UPS just dropped off a package for me! Guess I'll be mixing up a brine tonight.
Wish I was getting some tongue tonight... :cross:
UPS just dropped off a package for me! Guess I'll be mixing up a brine tonight.
Snyder's Market (Snyder's BBQ now, or then, or was...) is not the answer. They moved to a new, better location about a year ago, and it appears, judging by the disconnected phone, and missing twitter and FB pages, they are no longer in business.
This is my white whale.
He said he thought they were currently out. For some reason they had a big run on tongue recently,
Or maybe tongue sausage? Haven't heard of that one yet?...
Hey Homer, did you ever get some tongue?
More people would eat tongue if they actually tried it. One of the best cuts of meat out there.
Well, my wife says I'm not supposed to talk about that part of our lives, but yes.
Hey, this reminds me I still need to contact the butcher and see if I can find a beef tongue to try. I'm picking up a half a hog next week, maybe I can get him to save a tongue for me.
I might have to give this a try.
There's a butcher that closed shop a few years back. They'd knocked out a part of the wall to the next store front so them and the bottle shop were one and the same (ahhh... meat and good beer... I was there at least once a week). When the bottle shop manager left the butcher closed up shortly thereafter. I saw a sign that a reputable Polish meat market across town is opening a second location at that old shop. Finally, someplace to get fine cuts of meat on this side of town (and order fatback without having to educate the big box "butcher" about what I want).
I think your untitled to at least half, ask for the whole head and toss it in your brew kettle and give it a boil
It'd be a bit of a ride, but our favorite meat market is run by a Polish couple called Polanski's in Amherst, OH. Near Lorain & near to I 90 & rt 58.
So I bought a half a hog from a guy at work and went to the butcher to pick it up. As he's getting ready to haul it out to the Jeep I ask if he has any Beef Tongue.
I get a strange look and he asks if I really want one.
I say yes.
So he brings one out to me for free.
Apparently he doesn't get many requests for them!
Soon as I get a chance I'm going to boil the skin off and smoke that sucker (er.. licker) without the family knowing what it is.
Blanching water should be a good soup starter...
Also, keep that butcher on speed dial now that you know he has the meats :-D. I wonder if he can hook you up with oxtail, liver, and/or tripe?
Yeah, he can't provide me liver or tripe...
I've been curious about beefheart, though. Grandma used to make a pickled venison heart when she was alive. They didn't throw much of that animal away...
@CreamyGoodness, do you have a recipe for the brine you used?
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