I sure love variety meats, also called offal or organ meats. I love liver, heart, kidney, sweetbreads (pancreas and thymus), tendon, skin. It is all so delicious, nutritious, and such a wonderful variety of tastes and textures compared to muscle meat!
But most of them, (besides sweetbreads, tongue, oxtail, or marrow bones) are too lean to eat on their own. Too lean eating can cause a lot of problems such as muscle cramping and hypothyroidism. So I strive to maintain roughly 50/50 fat and protein by calorie.
I like to eat sweetbreads along with kidney. Together they are the right fat to protein ratio.
For liver, I have been mincing it with a sharp knife, and frying with a really good serving of reserved sheep fat. I eat all the fat. That way it is the proper ratio.
For beef tendon, I make an aspic (gelatin) with pieces of the tendon in it. Once it is refrigerated, I grate a big serving of reserved sheep fat on top. So delicious! And the proper fat ratio.
I plan on getting some ground beefheart and making a paté by lightly cooking it with a good serving of reserved sheep fat, then refrigerating.
I will be all out of my whole ram purchase in about a week. It was a great buy at under $3 per pound including processing to order! So I am deciding on how to replace it.
I think I will concentrate on all these organ meats, since I enjoy them so much and they are just as affordable. More so, because there is practically no waste with organ meats.
If I feel like getting some muscle meat, I might get some cheap fatty cuts like oxtail, tongue, and beef ribs.
I have been eating pretty much solely ruminants. I feel that pork, poultry, eggs, and dairy are just not good for my health. I still am drinking only water or plain, seltzer water, and small amounts of diluted pure vodka with seltzer. I do not use any herbs, spices, or salt.
I read an article yesterday that people's average body temperature has lowered over the decades since 98.6F was established as "normal". So my average temperature of 97F is actually not that unusual after all! Good to know!
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