Re: Paleo stylee

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RADIANT


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 7:47 PM
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And how did it taste?


Posted by: ydnew | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 7:47 PM
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I don't know yet but it smells amazing.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 7:52 PM
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Definitely grosser looking than when I cook fish heads.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:02 PM
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I can still see his cute little ears hiding his eye, as if he knew what the future held.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:09 PM
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Do you have to special order the head or is there a shelf of them?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:24 PM
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are you going to make headcheese?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:27 PM
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not that you shouldn't just chow down on some pig face.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:28 PM
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What, or who, is that?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:29 PM
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It's not halal, whatever it is.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:40 PM
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I'm finding the picture kind of anatomically mystifying. I mean, generally, pig head, sure. But in detail I'm lost.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:46 PM
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Neb has taken his first head. Today he is a man of the Unfogged and may speak around the council fire.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:47 PM
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I think the main thing is the skin is sliding off, so you have a chin that's lolling off away from the jawbone and a soft palette (I think) that's making a break for the left ear.

neb, I demand to know your intentions towards this pig's head.


Posted by: Yawnoc | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:51 PM
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That's a really nice stock pot you have there, neb.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 8:58 PM
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You should mount the skull and hang it on your wall.


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 9:01 PM
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6: I got it from the a stand at the Berkeley farmer's market. I asked for a head last week; this week they had it for me (frozen, not fresh, and because that disappointed me, they sold it to me for $10 rather than $15). I am making head cheese.

I'm afraid I've already tossed the skull (which I also broke in half, detaching the jawbone from the upper part), though I guess I could recover it.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 9:12 PM
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There is a LOT of fat on a pig's head, lemme tell you.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 9:17 PM
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Your terrine presentation could use some work.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 9:56 PM
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Is head fat equally as delicious as belly fat?


Posted by: Yawnoc | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 9:59 PM
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Well, I'm not curing it or anything, but ... probably. (I rendered a bunch directly, but also skimmed an insane amount from the stockpot. The latter is already seasoned, obviously, so perhaps I shouldn't have mixed the two, but eh. It'll be fine as long as it's only used for savory applications which is all I would really use it for anyway.)

If I do this again I'd be tempted to take a big ol' rectangle from the forehead or neck or something and make lardo.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 10:22 PM
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Nice. I mean "stylee" is kinda grating, but you fucking took fat from a head and are gonna make homemade head cheese so much love.


Posted by: Tim "Ripper" Owens | Link to this comment | 01-25-15 10:56 PM
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Aha, on my phone, the photo is rotated so that it's harder to make out the features. Now that I know it's Maurice, I'm heartbroken.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 6:58 AM
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It was more cheerful when you thought it might have been a raccoon or something?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 7:07 AM
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When it was just some random pig.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 7:19 AM
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Every pig is precious to his or her mother, unless the farrowing crate drives the sow nuts and she crushes them.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 7:23 AM
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Somehow I always had the impression that brains were part of head cheese. Apparently not. Good to know you're not courting prion diseases, neb.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 7:44 AM
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Another season, another reason, for making encephalopathy.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:11 AM
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Isn't "stylee" descended from notions of Chinese Pidgin English?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:30 AM
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Jamaica, to the best of my knowledge.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:55 AM
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That knowledge comes from urban dictionary, though, so who knows.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:56 AM
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Oh, what do you know, it's in the OED. First citation "Rap--Sugarhill stylee". Their note is "A Jamaican origin is sometimes suggested, but there is apparently no documentary evidence earlier than quot. 1982."

I associate arbitrary additions of -ee with Chinese Pidgin English and therefore today usually in racist comments, but maybe it appears elsewhere.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 12:42 PM
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Definitely grosser looking than when I cook fish heads.

Oh, great. We can't even answer. (We can't talk.)


Posted by: Fish Heads | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 2:26 PM
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I am an enthusiastic carnivore and this makes me queasy.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 2:27 PM
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Regarding the OP, allow me to be the first to say, that looks fucking disgusting.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:18 PM
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Yes. But it smelled good.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:19 PM
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Snort.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:28 PM
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See? Even Stanley wants a whiff of it.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:45 PM
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But it smelled good.

Until it was ruthlessly slaughtered.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:47 PM
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34: Maybe so, but what are looks to a pig?


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 8:48 PM
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Marin Sun Farms sells them fresh, not frozen, neb! Homemade head cheese is lovely, enjoy!


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 9:20 PM
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So does True Grass, on occasion, anyway. It seems to have worked out anyway though!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 01-26-15 10:16 PM
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