to be an unrepentant carnivore?

[GraceAwayInAManger]

It's been done before, but I couldn't bring myself to read the threads as they would have made me cry - with longing!

I'm on the breadline, literally, and am a good budget cook. Lentils, five meals from a chicken, etc. BUT!! Today I spent some of my cold weather money on a joint of sirloin. I roasted it very fast, very hot. Brown on the outside & BLOODY on the inside. God, it's gorgeous!

Just eaten about half a pound of the stuff, and feel healthier than I have in months!

Fellow lovers of dead creatures, share your lascivious recipes here I'm ready to read and slaver.

I can't wait for Christmas - we have the bird in a bird (Partridge, Phessie, Turkey, Goose) for lunch. The rest of the afternoon is spent sprawled on the sofas fending off meat sweats

I had a friend who became quite a militant vegan who used to shove leaflets at me telling me to read them. I said I knew what happened to them , but I still didn't want to become vegetarian! I did feel guilty, not because of the animals, (although I do take time to make sure the meat I eat is at least Freedom Food approved if I can't afford freerange) I felt guilty because I didn't care enough to give up meat! I did stop eating meat for about a year once for financial reasons and because I had a lot of veggie friends. I felt terrible. Two fainting fits later, I had a big steak and have never looked back! And I didn't just eat cheese and chips. My food contained plenty of beans, pulses and vegetables. I don't know why it happened, I just know that it did, and that it stopped when I started eating meat again!

YANBU.

Meat is brilliant.

Oh god this thread is making me very very hungry. Good thing I have a nice bit of lamb for my dinner

My meaty favourites are:-

Slow cooked lamb (any bit'll do me!)

A good steak (I never cook it as I always ruin it - if anyone can tell me how to cook a good medium rare steak I will love them forever).

I do love a nice steak sarnie too - fav way is a good bit of steak not too thick and with as little fat as possible) in a crusty roll with butter, cheese and maybe an egg plus tommy k of course!

Pates - yum

Lasagne or spag bol with good lamb mince instead of beef - much juicer ;)

BBQ ribs

God I lOVE meat. The rarer the better! Don't believe in being veggie. We have a moral responsibility to eat meat!

Exactly, Catpuss. We have canine teeth because we're meant to eat animals! Otherwise, we'd have two (?) stomachs like those grass-eating ruminants. And then we'd do great big cow poos

Am waiting for the other half of yesterday's sirloin to heat up. Hurrah!

stnikkilarse (nice name!) - sear it in the frying pan, then turn the heat down & chuck some wine in with it. Should take about 7 mins for medium-rare. Hard to grill a medium steak without professional-standard equipment.

I love meat. I upset some people at work the other day as I bought partridges off a market stall during the day and put them in the office fridge. Apparently it was wrong of me to put animals with feathers on them in there. Silly me, of course animals actually normally grow on plastic trays, with a tampon under them and wrapped in plastic!

Partridges were nice though.

I'm an out and proud carnivore, and when I chose to make veggie noodles for my family last year (budgetary reasons you understand), my DD1 who was then 2.5 phoned up my mum crying, saying "I want meeeeeat Granny!!"

Attagirl, B&B's DD!!

Laffed out loud at animals growing on plastic trays with a tampon under them

Save the animals...Eat a vegitarian instead!

Kangaroo is kinda stringy and dry, there's no point really.

They feed it to tourists in Aussie pubs though.

Actual Aussies dont eat it, we do feed it to our dogs though. Makes them fart, but they love it.

Same with Fosters, really. Except substitute dogs for Brits.

Tatty - I used to eat roo all the time at home. You have to cook it low and slow but god it makes a fab roast.
But I wholeheartedly agree about the fosters.

I thought Fosters was brewed in England.

In fact, it is, because I used to pass the brewery on the way to a friend's house.

And yes, I love meat. I want to be like Darwin and eat as many different kinds of meat possible.

Lamb is the best. I rememeber going on a field trip to Ireland in Uni, and all the people on the coach were saying how cute the lambs were. I was thinking, "damn, they look tasty."

Then they all pissed me off by saying they didn't eat lamb because they were too cute.
So logically, to many of my coursemates, it was ok to eat chickens because they aren't cute. I made a face at them.

I love eating meat, too, though we eat vegetarian for half the week. However I find some of the pro-veal/ foie gras comments on this thread rather unpalatable.

We eat free-range, organic meat a few times a week for ethical, flavour and health reasons, and I certainly wouldn't be so naive as to say that that makes my meat-eating cruelty-free. But it's the 'I know it's cruel and I don't give a shit' attitude on here which I think is base, to say the least.

Aussies do eat Kangeroo. It is like venison you need to either cook it for hours and hours or barely at all.

I wouldn't eat a koala though, those things stink of piss absolutely reek IMO, I would think their meat would taste like wee as well.

Humans are animals, many animals eat other animals. I have lofty ideals because I am wealthy enough to afford them. If I wasn't wealthy enough I would still eat meat knowing that it was raised in a cruel manner. I do care, but I want to eat meat more than I care. No point hedging about it.

Not sure about lion, for some reason I think of cats as further up the food chain, I may have just been trained by cats over the years.

Wouldn't drink fosters though, bleugh.

Speedy, I used to eat ethical meat - in fact, my local butcher (in Clapham) was one of the organic trailblazers. But, then, I used to be well off. As I've said, I'm extremely grateful for non-ethical meat these days. It costs a third of the price; it doesn't taste as good and I feel sad that animals suffered for it - but, in the final analysis, my health is more important to me than the health of the creature that I eat.

The chunk of sirloin that prompted this thread - and which came from Aldi's budget range - made such a big difference to my sense of wellbeing, I've abandoned all aspirations towards 'considerate' eating. At least until I'm rich enough to purchase ethics, anyway!

Things like foie gras are a value judgement every time you eat them (not an option for me now, anyway). There are very few of those: white veal, perhaps, and dolphin. Outside of arcane Chinese 'delicacies' that cause visible suffering to the food, I can't think of many other examples.

In general, concern about the food you eat is a luxury.

I had a long conversation with a veggie once in the restaurant where I used to work. Something like ' poor lambs, how cruel to eat them...(lambs outside the window on the farm)
But madam if we didn't eat them they wouldn't be there in the first place...
That's incredibly naive of you.....'
Apparently if we didn't eat animals all the lovely farmers would continue to keep and breed sheep and cows just for the fun of it!!

No, GraceAway, eating meat every day is a luxury! You could eat better quality meat less often. Plus eating a lot of cheap meat does not improve your health.

MM, that's the principle I've been working to. Unfortunately I get faint, lack strength and am more depressed without a solid dose of animal protein (preferably still bleeding slightly) every day. I've had more than enough opportunity to test this hypothesis.

YY, Catpuss! They only exist at all because they were bred for eating ... They do make lovely landscape decorations, but quite expensive ones!!

Idiots like that would be torturing something/someone else anyway - and probably do, outside work The industry doesn't generate the behaviour.

Grace I'm very jealous of your sirloin, I was going to do that for New Years Day but now we've hada lovely invite. I may still do but for the Sunday (is that the 2nd?) instead. How long did you roast for (per lb) and what temp please?

Spit-roast pig torturer! With cranberry sauce.