meat

As some of you may know on the 3rd Tuesday of every month we go to a cheese club, well this evening was the 1st evening for a charcuterie evening. The deli who do the cheese club also did this evening. The branch manager Sam brought some fine meats and the supermarket equivalent to taste test...

Seeing Yorky's thread about his ham salad sandwich brought back memories of my mom making ground ham salad or bologna salad sandwiches for lunches in the summer. She would get out the table top/clamp on meat grinder and grind up either ham or bologna, followed with a grinding of onions and...

There is a cut of meat that gained popularity here in California called Tri Tip. It's a cut of Sirloin that as the story goes was first done by in the 1950s by a local butcher named Bob Schutz who perfected the tri-tip. If you can "perfect" a tri tip. I found them on sale at a local grocer...

about a week ago I made vege samosas for the freezer. It's our daughters birthday on the 17th this month. When it's your bday, you get to choose from my vast array of meals I cook. She has requested samosas ( both meat and vege as a starter. Leg of lamb smothered in yoghurt Indian spiced, cooked...

There is conflicting data about which meat is the most consumed across the world. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations it is pork, with poultry coming second. Please note, I've included other animal proteins in the poll besides meat - I haven't listed every...

Are you tired of the way that ground meat looks in your local supermarket? you buy bulk ground beef and it looks slightly brown in the middle. Same with burgers! Well, today, ,I've had enough of it!! I'm going to start making my own. I'm so sick of stores trying to pass off ground meat as...

The Cocido Madridleño is an ancient local Winter dish from working class origins to the artistocracy. Versatile and ad hoc, its uncountrable varieties reflect the cold Sierra Highlands of Madrid and the culture from which it developed from the Sephardics (Adafina) and Moroccans Hot Pots, and...

Hey guys! I need your help Recently I started typing a meat lovers cookbook. This will be a cookbook which contains a lot of creative recipes and bizarre stories. Now I already wrote a lot of recipes and stories, but I need some more to finish my book. So if you know or experienced something...

In honor of Spam's 80th Anniversary, I bring you my favorite use for the....er....meat. The picture here shows my treatment of the Spam on a homemade gyro with homemade tzatziki sauce. Ingredients 12 ounces Spam, light 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1⁄4 teaspoon cumin 1⁄4 teaspoon rosemary 1⁄4...

If you want to enjoy a gourmet meal using inexpensive cuts of meat then you’ll want to learn how to “braise”. Braising means browning the meat oil and/or butter then slowly cooking in a covered roasting pan. The meat is covered in a liquid which usually includes some combination of water, broth...

Empanadas: Photograph Copyright: Francesca Guillamet. An Empanada is a stuffed pastry, baked or fried which can be made from wheat flour or corn flower. The name hails from the Spanish Verb: Empanar, denoting to wrap and or coat in bread. Empanadas first appeared in Medieval Portugal and...

This one is strictly for non vegan/vegetarians. What types of red meat do you eat regularly? For the purposes of this poll, regularly is defined as at least once a month and doesn't include processed meats such as bacon or sausages but does include fresh offal, ground/minced meat. If there are...

I was reading an article yesterday that listed a number of things this person didn't like about x, y or z... It got me thinking. When I ate meat, I used to hate eating gammon. I don't know what it was but I really hated it. I liked liver, kidney and even venison, but I hated gammon. So I was...

This bad boy arrived in the post yesterday: Apparently, they are a very popular with serious barbequers, but this was bought to inject festive butter into a turkey crown. Any tips would be welcome - I've never used one before!

Ingredients Olive oil or ghee 2 medium onions, finely sliced 25 mm stick cinnamon 5 whole black peppercorns 1 black cardamom 5 whole cloves 4 tsps pureed garlic 4 tsps pureed ginger 3 tomatoes, peeled and chopped 3 - 4 tsps chili powder (or cayenne pepper) 2 tsps salt (or to taste)...

Hi Everyone! I work as a Researcher for a television production company called Rumpus Media. We are making a documentary and are are looking for a contributor who LOVES sausages and meat in general. If you yourself would like to contribute, or could recommend someone, than please contact me at...

I have to ask this question, and please don't take it to offense, but for charcoal cooking, when do you put your meat on the grill to cook? The reason that I'm asking this is because I've been invited to lots of peoples' cookouts over the years and had some of their BBQ. /and one of my worst...

What is your favorite kind of sandwich meat? I used to buy a whole bunch of the cheap national brand meat because I have to make about 4 lunches everyday, but since the kids are on spring break, I decided to purchase some more expensive deli meat and smoked gouda to go with it. I am hooked as...

Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds ground beef cooked with 1 small chopped onion 1 28 oz. can diced tomatoes (or 2 smaller cans 15 oz) 1 15 oz can tomato sauce (or 2 8 oz cans) 2 envelopes dry spaghetti sauce mix 2 tablespoons of minced garlic from the jar (or mince 2-3 cloves yourself) 8 oz. NO BOIL...

We love savory pies at my house and we make chicken pot pie, beef pot pie often. But one of our favorites is French Meat Pie. We like it hot or cold, plain as it comes out of the oven or with a gravy over it,,, either on onion gravy or a gravy made with cream of mushroom soup. Here is the...