Bacon martini anyone?

Yeah yeah yeah I know I haven’t written about any pork/bacon/other meats actually eaten BY ME in awhile.  I got invited out for seafood last night, so sue me.

Hopefully more amusement related to the topic of meat should tide you over until my friend makes me my magical meal o’ pork or I go to the restaurant show this weekend at the McCormick Place, whichever happens first.  So as for amusement?

How about “The Most Bizarre Bacon Products Ever“

Some of them are hilarious (bacon bra, bacon band-aids, or bacon tape anyone?), some are kind of gross (bacon breath mints, bacon ice cream), and some are, in my opnion, a good idea (The bacon-encrusted cup, namely. In the picture it’s filled with salad.  That’s like one HUGE step up from Bac-O’s!  Also, bacon salt.  C’mon tell me that wouldn’t be phenomenal on a baked potato…)

As for bacon cookies, I have to step in and say that my friend who is making me the meal o’ pork has already made these and I hear they’re quite awesome.

Beyond that, judge for yourself.  Can it be, is there a such thing as taking bacon too far???

Hey, nice shirt!

You gotta check out this shirt.  Yes, I most certainly own one; one of my girlie friends got it for me several years back and I enjoy it endlessly. My only overall complaint is that I wish they had a more manly-hued one for my rib-grilling-hot-dog-loving boyfriend, but really it’s the slogan that kills.  I think it’s a staple for anyone of similarly carnivorous mindset!

Course there’s always…

The meat shirt

I put bacon on my bacon

Meat is awesome

or

Powered by hot dogs
Man my friends are easy to shop for…I found about three people’s birthday gifts just looking at the meat-themed T-shirts!

 

Rib Review – Claim Jumper

Went out to Claim Jumper last night for my mother’s birthday.  I love this place and was in the mood for, you guessed it, pork covered in BBQ sauce!  So I went for the baby back ribs.

I’d give them an 8.5/10 – They were pretty tender but certainly didn’t drop off the bone.  The flavor was good, and had a slight hint of cinnamon, but not enough to be overpowering.  The BBQ sauce had a sweet and tangy flavor, and all in all, I enjoyed them, but they weren’t anywhere near the “best ribs ever” category.

Despite not being blown away by the baby back ribs, however, I still highly recommend this place based on AMAZING side dishes (fried zuchinni and cheese-potato cakes for me) and mega-tasty desserts.  

Gluttony, upping the ante on Thai stir fry and vegetarian conversion

It was my birthday celebration this weekend; 26 years of life, 25.25 of them have been spent as a carnivore-glutton.  I celebrated that fact with Saturday’s consumption of 2 hot dogs, 4 pulled-pork sliders, and half a hamburger.  I definitely have upcoming blogs in devoted extensively to hot dogs and pulled pork (my ultimate favorite), but the real find of my weekend,  was something called Prik Prow Noodle at this place. 

The place combines Chinese, Thai, and Japanese food, as well as offering a great selection of insane choke-a-T-Rex-huge sushi rolls.  But the Prik Prow Noodle is something I’ve never had before.  Their menu describes the dish as “Stir-fried flat rice noodle, carrots, onion, bellpepper, baby corn, green onion and chili paste”, which is certainly delicious.  My research tells me this is a Thai dish, given that “prik” is the Thai word I see in all the recipes that contain that chili-based sauce.  I can’t find a recipe for it anywhere online, although I do see “Prik Pow” coming up in searches, which leads me to believe a mistake might have been made on Thai Oscar’s menu.

I chose the dish namely because it seemed like it would be a little zingy without making my mouth feel like I needed to make out with a fire extinguisher, and I liked all the vegetables mentioned.  I wasn’t let down.  It was flavorful, slightly spicy, and I was pleasantly surprised with the texture and size of the flat noodles.  However, what put it over the edge was that my boyfriend had the brilliant idea to let them tag an extra $2.00 onto the order to throw some meat into that mess of stir-fried awesomeness.  Why not?  And furthermore, the choice made was BBQ pork.

And the ante was indeed upped.  Simple equation kids:

BBQ Pork + stir fry = GREAT
And on one more unrelated note, I had a great conversation with a friend this weekend.

Me: Are you still a vegetarian or whatever?

Him: Noooo…hell no.  I wasn’t going to stick with that.  Know what changed me?
Me: What?

Him: BUFFALO WINGS.

Score one more for team carnivore.

For the love of meat!

Welcome to a blog devoted to all things carnivorous.  I made this blogski because my friend promised to make me a dish that contains AT LEAST three types of pork in it.

Fact #1: I will write about other types of meat, but I am totally biased in favor of pork.  Deal with it.  Go to another blog named after YOUR favorite meat if you don’t like it.

Fact # 2: This is not a sexy site.  It’s not about “porking”, which may actually be the worst synonym for sex ever invented.  Sex is awesome, and so is pork, but they do not go together so closely, unless it is in the sentence I am just about to finish right now. 

This is mostly a place for me to explore my untapped desire to rave about restaurants that make good meat, post an occasional recipe, and occasionally go off onto tangents of my choosing.

So welcome! Butchers, barbeque chefs, and meat lovers enjoy!

***My apologies to the Kosher sects in advance, but what are you doing here???  Hog rules!***