Porterhouse is my favorite cut of meat, minimum 1” thick, grilled or hot seared rare. My husbands’ favorite cut is rib eye, med. rare. I love a slow cooked leg of lamb any day, as do my boys, I can eat me some well seasoned slow cooked mutton stew, wow, can eat that all day. I love bacon, but my favorite pork would have to be nicely marinated whole grilled tenderloin, wild boar is incredibly delicious, so too is moose, venison, elk, etc . I love the birds also, but duck is by far my favorite feathered delight...... especially with a crispy skin. I love fish, but shark would have to be my favorite swimmer, and tuna, and flounder, shrimp, oysters, clams, squid, oh, I just love anything from the sea (except urchin). Fresh water catfish is amazing and frog legs really do taste like chicken, just moister. Alligator ribs and tail are tasty, turtle soup is o.k. but I can’t get past the critter issue to really enjoy its’ flavor, snake isn’t too bad, tastes like frog to me….. Buffalo is fabulous, Ox tail divine, Squirrel brains aren't meat, per say, but with scrambled eggs they taste fine....... Mountain oysters are pretty tasty too, sliced and fried crispy.
When you grow up poor, you eat what’s put on the table, or you starve. Oh, I almost forgot rabbit, super yummy, but I would never eat something that was named, unless I was starving my children to feed it, in that case, sorry but supper wins. Reality is, outside of supermarkets, vegetables take time to grow, good soil and proper sunlight, fertilizers, water, etc….. and to get the nutrients needed to thrive, costs more than some slightly greening hamburger meat, and a handful of wild kumquats and Chinese plums. I grew up on reduced meats; life is more than cherries, arugula and tofu….. don’t get me wrong…. I love the fruits and veggies, but the meats feed me.
Speaking of marrow, I'm sure I will be looked down upon for this, but my sons teethed on steak bones..... I love the flavor of marrow and so do they. I think humans are just creating another way for some to look down on others by the U.N. making such a sweeping proclamation about personal dietary choices, shame. C'est la vie, pass me the A-1 and the Ring of Fire and the salt, lots and lots of salt......
And don't go all environmental on me, I was picking up others trash off the beaches long before the teary eyed Indian told me too (love that commercial), and planting trees for no other reason than it was the right thing to do for the animals. When you grow up off the land you respect it, you respect the animals that feed you and you respect the homes that feed them. I think the U.N. should ban cities and force everybody to live rural and ride bicycles and no more tractors for farming either (silliness). Maybe I should have posted this in the U.N. thread, I feel like I have to justify eating meat now so no one thinks I just don't care about the environment or my health, what a joke.