I did not learn from my experience of cooking heart. This Christmas – my sister-in-law had bought
a forth of a cow, and let me take some cuts of beef home for my Christmas
gift. So digging through my freezer I
found beef neck. I was not sure how I could use this cut of
meat… but it looked like I could use it to make stew.
So that week I salted onions, celery and the cuts of meat in
a big pan. The neck cuts were
interesting in that they did not hold as much meat as I thought they
would. The meat was tough, and was hard
to cut off the bone due to a lot of tendons – Hurray for sharp knifes! I ended up with half pound of meat (and the
bone marrow from the bones). I added
lots of vegetables to bulk up the stew… then thickened it with flour.
This turned out much better than the heart. It was a tasty stew (mostly vegetables with a
taste of beef) that tasted much better with some soy biscuits (Sour milk biscuits
made with a cup of soy flour in them). I do think that time wise and money wise – it
is better to buy a pound of ground beef and stretch the meat with
vegetables. I have discovered that my
favorite recipe is the vegetable burgers (meat loaf made with potatoes,
carrots, onions and other vegetables instead of bread) and I cook them
individually in muffin tins so they are ready for lunches.
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