soaking pork/pig stomach soup

[Guest guest]

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> wow!

> but, what were the " possible health reasons " ? does it always need

to be soaked?

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Since millions of people eat it everyday without soaking I would

guess the answer is " no " . In the cultures that routinely eat raw

pork, I wonder if they use an acidic marinade? I want to try raw

pork sometime, but haven't had time to adequately study my local

sources.

Other than the occasional treat of locally produced nitrite-free

bacon and my old habit of using the packages of freshly prepared

delicious pork ears from Chinese grocery stores as a convenience

food, my main experience with pork has been making a delicious soup

with pork stomach once, which I'll be revisiting sometime. I'm

pasting my old post about that below. Don't throw away the stomach!

Or the ears!

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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From: " Anton " <bwp@u...>

Date: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:31 pm

Subject: pig stomach soup

hello all,

just a quick note about a successful improv from the other day. i

bought a pig stomach from a local organic farm (it was frozen

unfortunately), mainly just for fun since i've only eaten it at

chinese shops, never prepared it myself. i wound up cutting up a

few onions, cutting the stomach into bite-size pieces (some nice

chunks of fat here and there on the outside!), and simmering it for

a few hours, adding only some freshly roasted cumin, some ginger,

and a pinch of celtic sea salt. i wanted to try something really

simple not to mask the pig stomach too much. i let it reduce down

to a curry consistency and it was DELICIOUS!! the pig stomach

became very soft and tender. i'm trying to learn more about the

great foods that come from the less popular parts of animals, partly

in the spirit of frugality. i know there have been threads in the

past about the economic side of feeding a large family NT-style, so

maybe this could give someone some ideas, despite coming from a

single guy.

mike parker

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[Guest guest]

oooh, thanks! i'll try this!

hm, we should have a pork party...

At 08:15 PM 1/3/2004, you wrote:

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> > wow!

> > but, what were the " possible health reasons " ? does it always need

>to be soaked?

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>Since millions of people eat it everyday without soaking I would

>guess the answer is " no " . In the cultures that routinely eat raw

>pork, I wonder if they use an acidic marinade? I want to try raw

>pork sometime, but haven't had time to adequately study my local

>sources.

>

>Other than the occasional treat of locally produced nitrite-free

>bacon and my old habit of using the packages of freshly prepared

>delicious pork ears from Chinese grocery stores as a convenience

>food, my main experience with pork has been making a delicious soup

>with pork stomach once, which I'll be revisiting sometime. I'm

>pasting my old post about that below. Don't throw away the stomach!

>Or the ears!

>

>Mike

>SE Pennsylvania

>

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>From: " Anton " <bwp@u...>

>Date: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:31 pm

>Subject: pig stomach soup

>

>hello all,

>just a quick note about a successful improv from the other day. i

>bought a pig stomach from a local organic farm (it was frozen

>unfortunately), mainly just for fun since i've only eaten it at

>chinese shops, never prepared it myself. i wound up cutting up a

>few onions, cutting the stomach into bite-size pieces (some nice

>chunks of fat here and there on the outside!), and simmering it for

>a few hours, adding only some freshly roasted cumin, some ginger,

>and a pinch of celtic sea salt. i wanted to try something really

>simple not to mask the pig stomach too much. i let it reduce down

>to a curry consistency and it was DELICIOUS!! the pig stomach

>became very soft and tender. i'm trying to learn more about the

>great foods that come from the less popular parts of animals, partly

>in the spirit of frugality. i know there have been threads in the

>past about the economic side of feeding a large family NT-style, so

>maybe this could give someone some ideas, despite coming from a

>single guy.

>

>mike parker

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