Pork Nuggets!

[jane jane]

Do you hate us, Lori, for hijacking your thread? We meant no harm!

I try to be a benevolent non-preaching vegetarian (I have to be, as Mr. Jane and one of the Junior Janes LOVE their cooked mammal flesh) but something I won't do is serve something that looks like the body part it is...that would rule out piggy-feet, at least in the early stages of preparation! Same for pig ears or snouts (ugh, anyway.) Also, I won't cook a little baby animal---if anybody around here is craving veal or lamb, they can go to a restaurant, because I will not roast anything that barely had a chance to gambol in the meadow before having its throat slit in a bloody abattoir.

Actually, the little calves and lambs probably never got within half a mile of a "meadow"---they are bred to be eaten, kept cruelly in confined stalls to fatten them up, and maybe see the sunshine through a tiny window, at best.

I'm not a vegan, but I might be one soon---after reading about how poor humble dairy cattle are treated, and what-all chickens go through to give us eggs.

Bon appetit!

[lorisunshine]

Hello Jane Jane,
Thank you for your reply. Let me start by saying that hate is one emotion I rarely indulge in, as it serves no purpose and is only counterproductive to the hater.

As for the recipe; it's great if you like that sort of thing, if you don't then by all means stick with the legumes etc.

As an active member of the 'World wildlife fund', the 'Society against cruelty to Animals' as well as my local chapter of the Human Society, I am painfully aware of the deplorable conditions in which some of our animals (Pets and domestics) are being kept and I am trying to do something about it. However the fact remains that in my geographic location fully 85 percent of all citizens derive their income from farming. Raising animals for slaughter provides an income to these people. We are omnivours and have been using meat in our diet for millennia. I am not a vegetarian and will never be one, but I, in fact, do eat very little meat, red white or otherwise. I have learned to use all of the cuts, rather than just the fillet or loin. I am frugal and I want my footprint on this planet to be as small as possible.

I applaud people who practice a vegetarian lifestyle but would also like to point out the origin of 'ALL' pet food. It is derived from the off cuts of other animals as well as plain simple "roadkill".

I am really not offended if you or anyone else doesn't like my recipe, it's perfectly ok.

Unfortunately somewhere along the line the forum has experienced so much negativity lately and everyone is tiptoeing around on eggshells. What happened to all the fun we used to have? Like Tawny said in one of her ever eloquent posts: "I miss laughing hysterically" and so do I.

So, if anybody else has something to say about my poor little pigs feet, bring it on and make it funny.
Love,
Lori

[Noelle]

The majority of the fat is simmered out and the rest is pure "collagen". It is so good for your skin and your bones.

I thought you were going to say "apply to skin." Sorry.

[lorisunshine]

..............do whatever it takes................

[Determinator]

Lorisunshine, throw me a pig hoof! sounds good to me. I just had "Salame Testa" at a fabulous Italian restaurant in Vegas the other day. It's made from pig head and ear parts. It was also insanely good!
Humans are omnivores and that works for me.

Poor Victoria...that was so funny! cracked me up dear. post traumatic tripe syndrome HAHAHAHAHA. love it. Can't say I'm wild about tripe though.

and yes, puppies and cats are eaten all the time in China. sorry, just a simple truth. My dad had dog when he was in Vitnam. Didn't move him enough to want to cook his own puppy when he got back home though.

[KatieSmiles]

salame teste D?
Are you sure it didn't mean "big balls"? Just asking

[soccermom]

LS-your comment just unseated a deep-rooted, supressed memory of mine....

One of my mother's favorite things to serve was raw (yes,raw) hamburger meat that we would roll in salt on an old, bacteria-ridden wooden butcher block. She called this little treat Bally-Meat.
ohhh..and I loved it.