HB “challenge” -stocking up on REAL FOOD!
I’m sorry, I have neglected to write about my own HB challenge days diet. Well,
if you guys don’t mind… I have been so busy with reading all the tons and tons
of mail, from this group and some from a few others.But I must say, the small
talk e-mail posting to the entire O group has gotten excessive… it is tiring,
going through so much mail. Can’t we just recognize when we are writing a
personal post and just be responsible and send it to that one person?
I forgot to mention, in celebration of the 3-week HB “challenge” I have gotten
two leg of lamb roasts; it has some fat on the exterior, a nice large lamb bone
in the middle… succulent red beast flesh. I like that word… succulent. My
body wants to suck all the nutrients from the succulent flesh. Slup!
So I’ve sprinkled the papain tenderizer (salt, sugar, papain) and let thaw at
room temperature for a few hours, a night in the fridge and then tonight I
pounded out an improv rosemary/thyme/garlic/salt rub… coats the surface,
preventing oxidation from exposure to gases (air) and will help flavor the outer
meat. I like my mortar and pestle, nothing compares to pounded and mashed garlic
and dried spices… pounded out the dry herbs, the rosemary, thyme and salt into
a powder, then threw in sliced garlic coins, pounding into a mash, then added
the powder and mashed it together… then put into a little bowl and poured some
olive oil in, mixed it well and voila! Sticky, blended, herbalicious, medicinal,
oily rub for my Leg of Lamb of God Easter Roast! As I said, it prevents
oxidation and flavors the meat, has medicinal value (almost all herbs/spices
do…) and gives me an opportunity to experiment further with foods/medicine
(they are increasingly one and the same for me…).
I’m not really that hip to the regular judeo-christian religions… or even
muslamic… my jewish heritage is a joke… so though I have the most direct
translation of the Old Testament… the Tanach, which has been so edited and
translated into a very different text and religion so as to be a very different
thing, still don’t feel connected to anything. I’m put off. But, I do like some
of Judaism, and I do like the idea of Rabbi Esau (that’s who he REALLY is, BTW).
I won’t argue what I think is complete BS or what is possibly true, or voice my
major complaints against the organized evils that warp and destroy the very
things which he held dearly, or describe my extreme suspicion of the Empire
which took “Christ” and made it into what it was… a contrived tool for…
oops! I’m doing it right now! Sorry. Anyway, I’m going to seriously do my own
version of the… uh… Eucharist communion type deal of symbolically eating the
flesh and blood of Jesus through wafers (hiss!) and wine (eh). Doesn’t this kind
of take digesting the teachings of the dude a little too far? And isn’t this
whole communion thing a wee bit reminiscent of CANNABOLISM? Well… anyway…
Easter is approaching, there are cute little Easter cutouts of various cute
little creatures… cute little bunnies (flash on tearing open skin and eating
raw, bloody hare flesh) cute little chicks (flash) and decorated eggs (flash)…
I say, even I, a religionless Jew (gasp!) should get in on some of the action!
I’m gonna have my own communion, O style! Paleo-communion with Axel. So, I will
eat some REAL flesh, not that grain wafer crap being doled out to the masses.
Every time I tear into that huge chunk of lamb roast I will be sinking my teeth
into Jesus Christ… I like that idea.
I had ordered a leg of lamb, but I guess they only had the lamb roasts… I
love my Whole Farm Co-Op, they’ve recently gotten more media attention, a brief
article in the various local cooperatives’ magazine and an article on the front
page of the variety section of my city’s Sunday paper! I’m really happy for
them… you can check them out here: www.wholefarmcoop.com They are what I
consider to be one of the best kinds of co-ops… not a heath food store co-op,
but a kind of “mail order” co-op that exists mostly as a non-public storage and
co-ordinating entity for the farmer’s, those small, independent, family farmers
who have the good, wholesome, natural, grass-fed products our O bodies need so
much! They mostly deliver to various churches throughout my Twin Cities metro
area, and, thanks to a wonderful non-profit organization known as Minnesota Food
Association they can deliver to me, I have no car and live pretty far from the
nearest drop location it seems… So I get these wonderful deals (check out the
price list) on the grass-fed products and I can support my local good farmers
even on my measly income. I hope the good guys win.
I’m wondering: does anyone else on in this group have a similar organization
from which to live from? I think this co-op is a very uncommon one, I know of no
others like it. I feel very lucky to know of it and live in an area which
receives its products.
For the beginning of March I had these things:
1/2 pound lamb tongues (bah h h h)
8 lamb kidneys
4 packages beef kidneys
one package beef boiling ribs from that 10-year-old momma cow
one venison (deer) heart
2 pounds ground beef
one minute steak
12 oz. sweetbread
1 pound beef liver
about two pounds of beef shanks
Of course, all meats were naturally-raised (if you can call being brought up in
a human-created, human-controlled environment tended to by humans “natural”!)
and grass-fed as much as possible and treated well.
Then, yesterday I finally received from WFC through MFA the following:
2 dozen pullet (small) eggs
6.51 lb leg of lamb roast (in two pieces)
5.57 lb beef round steak
2.13 lb tenderized beef round steak
7.57 lb whole chicken (two)
2.15 lb beef kidney (two) cleaned ‘em out!
0.57 lb lamb kidneys (four) cleaned ‘em out!
2.32 lb beef liver
4.6 lb beef heart
and a pint of raw honey!
My morgue, er, freezer is stocked to nearly full again! Yeah! March HB challenge
to the max! O-Power!!!!
September 21st, 2005 at 6:27 pm
A few months ago someone posted a site or some info on canola oil/ rapeseed.
It was fascinating and scary. Does anyone have that info? I need to show a
friend
Smiles,
JK