Category Archives: Snout to Tail
NSFW – Pork interlude
I suppose this is only not safe for work if you work for a Jewish institution or have an aversion to knowing where your meat comes from (yes Krista, I am talking about you). In my grand tradition of trayfing … Continue reading
Filed under Meat, Pork interlude, Snout to Tail, Trayfe
Grilled Chicken Liver and Figs
So I’m still slightly obsessed with figs and was attempting to come up with some creative uses for them. As you may have noticed in previous posts that Gordon and I really like chicken liver. (The rest of the Heathens … Continue reading
Filed under Fruit and Vegtables, Holidays, Israeli, Meat, Snout to Tail, Sukkot, Yom Kippur
Chicken Soup Sausage
“It tastes like chicken”- how any times have you heard that? The implication of course is that chicken is so tasteless that any bland tasting meat (rabbit, squab, etc) could be easily substituted for it. Just take a look at … Continue reading
Filed under Ashkenazi, Deli, Jewish, Snout to Tail, Soup
Hillel’s Kosher for Passover BLT Sandwich
Korech, Hillel’s sandwich at the Temple. It is said that when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem Hillel would combine matza, maror and the Pesach lamb into one in order to observe the mitzva of eating the sacrifice on matza … Continue reading
Gribenes
A few weeks ago Amiee and I went to learn how to butcher a lamb. It was fun and we learned a great deal about breaking down whole quadrupeds. But on a more immediate level we got to try some … Continue reading
Filed under Ashkenazi, Deli, Meat, Snout to Tail
The 100th Post! Chopping up a baby lamb
Can we get a syndication deal now? As a slight change of pace and in preparation for Passover, Gordon and I signed up for a lamb butchering class taught by the amazing Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats. In true heathen … Continue reading
Filed under Meat, Passover, Snout to Tail
Matzo Ball Soup (kneidlach)
My dear friend, Krista, recently shared with me that she is battling brain cancer. After going through a wave of emotions and expressing appropriate concern, my first instinct was to make her matzo ball ball soup. While what she is … Continue reading
Kosher Style Liverwurst
Liverwurst, or liver sausage is a Midwestern staple. When I was a kid we would go one town over to Cedarburg (not that i lived in a town per se, Mequon in those days had 62 square miles, 15,000 people … Continue reading
Filed under Deli, Goyish, Meat, Snout to Tail
Chopped Chicken Liver
Liver. In popular American culture this word is usually accompanied by a child making a face of disgust and followed by a sneer of “yuck”. Being the unusual child that I was I have always loved liver although I didn’t … Continue reading
Filed under Ashkenazi, Bread, Deli, Meat, Snout to Tail
