Almost Time To Fire Up Your Grills And Cook Some SLIME BURGERS!

a reply to: ketsuko

So you take this stuff pretty seriously. " cinnamon and star anise and charred ginger" that's a challenge. I'll see how it turn's out I am gonna make it. Hopefully my house doesn't smell like cat pee, unfortunately I don't think that's where the whole Chinese restaurant/cat thing comes from.

a reply to: shawmanfromny

It could be worse. It wasn't General Tao's chicken that went missing. It was his cat!

a reply to: caterpillage

Waste not, want not. *shrug*

originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: shawmanfromny

And they wonder why we are soon as a country going to have to change our cancer rate to 1 in 2.

Don't get me wrong, I am an odd girl out in that the only meat I normally eat is wild game.

HOWEVER.

If you are going to eat meat, at least pick meat that isn't THAT.

S&F for the OP... a solid post that should make people think about the topic.

Wild game is great!
You could also go to an Amish meat market if available in your area, grass fed beef.

a reply to: caterpillage

There's a societal statement to be made over chicken nuggets; I am convinced more than 80% of kids in America would starve to death if chicken nuggets were taken off the market. It's the only thing they'll eat. And, it's a learned behavior too, but it doesn't have to be that way. True 'parenting' is an extremely endangered species anymore, and quickly going the way of the Dodo.

I'd be willing to bet the overwhelming majority of mini-vans in this country have at least one petrified chicken nugget lodged between the seats down by the floor...right next to the one or two old french fry escapees.

Go ahead and laugh, but it's sad really. That chicken nugget and those ancient fries got there while mom was hurriedly dumping junior off at the babysitter (also known as soccer practice) so she could have some quality Facebook time with her girlfriends all trying to one-up each other's kids and talk about Suzy behind her back on her cell phone so she feels better about her own life. And then, when it's time to pick junior up, it's straight to the medicine cabinet for junior's ADHD SSRI meds. Go lie down now, it's nap time.

She has no idea what they're teaching him in school, and not a care, it's just good he goes somewhere for 7 hours during the day, somewhere where he's someone else's responsibility. Oh, and don't worry ladies, dad is just as bad, if not worse. And the other 3 waking hours for junior are spent in parked in front of a video game.

What's for dinner?

Chicken nuggets/tenders are a statement about what modern society has become, and it's not a good one. And that video, the one of Jamie Oliver showing kids how nuggets are made yet they all still want one, demonstrates just how deeply it all goes.

a reply to: shawmanfromny

Pink slime

We try not to eat too much of the unreal crap but do consume maybe twenty percent of fast food in our diet. We buy beef from a farmer we know, usually buy Gerber or Miller Ahmish chickens, we do cook a lot of homemade meals. We avoid buying anything with Carrageenan in it, that stuff is a potent miticide and just because it is classified as a food thickener does not mean it does not have food preservation qualities. Yellow number five and six also are medicines. Too much in the diet is not good. Turmeric is a medicine for most northern Europeans, one that should not be overconsumed, it can take out most microbes in the gut. Mixing all of this chemistry is not safe.

Here is an article I have found. books.google.com... ZH5ILw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijlYXrtbDgAhUHOawKHT5tCnkQ6AEwFXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Carnosine%20effect%20on%20DAO&f=false

I was searching for carnosine, so you have to scroll to the top to get the info from the beginning.

a reply to: shawmanfromny

That's why I'm starting to grow more veggies in my garden for my family, as well as cutting my burger intake.

Don't cut your burger intake, just grind your own meat. It is actually a lot easier than people think.
Back in the day everyone ground their own meat, that's why there are so many antique grinders at the antique shops.

Just make sure you add in enough fat trimmings.

Also, school lunches should be a form of child abuse. I never knew how bad it was (I loved school lunch back in the day) until I went to eat at my daughters school. I don't even classify that as food. It is a grade below prison food.

originally posted by: Sabrechucker
a reply to: ketsuko

So you take this stuff pretty seriously. " cinnamon and star anise and charred ginger" that's a challenge. I'll see how it turn's out I am gonna make it. Hopefully my house doesn't smell like cat pee, unfortunately I don't think that's where the whole Chinese restaurant/cat thing comes from.

We used this recipe to start out with.

When we do it again, we will likely have some ideas about how to tweak it, but this one turned out really good.