Posted on 05/13/2018 5:02:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76
For Mother's Day, I decided that I would grill some leg of lamb steaks. So good. I coated them in olive oil, kosher salt, lots of pepper, some rosemary and chopped garlic and let them sit in that for a while to come up to room temperature. You don't need to cook lamb that long. I like to sear 5 minutes on each side under high heat and then put on indirect heat until the internal temperature comes up to about 160 degrees.
Anyway, I just want you to know that as soon as I pulled the lamb steaks out of the packaging, I noticed the leg bone going through the steaks. My mouth immediately started watering and all I could think about was the bone marrow inside of that bone. I wanted that marrow so badly.
As the steaks got seared and nicely crisped and browned on each side and all sizzly, I could see that bone marrow slightly bubbling and I just wanted then and there to rip that bone right out of the steak and start sucking out that bone marrow like an animal.
But it was Mother's Day and I wanted to present the steaks properly to my family so I held back and waited for the steaks to get completely done. It was torture. Even a couple of beers didn't seem to help.
Now bone marrow is said to be incredibly nutritious. One of the superfoods. 97% fat, packed with vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, lipids and of a gelatinous consistency. Bone marrow is said to be essential for good health, strengthening the immune systems, improving cardiovascular and renal system, stimulating hormonal secretion and sexual function, improving memory, sleep, posting ability, emotional mood, perception, comprehension and the overall instinctively-conscious reflection of the person.
Basically bone marrow is the bomb, nutritionally speaking.
So I get my steaks looking like those below and all I'm thinking about is getting at that bone marrow. By now, that bone marrow is so soft and pliable that you can just take your finger and push it on out of there, ejecting a buttery, jelly-like slab of nutritional goodness. I just want to rip that bone out of the steak, put it up to my mouth, suck the mouth-watering mass of bone marrow down and then slide my tongue around it.
But it's Mother's Day. And I don't want to be a wild animal at the table. So I carefully go about my steak with a fork and knife, taking spoonfuls of the side dishes and slowly but surely working around the bone. Finally, the penultimate moment arrives and I'm left with just the bone on my plate with the marvelously slimy slab of marrow inside. I look around me and everybody else is still barely halfway through their steaks. So I nonchalantly push the marrow up through the bone and onto my plate and I pick it up with a fork, like a civilized person and put it to my mouth. But I know there are bits of marrow still inside the bone and I don't want to just put the bone in my mouth and suck on it. So I take a hunk of bread, dip it in olive oil, wad it up a little and push it inside the bone, coating the bread with bits of the marrow that remained and pop it in my mouth.
So there are two steaks left and my wife, mother in law show no intention whatsoever of eating their marrow. They are just cutting and eating the steak around the bone. I ask my mother-in-law if she is going to eat the bone marrow and I get the what-kind-of-man-did-my-daughter-marry look. My wife, she already knows and just sadly shakes her head. When they are finished, being it's Mother's Day and all, I offer to take their plates into the kitchen. Jackpot! Two more virgin lamb leg bones and this time, away from prying eyes, I can suck out the bone marrow out of them like the caveman that I am.
So, I'm just wondering if I'm the only one out there with the primal urge to suck marrow out of bones. I don't think that I am. I'm thinking that back in Paleolithic times, before food was plentiful, our ancestors would go on the hunt and the first thing they would do upon making a kill would be to suck out the life-sustaining bone marrow out of the bones.
“Bone Marrow: Delicious, Nutritious, and Underappreciated”
Agreed!
Nope. Just you.
When I made spaghetti sauce I would simmer marrow bones in it for a few hours, then take them out, remove the marrow, and blend it in with the sauce. Very sweet and rich and really added to the mellowness of the sauce. I tried not to think about what it is - that’s a bit of a turn off.
It was a fight amongst us siblings and Dad as to who would get the marrow. It was the tastiest part.
And all these years I thought my mom and aunts were crazy. Might have to give this a try at some point
The original cave man feast. That, some barbeque ribs, alligator and Rocky Mountain oysters and you have a meal.
Belly button lint.
No, but I’ve had four Bone Marrow Biopsy’s over the past decade or so. Thanks to Leukemia I’m a giver, what can I say?
Used to do it with chicken drumsticks. As a side note, the larger parrots do it — somehow instinctively they know that inside those hard bones (easy for them to crack) is really good stuff that tastes good and is good for them. I wonder how they ever figured it out.
Dad used to go to a local farm to buy what would today be called ‘country ham’, which is quite different from the mass-marketed, processed hams you find in grocery stores today.
There would be several slices from the center that Mom would fry up for a weekend breakfast with eggs & biscuits. The marrow was always intact in the bone, and I found it to be very tasty!
Do all of those all the time,,, you need to try some goat oysters :) they have a good creamy flavor ,,,;)
Weirdest thread ever?
You haven’t been here near long enough.
I love marrow. Lamb steaks are not safe around me and my wife will not watch me eating the marrow. I have to warn her when I’m going to “sluck” it out of the bones so she can leave.
No. Not while it’s within the bones.
I’ll wait until the marrow becomes tallow, which is made into Jello powders.
When we get a beef butchered I have most of the roasts and steaks left "Bone in" for that very reason. The other bones get roasted, cracked and cooked down into a very rich bone broth.
Marrow. It does a body good.
We fed the baby a few spoonfuls a day and yes, the baby rapidly stopped being sick all the time.
The Al Gore Election Haiku thread in 2000 was odd. And funny.
Yes and I have it all to myself because no one else in my family will touch it.
One of our favorite French restaurants serves the bone in beef with a tiny spoon, to enjoy the marrow with. Delicious.
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