Well I have the answer to that...
In my freezer. 3 kg slab of the stuff straight from the abattoir!
Why do I have this mass of beef? Because Mother in law gifted it to us. Even though we very rarely eat beef.
By no means am I ungrateful for this gift of frozen flesh. In fact I decided to defrost it today as I could use the room in my already overstocked freezer. Little did I know how time consuming defrosting and hacking it would be.
The slab spent from 10am till 4pm defrosting. Then took me 45 mins to hack into manageable bits. I guess it doesn't sound so bad, until I add in the rampaging toddler who just happened to hurt himself 4 times while I was wrist deep in cow meat! Try explaining to a crying 2 year old that "Mummy cant pick you up right now because her hands are covered in stinky cows blood" Needless to say he wasn't very understanding.
Once the meat was done I roasted some, it was still 1/2 raw, even though I cooked it for double the time it said to. And the other 2 kgs are chopped into cubes until tomorrow when i decide what to do with them.
You might be wondering the point of this post...
I guess I felt the need to put it out there my utter disgust at the smell, feel and overall experience of chopping up this fine hunk of meat. Especially since I ended up having nutri grain for dinner since I cant bare even slightly rare meat. And Mr Mr had ravioli (yes my child eats better than I do) So all that effort was for naught.
I think Ill stick to beef stir frys in future, that stuff thats already chopped and ready to throw in the pan!
Well I have the answer to that...
In my freezer. 3 kg slab of the stuff straight from the abattoir!
Why do I have this mass of beef? Because Mother in law gifted it to us. Even though we very rarely eat beef.
By no means am I ungrateful for this gift of frozen flesh. In fact I decided to defrost it today as I could use the room in my already overstocked freezer. Little did I know how time consuming defrosting and hacking it would be.
The slab spent from 10am till 4pm defrosting. Then took me 45 mins to hack into manageable bits. I guess it doesn't sound so bad, until I add in the rampaging toddler who just happened to hurt himself 4 times while I was wrist deep in cow meat! Try explaining to a crying 2 year old that "Mummy cant pick you up right now because her hands are covered in stinky cows blood" Needless to say he wasn't very understanding.
Once the meat was done I roasted some, it was still 1/2 raw, even though I cooked it for double the time it said to. And the other 2 kgs are chopped into cubes until tomorrow when i decide what to do with them.
You might be wondering the point of this post...
I guess I felt the need to put it out there my utter disgust at the smell, feel and overall experience of chopping up this fine hunk of meat. Especially since I ended up having nutri grain for dinner since I cant bare even slightly rare meat. And Mr Mr had ravioli (yes my child eats better than I do) So all that effort was for naught.
I think Ill stick to beef stir frys in future, that stuff thats already chopped and ready to throw in the pan!
Where's the beef?
Well I have the answer to that...
In my freezer. 3 kg slab of the stuff straight from the abattoir!
Why do I have this mass of beef? Because Mother in law gifted it to us. Even though we very rarely eat beef.
By no means am I ungrateful for this gift of frozen flesh. In fact I decided to defrost it today as I could use the room in my already overstocked freezer. Little did I know how time consuming defrosting and hacking it would be.
The slab spent from 10am till 4pm defrosting. Then took me 45 mins to hack into manageable bits. I guess it doesn't sound so bad, until I add in the rampaging toddler who just happened to hurt himself 4 times while I was wrist deep in cow meat! Try explaining to a crying 2 year old that "Mummy cant pick you up right now because her hands are covered in stinky cows blood" Needless to say he wasn't very understanding.
Once the meat was done I roasted some, it was still 1/2 raw, even though I cooked it for double the time it said to. And the other 2 kgs are chopped into cubes until tomorrow when i decide what to do with them.
You might be wondering the point of this post...
I guess I felt the need to put it out there my utter disgust at the smell, feel and overall experience of chopping up this fine hunk of meat. Especially since I ended up having nutri grain for dinner since I cant bare even slightly rare meat. And Mr Mr had ravioli (yes my child eats better than I do) So all that effort was for naught.
I think Ill stick to beef stir frys in future, that stuff thats already chopped and ready to throw in the pan!
1 comments:
Stir fry is the way to go, or beef stroganoff? Beef satay?
Just be greatful you weren't the cow. If only you knew what goes into bringing that lump of raw meat to your freezer ... no, no, I don't mean your mother-in-law.