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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. Random guest posting.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. Random guest posting.
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Jovial Monk
Re: meat
I post about food a lot. Nothing more political than food!
People get all romantic about the Renaissance. Bah, think about this:
It wasn't until the invention of the horse collar that it was possible for everybody to eat all the food needed and didn't need thousands of slaves!
The horse collar allowed the plough horses to pull the plough, and carthorses the cart without half choking themselves half to death! With enough food more people could be freed from actually making food and instead could read and think and so on. Without the horse collar there would have been no Renaissance!
As keen amateur brewer I know how tax regimes influenced the evolution of beer styles.
I am sympathetic to the aims of the slow food movement without being a member etc. Horrified by the crap slopped out by fast food chains, supermarkets, the GMO SHIT and eating no longer being a social thing.
People get all romantic about the Renaissance. Bah, think about this:
It wasn't until the invention of the horse collar that it was possible for everybody to eat all the food needed and didn't need thousands of slaves!
The horse collar allowed the plough horses to pull the plough, and carthorses the cart without half choking themselves half to death! With enough food more people could be freed from actually making food and instead could read and think and so on. Without the horse collar there would have been no Renaissance!
As keen amateur brewer I know how tax regimes influenced the evolution of beer styles.
I am sympathetic to the aims of the slow food movement without being a member etc. Horrified by the crap slopped out by fast food chains, supermarkets, the GMO SHIT and eating no longer being a social thing.
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Jovial Monk
Re: meat
copied from my post at sheepy's forum:
Paean to food
I once read where someone (a sports coach IIRC) said "Think of food as petrol for the body." Revolting! Food is nourishment for the body, for the soul, for the family & community!
It is intensely social in nature (unless you buy your food from supermarkets {shudder} ) as it starts with you going out and buying the ingredients for the meal (or, a step back, buying what is needed to grow your own food) and that involves talking to the vendors about what is good, local & seasonal, looking at a new veg and how to cook it etc. We talk to the fruit & veg man, the butcher, the baker, the dairyman, fish, patissery etc
Even if just cooking for yourself cooking can be an artform, working out what to pair with what, how to present attractively and creatively, and ensuring the whole is delicious and nutritious!
Lots of little touches: when boiling some tomato sauce for pasta (or, over lamb chops in which case add plenty rosemary to the sauce) finely slice a red chili and throw in, seeds and all. Provides a beautiful clean little zing to the meal (and a ton of antioxidants as well!) Visit a Farmers Market and investigate the range of olive oils & vinegars available! I have one vinegar, from Chardonnay grapes where the vinegerisation was halted very early: you can still taste the bleeding grapes! Ideal for use with delicate dishes like fish. OTOH I have a red wine vinegar that is tart and acid like Sylvester yet when used to deglaze a baking dish that acidity goes (unlike with Sylvester ) or use it for the very vinegary (no oil) salads to go with sturdy dishes like pizza.
The real joy of food is of course when preparing and eating a meal with friends and family! You really have scope then! Horses doovers, entree, fish main pudding then fruit & nuts drunk with a nice sauternes or chilled Spatlese! Food, drink, conversation, kids running around creating a ruckus, perfect! There are desert beers as well, nice big dark slightly spiced and a tad syrupy and sweet that go fine with the desert. I am big on deserts (and big because of deserts ) and man can they be wonderful!
I think I am a dab hands at salads and I do love making a big salad! A salad should have a 'point' i.e. not just random raw shit chucked into a big bowl and mayo slopped on top! What sort of point? Well, even a 'ham and tomato' salad has a point, the ham should be visible and dominate the salad, aided by ripe seasonal tomatoes, salty and acidy.
One salad I made for the family christmass dinner went down a treat! A good mix of soft and crunchy, dry and juicy, green and red and yellow and white etc then a fair bit of bits of blue vein cheese and chili salami that really transformed that salad. Everyone loved it, except for my evil older sister who has decided she is vegetarian and 'lactose intolerant' (which she isn't) and that made my day! Hey, food can be revenge too!
Year before last I made a salad with some almost burned bacon in it: gave it a delightful salty crunch.
Ever had to eat 'potato salad'? You know what I mean, blocks of white stuff bound together with a white sauce that looks like cum?
No, a potato salad can be incredibly good! Visit your market (or garden) and look for small, yellow-fleshed tasty spuds (Dutch Creme is very good here) and steam in their jackets until almost cooked. Drain, put in a bowl. Fry till really crisp sugar-free ham or bacon (good butchers or continental shops or a good smallgoods stall at a market) cut into biggish strips. Add to the spuds and bung the lot into a fridge. Mint the fucking spuds if you want, use your imagination! Be artistic! Creative! I like sprinkling the spuds with hot paprika powder if you must know.
Make a lettucy salad, with maybe some sliced raw carrot or parboiled julienned cauli or broccoli or French beans, some sliced radishes etc. Assemble salad, add potato-ham mix and our vinaigrette over. Now you got a salad! Almost-soft delicious potato, crunchy crunchy veges, lovely mix of colors, salty ham or bacon, zing of paprika. No need to add salt but coarse ground black pepper is excellent.
