Leftovers
Steve Freides
from Stop 'N' Shop.
Week-old "fresh" mozarella from Fairways.
Bacon from yesterday - I was virtuous :) and I know everyone in my house
likes bacon with various things, so I cooked up a couple of 12 oz.
packages at about 9 PM Thursday. From Trader Joe's, uncured, not the
cheapest stuff in the world at $5 for a package but really tasty.
Dinner last night: my wife took the puff pastry, put some fresh
mozarella and some bacon in the center, over the four corners, and baked
it. We had a house full of people and _everyone_ thought it was
delicious.
I remember Emeril on TV saying "pork fat rules" - he's right about that.
Tom Anderson
He was also spot on when he said "BAM!", which is lucky, because he said
that a lot.
Funnily enough, lunch for me today was leftover bacon, leftover cheddar
(both leftover in the sense that i bought them to eat, and have not yet
eaten all of them) in croissants. Almost pure fat. Brilliant.
tom
--
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. -- Optimus Prime
Axel of the North!
wrote:
I went to my local farmer's market (mostly meat vendors on scheduled
Saturdays) and picked up 10 pounds of pork fat, unground. I'm going to
cut it up myself, with my sharp, wholesome steels. Twenty-five fucking
cents a pound. All I have to do is cut it up and render out all the
precious fat. I wish I knew a dog owner with a VERY good dog who
deserves awesome pork rinds. (I eat the beef rinds, they don't even
make me nauseous). That's an incredibly energy-dense food at an
unconscionably low price. My poor meat vendors.. I talked to plenty of
them about diet and nutrition and human history and have told them
plenty about what I learned about my own body (I love animal flesh,
btw) so I'm not deceptive or "getting away" with anything. I'm slim 'n
trim and muscular and strong and feeling good. Totally thankful to
them. Thanksgiving, as a holiday, I can believe in that. Unfortunately
I don't agree in blatant gluttony on a day reserved for giving thanks
for what we have. I think gluttony is the antithesis of the spirit of
thanksgiving. I don't like that holiday, as it is traditionally
observed. Oh, I also got 3 large chunks of grass-fed beef suet. My
awesome farmers.
Pork fat rules. I'm sure it's like clarified butter (ghee). Without
the proteins or sugars of the dairy my body has no problem with
butterfat. Pork lard is not the same as pork flesh, but it tastes
wonderful. I can actually tolerate a few strips of bacon, which I love
the taste of (naturally). FIrst thing I'm gonna do is cook this pork
fat into some adzuki beans. They were soaked and aired for over a day
before cooking, and cooked in some animal and vegetable stock for
extra tastiness. I love elevating a modest, poor man's food into the
realm of resolve-testing deliciousness. Absolutely fuckin' delicious.
Price does not equal value.