Thread: Weird food I wouldn't eat

On 28/01/2012 4:48 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:
> My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. To me, a pig
> ear seems to be mostly cartilage. What's the attraction?

He probably hated to see it go to waste, and you know you can't make a
silk purse out of it.

On Jan 28, 5:00*pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 28/01/2012 4:48 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:
>
> > My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. *To me, a pig
> > ear seems to be mostly cartilage. *What's the attraction?
>
> He probably hated to see it go to waste, and you know you can't make a
> silk purse out of it.

People from the old country didn't waste anything from the pig.
Kidney fat was stuffed with sausage. Nothing wrong with it. Lungs
were used to make stock. Not allowed here.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:13:43 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love wrote:

> On Jan 28, 5:00*pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> On 28/01/2012 4:48 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:
>>
>>> My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. *To me, a pig
>>> ear seems to be mostly cartilage. *What's the attraction?
>>
>> He probably hated to see it go to waste, and you know you can't make a
>> silk purse out of it.
>
> People from the old country didn't waste anything from the pig.
> Kidney fat was stuffed with sausage. Nothing wrong with it. Lungs
> were used to make stock. Not allowed here.

Here's a site that's right up your alley, with a recipe for pig ear
sliders.


http://cookingforassholes.blogspot.c...-why-nose.html

-sw

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:31:22 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

> Here's a site that's right up your alley, with a recipe for pig ear
> sliders.
>
> http://cookingforassholes.blogspot.c...-why-nose.html

That site is actually mildly interesting, foodwise. And that's a
pretty high praise from me considering I don't do blogs. But then
again I'm an asshole, so maybe that's what's appealing to me.

http://cookingforassholes.blogspot.com/

-sw

A Moose in Love wrote:
> On Jan 28, 5:00 pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> On 28/01/2012 4:48 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:
>>
>>> My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. To me, a pig
>>> ear seems to be mostly cartilage. What's the attraction?
>>
>> He probably hated to see it go to waste, and you know you can't make
>> a silk purse out of it.
>
> People from the old country didn't waste anything from the pig.
> Kidney fat was stuffed with sausage. Nothing wrong with it. Lungs
> were used to make stock. Not allowed here.

Anthony Bourdain has done some great shows about cooking with the whole pig.

One was called 'Cajun Country', I think. Another one was from England.

Here is a blog post about some of his other shows about pork:
http://blog.travelchannel.com/anthon...archy-of-pork/


W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)

A Moose in Love wrote:
>
> My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. To me, a pig
> ear seems to be mostly cartilage. What's the attraction?

Flavor. That's a part that tastes great. Think of why boneless
skinness chicken breast is so close to flavorless. Cook with skin
and/or bones and the flavor is tremendously increased. The bones
include cartilage.

I'll counter - What's the objection? I bet it has zero to do with
issues of flavor and nutrition.

On Jan 30, 11:39*am, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A Moose in Love wrote:
>
>
>
> > My Grandad (RIP) used to like eating pig ear in aspic. *To me, a pig
> > ear seems to be mostly cartilage. *What's the attraction?
>
> Flavor. *That's a part that tastes great. *Think of why boneless
> skinness chicken breast is so close to flavorless.
....

Not the way I make it!! Either curried or in a pan with BBQ sauce, my
skinless boneless chicken breasts have flavor!!

John Kuthe...

On Jan 30, 9:42*am, John Kuthe <johnkuth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 11:39*am, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Flavor. *That's a part that tastes great. *Think of why boneless
> > skinness chicken breast is so close to flavorless.
> ....
> Not the way I make it!! Either curried or in a pan with BBQ sauce, my
> skinless boneless chicken breasts have flavor!!
>
You're both right. Boneless skinless chicken breast has almost no
flavor. You add flavor with curry or bbq sauce. In my kitchen, b-s
breast gets cut up for stir fries or gets poached and sliced for
sandwiches. -aem

"John Kuthe" schrieb :


> On Jan 30, 11:39 am, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Flavor. That's a part that tastes great. Think of why boneless
> > skinness chicken breast is so close to flavorless.


> Not the way I make it!! Either curried or in a pan with BBQ sauce, my
> skinless boneless chicken breasts have flavor!!

Yes. Curry flavour or BBQ sauce flavour. Why don't you just leave out
the chicken ? The result will be the same.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

aem wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Jan 30, 9:42*am, John Kuthe <johnkuth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 11:39*am, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Flavor. *That's a part that tastes great. *Think of why boneless
> > > skinness chicken breast is so close to flavorless.
> > ....
> > Not the way I make it!! Either curried or in a pan with BBQ sauce,
> > my skinless boneless chicken breasts have flavor!!
> >
> You're both right. Boneless skinless chicken breast has almost no
> flavor. You add flavor with curry or bbq sauce. In my kitchen, b-s
> breast gets cut up for stir fries or gets poached and sliced for
> sandwiches. -aem

LOl, in my kitchen, we call that pet food. They give me nasty looks but
eat it. I sometimes make chicken salad of some of that white meat
stuff. I consider it a by-product of cooking a chicken.


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Michael wrote:

>> Not the way I make it!! Either curried or in a pan with BBQ sauce, my
>> skinless boneless chicken breasts have flavor!!
>
> Yes. Curry flavour or BBQ sauce flavour. Why don't you just leave out
> the chicken ? The result will be the same.

By itself, the sauce has too strong a flavor.

Bob