If I am going to eat meat, the piece has to be room temperature before I would even think of cooking it.
Now I have a BITCH about bones. Beef Marrow bones that I buy for soups and seasoning and give to my dogs to keep their teeth healthy.
Price has gone through the roof. Like buying a 2 lb. lobster and getting if lucky, 1/2 lb. of meat from both.
Yesterday Hubby came home with store brand pack of 6 bones at ---$2.29 a pound. For freaking bones. Demoulas brand.
When I removed them from the package and turned them over there were black streaks on the bottom of each bone.
Having spent 22 some odd years around processing plants for fish I knew right off that the marks came from a dirty saw blade. Perhaps the blade was oiled and not cleaned properally, what ever that pack went to the dogs, the second pack was imported from So. America and clean as a whistle.
Two years ago these marrow bones sold for .50 cents a lb. Some stores gave them away in fact.
Sign of the times that all the out of work people are turning to beans, rice, marrow bones a can or two of veggies to fill their belly's. They have embraced the So. East Asian diet and feeding a family of 4 for $20.00 a week.
Watch as the price for rice and dried beans triples in the next 6 months. Vegetable oil will also jump up big time and in the cold climates the cost of frozen vegetables or canned will double.
Eggs, well we know what happend there, an excuse to double the price for them.
