Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 just like eating the fat, you can work your way down to this slowly - no need to jump off the deep end! if you enjoy steak, then just start cooking it ever so slightly rarer and rarer, slowly, until you've got it down to pink in the middle, then red in the middle, then cool in the middle...so it takes you a year, that's fine! also, a sauce can help too! At 01:34 PM 6/18/2004, you wrote: >I'm guessing this raw meat thing isn't as strange as it seems to me, >but I have to say, it's one part I don't think I'll be able to >adopt. Can anyone else think of raw meat examples because I'm >thinking and not able to think of a single one I could get past the >raw bit to stomach... not even sushi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 I've actually never heard of raw pork being a part of the Italian diet...unless she meant prosciutto, which is CURED, not raw, and totally delicious (especially with ripe melon). Personally, I would never eat raw pork or chicken (eeeewww). Beef and fish are another story... Italians also eat carpaccio which is raw beef, very thinly sliced, often served with a bed of arugula and thinly shaved parmesan. If you ever get a chance to eat carpaccio at a fine Italian restaurant, I'd be surprised if you didn't like it. Other traditionally raw meat dishes: ceviche--raw seafood marinated in citrus, olive oil, and other stuff--often is squid, scallops, whitefish--the lemon juice kind of " cooks " the seafood (it turns opaque). When well-prepared, it's delish. oysters--YUM sushi--Double YUM (high quality is essential--have you ever been to a really good Japanese restaurant?) Steak tartar--actually haven't tried this, but will when I get the chance at a GOOD restaurant. The salmon tartar recipe in NT is a GREAT starting point--just be sure to get wild salmon (from Alaska). ps--can you tell how much I like eating in restaurants? It's my nutritional pitfall... On Raw Meat... > I've been reading NT and I have to say, I'm still not big on the > eating raw meat thing, the whole idea turns me very green at the > gills. But when I started thinking about it, my hubby likes eating > raw ground beef. (I have to leave the kitchen when he does it > though!) And I also remembered a friend I had in high school. She > was an exchange student to Italy one year, and when she got back, > she told us she apparently highly offended her host family when they > offered her raw pork. Her response (mentally, not verbally) was " No > thanks, I'll pass on the botchulism, please. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 I also think *thinly sliced* with raw beef is a huge helper--see previous post about carpaccio. ----- Original Message ----- > the middle, then cool in the middle...so it takes you a year, that's fine! > also, a sauce can help too! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 > I also think *thinly sliced* with raw beef is a huge helper--see previous > post about carpaccio. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > the middle, then cool in the middle...so it takes you a year, that's fine! > > also, a sauce can help too! > > Mebbe I'm closer than I think. I adore my steaks rare, with plenty of moo left in them. Something about the ground beef tho with no cooking at all icks me out. I'm so squeamish... Speaking of steaks, I'm craving one horribly for the last two days. I'm guessing it's an iron craving? I'm wanting chocolate badly too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 > Can anyone else think of raw meat examples because I'm > thinking and not able to think of a single one I could get past the > raw bit to stomach... not even sushi... > > I eat dried meat that has not been heated, that's as close as I get to raw. I think it might have most of the benefits of raw meat. Anyone have any info on dried meat nutrition wise? regards, Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 >Mebbe I'm closer than I think. I adore my steaks rare, with plenty >of moo left in them. Something about the ground beef tho with no >cooking at all icks me out. I'm so squeamish... I like mine cooked on the outside, and certainly not ground! Rare steak is good! I like lox too, esp. if they are a little drier (not so mushy). Marinated fish is good too, esp. something like pickled herring. Sashimi doesn't taste like anything to me. -- Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 >>>if you enjoy steak, then just start cooking it ever so slightly rarer and rarer, slowly, until you've got it down to pink in the middle, then red in the middle, then cool in the middle...so it takes you a year, that's fine! also, a sauce can help too!<<< One of my favourite quotes from my Dad is about rare meat: " If that meat was cooked any less it would be still mooing " . Cheers, Tas'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 That's what wasabi and (wheat-free!!) soy sauce are for! ----- Original Message ----- From: " Heidi Schuppenhauer " <heidis@...> < > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 3:44 PM Sashimi doesn't > taste like anything to me. > > -- Heidi Jean > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Well THAT's an idea. Anything with wasabi and pickled ginger tastes pretty good ... -- Heidi Jean >That's what wasabi and (wheat-free!!) soy sauce are for! > > > >Sashimi doesn't >> taste like anything to me. >> >> -- Heidi Jean >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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