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.
No, have you been checked for canine or lupine DNA?
Been bitten by any strange looking animals or people lately?
No, have you been checked for canine or lupine DNA?
Been bitten by any strange looking animals or people lately?
You cook lamb to 160°? Sacrilege!
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Same here! They don’t know what they are missing.
Some people like the ears off of barbecued whole hogs. Heard they’re like pig jerky.
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From your link, yardstick....
....There’s another reason – a big reason, actually – why animals of all stripes are drawn toward bone marrow and why you should head down to the butcher for some bones: the taste. A subtle, creamy nuttiness, sometimes a bit sweet, always extremely rich, is not to be casually disregarded. The taste is incredible, either eaten straight up with a touch of sea salt or as part of a rich, hearty stew. Its high quality fuel imbued with vitamins and minerals, but it’s delicious fuel that’d be worth eating even if it were devoid of nutrition.
Luckily for us, though (and counter to what we’re taught about nutrition), what appeals to our taste buds on a basic level usually also nourishes. Marrow may be a “sinful treat” for most, but it deserves to be a kitchen staple for Primal eaters.
It’s delicious! And it is also good for you
When I was a boy my mother made her own beef broth with round bones. When the broth was done, she would remove the bones, spread the marrow onto slices of white bread, and sprinkle salt over the slices. It was so delicious my brother and I nearly fought over them.
Gross. My grandpa used to do that.
Two percent Homo Neanderthalensis influence? Strong instincts which favor a nutritional advantage?
I have some beef bones in the crockpot now, making broth. I got then at the Beef Palace in Huntington Beach this morning.
Dogs love pigs ears. Haven't seen a people eat one though.
Are those lamb steaks gamy? My wife has a hard time with lamb.
You cooked them right except you forgot to add Dijon mustard to the rub.
Yum
When I make beef barley soup I simmer the heck out of marrow bones
Luv bone marrow
Ever have BBQ Duck heads? :)
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