Beyond Bacon: Paleo Recipes that Respect the Whole Hog Author: Matthew McCarry Stacy Toth | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DQ98PPO | Format: EPUB
Beyond Bacon: Paleo Recipes that Respect the Whole Hog Description
"Beyond Bacon" pays homage to the humble hog by teaching you how to make more than a hundred recipes featuring cuts from the entire animal. While bacon might be the most popular part of the pig for those following the paleo diet, there is a plethora of other delicious and nutrient dense cuts to enjoy.
Pastured pork is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), the "good fats" our doctors want us to eat. Beyond Bacon breaks the myths behind this often eschewed meat and shows you how create delectable dishes that are grain-, legume-, dairy-, and refined sugar-free. Beyond Bacon allows you to improve your health and the environment by focusing on sustainable swine. Don't let the dried out pork of your youth scare you away. All the recipes in "Beyond Bacon" are elegant yet approachable, making it the ultimate cookbook for the foodie in you. You'll find:
- Grain-free Pie Crust, made with lard,
- Perfect Pork Chops, better than most restaurant steaks,
- Swedish Meatballs with liver gravy,
- Pho Soup with chitterling "noodles",
- instructions on how to properly BBQ and make your own sauces, and
- a guide to rendering your own CLA-rich lard and how to cook with it.
"Beyond Bacon" delivers mouth-watering photos for each delicious recipe. With a rustic aesthetic and appreciation for tradition, "Beyond Bacon" recreates the rich and wonderful food perfected generations ago in a healthful way.
- File Size: 9064 KB
- Print Length: 378 pages
- Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing (June 30, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DQ98PPO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,336 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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There are a few things you should know about me before reading on:
1)I cook a whole lot. I often wonder if I spend more time in the kitchen than I do doing everything else combined.
2)I am not what you would call a "reader." I very rarely read non-fiction books for pleasure. It is hard to engage me long enough to get really interested in something unless it has a great story line.
3)I don't like cookbooks much. I think this goes back to #1. I am not the kind of person who looks up a great recipe, goes out and gets everything I need for it & comes home to cook it up. I am more the kind who opens the fridge, freezer, and/or pantry and uses whatever I have to whip up a meal. Cookbooks just don't usually fit into that.
Enter Beyond Bacon...
I ordered a whole pig from my favorite local farm last year and have been cooking my way through it. When Stacy announced that she and Matt were working on Beyond Bacon, I was excited to have some new ideas to add into my family's menu rotation. I saved several of the more uncommon cuts so that I could try them using recipes in the book. When I was lucky enough to get a preview copy, I flipped through it and was immediately drawn in by the amazing photographs. The food looked incredible. Kudos to Aimee! I got it home and hoped to get some time to check it out. Then it got lost in the shuffle of life with kids. When I finally got a moment of quiet, I decided to reach for it. That was it. It had me at Bacon. I sat and read the entire thing. For several hours. I thought everything looked and sounded amazing, but still wasn't sure about using a cookbook for my family's meals, so I decided to look for recipes that I could make using just with what I currently had in the house. I hoped to find maybe one or two.
It's not often that I get a cookbook and read cover to cover and truly enjoy every bit.
With Beyond Bacon, Paleo Recipes That Respect the Whole Hog, I stayed late into the night reading every single page from front to back! It is so much more than just a cookbook!
By the end of my reading, I had learned a few new things I ignored about this beautiful animal, the hog, was thoroughly impressed by Stacy and Matt's eloquent style, was salivating from all the mouth-watering photography, and had selected a number of recipes to try immediately...
Stacy and Matt, the authors of the Paleo Parents blog and Eat Like a Dinosaur (A Recipe and Guidebook for Gluten-free Kids), dedicate this book to the entire animal, from understanding how important it is that the hogs live and grow in a humane environment and how that affects the quality of their lives and their meat, to rendering your own lard, making your own cracklings, to explaining the health benefits of eating pork, dispelling the myths around the "risks" of consuming pork products, clarifying how to purchase the whole hog and recommending how to communicate with your butcher to get the right cuts for your needs, to beautifully presented, photographed and easy-to-follow recipes that include savoury dishes and sweet "thangs" that will intrigue and inspire you.
The book is more than a book with recipes; it's a well-written, well-researched, respectful praise to this animal, this omnivore, which is perfectly in balance (when raised humanely) with its environment both for us, its predators, and for the plants and animals lower than it on the food chain.
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