wrong with what you describe. Fat is not a good home for the nasty microbes and even if it was, the stuff is so refined and is nothing like what left the rendering facility.
But you already know that. 🙂
But you already know that. 🙂