Food & Drink & Music & Girls... Not necessarily in that order.
Roast Bone Marrow! Excuse the presentation, I was only feeding myself and was also cooking a back-up dinner at the time.
Firstly it smelt awful, I feel that was probably more due to me buying it late in the evening and not eating it for another day after, I should have also scrubbed off some more of that flesh from the outside as that didn’t smell great pre-cooking. Anyone who has ever worked in a butchery or restaurant that cuts its own meat will know the smell only too well, it’s not a pleasant one to have in your kitchen.
As far as taste goes bone marrow is an odd one, the toasted “solders” made fantastic sense as the fat that pools up in the bone has a very similar constancy to a soft boiled egg. The chunks of fleshy marrow are soft and slimy, like a mussel and all together you get a soft (here’s that word Tony Bourdain hates, but uses all the time) umptuous fatty mouthful. the toast adds a much needed crunch and the parsley and lemon add acidity to cut through the pools of fat.
£2 for the two and took 15 minutes to prepare and cook, well worth it. Added to the menu at the Casa Del Stacks.
Took me and my broken wrist a 3 mile walk to four different butchers to find one that had a marrow bone and a saw capable of cutting it into pieces. I told the butcher I was going to roast it and he looked at me like I was insane, I’m pretty sure it’s strictly dog food in his eyes. I’ll make it a light lunch tomorrow and post some pictures.
I also enquired about various offal treats whilst I was there, he said I’d have to give him a couple days heads up and he could get me whatever I wanted. I think I just found myself a butcher!
I have to try and source myself some bone marrow tomorrow, which given the poor quality of butchers around my way will be more difficult than it should be. This recipe from BRBeating looks like a winner.
So today at the hospital I was pretty much told to man-up and take the pain, I should point out that I never take painkillers since a brief awesome addiction to Ibuprofen about 12 years back and that I am a goddamn man already.
My fractured wrist is probably just an old injury it seems, an injury that has been aggravated by the bashing it took off the hot asphalt. Personally I think the Doctor thought I was some badass motorcyclist who was just going to ignore his advice and get back on the road. Nothing can be further from the truth, my short motorcycle experience was enough to tell me that I should stick to driving cars recklessly.
The bone is back in place and the fracture is healing, but there is no need for the cast as it wasn’t actually doing anything to aid my recovery. I’m glad to have it off, this photo is all I have to remind me of the week I lost my unbreakable streak.
I’ve become a big fan of “Pain is Good” sauces. For some bizarre reason the main supplier of this goodness in the UK is the clothing store TK Maxx and sadly they’re running out (although at £4.99 a bottle, they’re not running out fast).
I’m particularly fond of the batch #37 BBQ sauce on some grilled chicken thighs and also the 75% Pain sauce, which might not even be made by the same company. It’s tasty and has a hell of a kick.
Get ready for the April 9 season premiere of No Reservations by watching Tony move through every episode ever made: 8 seasons in 80 seconds.
I’ve Watched 6 seasons of Anthony Bourdain No Reservations this week, also a good chunk of the Layover. Now I want to be a chef again. I would say career change, but I don’t have a career.
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