Posted on 10/24/2017 1:24:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
Every story about us engineering soldiers to fight without food and water or run faster and bleed less speaks to the end getting closer. All we need is fake food manufactured in a petri dishes to change our DNA. The unforeseen mutations are the ones that always get ya. They already grow pigs with human hearts. Does that mean we are cannibals now?
Hospitals and other institutions love lean pork. Dietitians make the menus and they love high protein with low fat. Pork tenderloin in a fruity glaze kind of thing. People who aren’t stuck in the hospital or in an institution don’t like it so much.
I see loin chops at Costco without a speck of intramuscular fat. People who eat this crap won’t live longer, it will just seem longer.
My current project is learning to roast pork shank or pork knuckle. It’s got everything you could want. Skin, fat, connective tissue, meat and bone. The Germans get the outside crackling golden brown and hard and crunchy. The plentiful fat bastes the meat as it slow roasts. Pork for life!
Pass. Low fat is a scam. Low fat is UNHEALTHY. Sugar is the ultimate enemy of eating healthy.
High fat diets REDUCE cholesterol. High fat diets NORMALIZE blood pressure.
Bring back the fat!
If only my wife would buy that....................
I hadn’t tried pork shank but I often cook lamb shank in a crock pot. I’ll have to look for it locally.
Some of the best pork I’ve had recently was Alentejana pork in Portugal. It has great marbling and a very rich flavor. Acorns make up a big chunk of their diet.
I’m making cheesy cream of potato soup right now. I am going to go grab some bacon to fry so I can sprinkle it on top later.
Imagine:
Guilt Free Bacon!.................
Tha’s my saying... Fat is where the flavors at!
long pork?
Sounds nice.
Iberico pork gets its flavor from acorns. I get a cured chorizo made from this stuff from a local Spanish deli. It tastes like salami from heaven.
Pork shank is hard to come by in the US. I just paid $10 a pound from a high-end meat boutique. I can probably get a better deal at some local mercado.
I think pork shank mostly ends up in Jimmy Dean.
A strip of cooked bacon is only 44 calories. Just eat 2 and not 17.
ala Donner!................
They was thin................
New low fat pigs? It’s JFK all over again.
I don’t feel any guilt while eating it ;)
Now, with MORE melamine!
(Let's see if the mutation makes the pigs better reservoirs for fatal high path avian flu virions.)
That's why you drizzle garlic butter over filet mignon or cook it wrapped in bacon, while rib eyes require no such treatment: fat.
drooling on my keyboard now...
Always on sale and very little waste.
They can be tasty but it's best to cook them hot and fast (roasted, rotisseried, or grilled over charcoal,) and remove them from the heat at 140F, reaching 145 with the carry-over. Any hotter and they dry out because they are so lean.
We cut them into tender, juicy 1/2 inch slices and drizzle them with gravy. They're also good in sandwiches.
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