[jyl]

I'm on a cheap cuts and offal kick. My project is to eat meat cuts that sell for very very cheap. Just for the challenge.

Pork neck bones is $1.21/lb. Makes a great stew, cooked with onion, celery, carrot, garlic, jalapeņo pepper, taco seasoning, wine, and rice, salt and pepper. Takes a couple steps to remove the bones and chop the meat. Deep flavor, more than usual for pork.

Pork spleen is $1.60/lb. I made a pate, with butter, onion, garlic, amaretto, wine, anchovy, olive oil, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper. Pork spleen is a mild meat, this pate is agreeable and even a little bland. Some capers would help.

No pics - sorry - stew and pate are not really photogenic.

Next up is pork heart, $1.43/lb.

Interesting, the clientele of the Chinese market seem to value some stranger parts of the pig more highly than the bits I've just mentioned. Pork ears, intestines, feet and uterus all cost more than the prices just listed, like $3-4/lb.

After finishing up le pig, I plan to eat my way through the off cuts of le cow and la chicken. Then there is a whole counter of weird fish discards that, remarkably, command actual money.