Vinaigrette. Absolute best EVOO and vinegar. Two thirds EVOO, one third vinegar, stir together, pour all over salad incl spuds
There, just a salad can be a real highlight! That is what food can be!
Petrol for the body my rosy round arse!
Paean to food
I once read where someone (a sports coach IIRC) said "Think of food as petrol for the body." Revolting! Food is nourishment for the body, for the soul, for the family & community!
It is intensely social in nature (unless you buy your food from supermarkets {shudder} ) as it starts with you going out and buying the ingredients for the meal (or, a step back, buying what is needed to grow your own food) and that involves talking to the vendors about what is good, local & seasonal, looking at a new veg and how to cook it etc. We talk to the fruit & veg man, the butcher, the baker, the dairyman, fish, patissery etc
Even if just cooking for yourself cooking can be an artform, working out what to pair with what, how to present attractively and creatively, and ensuring the whole is delicious and nutritious!
Lots of little touches: when boiling some tomato sauce for pasta (or, over lamb chops in which case add plenty rosemary to the sauce) finely slice a red chili and throw in, seeds and all. Provides a beautiful clean little zing to the meal (and a ton of antioxidants as well!) Visit a Farmers Market and investigate the range of olive oils & vinegars available! I have one vinegar, from Chardonnay grapes where the vinegerisation was halted very early: you can still taste the bleeding grapes! Ideal for use with delicate dishes like fish. OTOH I have a red wine vinegar that is tart and acid like Sylvester yet when used to deglaze a baking dish that acidity goes (unlike with Sylvester ) or use it for the very vinegary (no oil) salads to go with sturdy dishes like pizza.
The real joy of food is of course when preparing and eating a meal with friends and family! You really have scope then! Horses doovers, entree, fish main pudding then fruit & nuts drunk with a nice sauternes or chilled Spatlese! Food, drink, conversation, kids running around creating a ruckus, perfect! There are desert beers as well, nice big dark slightly spiced and a tad syrupy and sweet that go fine with the desert. I am big on deserts (and big because of deserts ) and man can they be wonderful!
I think I am a dab hands at salads and I do love making a big salad! A salad should have a 'point' i.e. not just random raw shit chucked into a big bowl and mayo slopped on top! What sort of point? Well, even a 'ham and tomato' salad has a point, the ham should be visible and dominate the salad, aided by ripe seasonal tomatoes, salty and acidy.
One salad I made for the family christmass dinner went down a treat! A good mix of soft and crunchy, dry and juicy, green and red and yellow and white etc then a fair bit of bits of blue vein cheese and chili salami that really transformed that salad. Everyone loved it, except for my evil older sister who has decided she is vegetarian and 'lactose intolerant' (which she isn't) and that made my day! Hey, food can be revenge too!
Year before last I made a salad with some almost burned bacon in it: gave it a delightful salty crunch.
Ever had to eat 'potato salad'? You know what I mean, blocks of white stuff bound together with a white sauce that looks like cum?
No, a potato salad can be incredibly good! Visit your market (or garden) and look for small, yellow-fleshed tasty spuds (Dutch Creme is very good here) and steam in their jackets until almost cooked. Drain, put in a bowl. Fry till really crisp sugar-free ham or bacon (good butchers or continental shops or a good smallgoods stall at a market) cut into biggish strips. Add to the spuds and bung the lot into a fridge. Mint the fucking spuds if you want, use your imagination! Be artistic! Creative! I like sprinkling the spuds with hot paprika powder if you must know.
Make a lettucy salad, with maybe some sliced raw carrot or parboiled julienned cauli or broccoli or French beans, some sliced radishes etc. Assemble salad, add potato-ham mix and our vinaigrette over. Now you got a salad! Almost-soft delicious potato, crunchy crunchy veges, lovely mix of colors, salty ham or bacon, zing of paprika. No need to add salt but coarse ground black pepper is excellent.
Vinaigrette. Absolute best EVOO and vinegar. Two thirds EVOO, one third vinegar, stir together, pour all over salad incl spuds
There, just a salad can be a real highlight! That is what food can be!
Petrol for the body my rosy round arse!
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mellie
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Re: meat
freediver wrote:Muelesing executed badly/cruelly will in itself kill and or cause a lot of pain to sheep..its an outdated and barbaric pratctice.
Right, so we need PETA to tell our farmers not to kill their sheep or stress them out?
Cattle eat fucking GRASS!!! NOT GRAIN!
A lot of the beef sold today is grain fed. Eat roo isntead. They also emit less greenhouse gasses.
The last fish I caught:
Freediver, eating roo meat is unhealthy due to the particular life-cycle of the type of intestinal parasites it harbours which re-enter the bloodstream after hatching in the gut, thus are passed onto the unwitting consumer, even when the meat is visually worm-free.
http://nokangaroomeat.org/#Kangaroo_meat_is_unhealthy
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mellie
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Re: meat
Read this Freediver and tell me if you still fancy a roo steak!
http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/new ... _line.aspx
http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/new ... _line.aspx
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