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tanarillToday, the Panda and I went to the Beefatorium. This is a wonderful land of dead animals and dead animal parts, in any and every possible configuration. You can get packages of sweetbread there, and brain, and whole spleens. You can also get osso bucco, entire geese, lamb in most varieties, turkeys and any part thereof . . . Every time we go, they have added a meat to their repetoire; this time, it was goat. We decided to try it in the future, but not for the first time on Passover. The list of what we did buy is as follows:
Osso bucco - 4
Lamb shanks - 4
Lamb chops - 4
Brisketzilla - 1, cut in half so that it can be physically put in the oven
Petit steak - 1, we had one in the freezer that must be eaten before the holiday, but just one is not a meal for us; it will be dinner tomorrow
Frier chickens - 4, quartered
Pullet (soup) chickens - 4, with the breasts put in a separate package than the rest of the bird
Turkey necks - 2, one for soup and one for stuffing
Cold cuts - 1.5 lbs, which were duly consumed as dinner tonight
Giant salami - 1
Chopped liver - 1 small container, bought because liver is my iron pill
. . . I should mention that the Kosher butcher is an hour away, and so we only get out there once every few months. When the family was planning to move out here, and they were debating moving the extra freezer, I said in to uncertain terms that we will need the ability to freeze and store half a cow at once. I was so very, very right.
However, the brisketzilla, one lamb shank, two of the pullets, the turkey necks, and an already-owned whole frozen turkeybird, is going to be meat for the two Passover Seders (say-der). Actually we do not eat the lamb shank, which I know is a wicked waste of food, but it is our stand-in for the pascal lamb, which we do not eat due to the utter lack of Temple in Jerusalem. So then we will only have a soup tureen, pounds of meat, and a whole brined turkeybird.
Have I mentioned our complete and utter mocking of vegetarianism lately? :D
Osso bucco - 4
Lamb shanks - 4
Lamb chops - 4
Brisketzilla - 1, cut in half so that it can be physically put in the oven
Petit steak - 1, we had one in the freezer that must be eaten before the holiday, but just one is not a meal for us; it will be dinner tomorrow
Frier chickens - 4, quartered
Pullet (soup) chickens - 4, with the breasts put in a separate package than the rest of the bird
Turkey necks - 2, one for soup and one for stuffing
Cold cuts - 1.5 lbs, which were duly consumed as dinner tonight
Giant salami - 1
Chopped liver - 1 small container, bought because liver is my iron pill
. . . I should mention that the Kosher butcher is an hour away, and so we only get out there once every few months. When the family was planning to move out here, and they were debating moving the extra freezer, I said in to uncertain terms that we will need the ability to freeze and store half a cow at once. I was so very, very right.
However, the brisketzilla, one lamb shank, two of the pullets, the turkey necks, and an already-owned whole frozen turkeybird, is going to be meat for the two Passover Seders (say-der). Actually we do not eat the lamb shank, which I know is a wicked waste of food, but it is our stand-in for the pascal lamb, which we do not eat due to the utter lack of Temple in Jerusalem. So then we will only have a soup tureen, pounds of meat, and a whole brined turkeybird.
Have I mentioned our complete and utter mocking of vegetarianism lately? :D
