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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, got the result of my MRI. I have a herniated disc that's pressing on two major lumbar nerves, which explains the mindboggling levels of pain. Physio tomorrow, doctor on Friday and then I'll hopefully have some sort of plan to get out of this.

Fingers crossed that therapy can relieve it without surgery!

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We're bracing for flash floods, lots of thunderstorms, and possible tornadoes over the next two days in these here parts.

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Mrs. Chickenboy and I have been experimenting with 'atypical' cuts of meat lately. A couple weeks ago it was beef tongue. Totally underrated. A tender, lean, tasty cut of meat.

This weekend it was beef 'cheeks'. Browned in a pan with olive oil, herbs and sea salt and then slow cooked in a crock pot with stock, stewed tomatoes, potatoes and carrots for 4 hours. Beef cheek stew = melt in your mouth goodness. [8D]

Tongue is very much valued in Russian cuisine. I think I ruined it for myself as a kid because I just had to see what it looked like raw, and it killed it for me. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Painters working hard to get CB's house ready for showing....

No doubt about it-that's a cow tongue, with the taste buds, papillae and so forth front and center. You've got to cook it with all that epidermis and stuff *on*, which is somewhat disconcerting from the 'looks' department.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Mrs. Chickenboy and I have been experimenting with 'atypical' cuts of meat lately. A couple weeks ago it was beef tongue. Totally underrated. A tender, lean, tasty cut of meat.

This weekend it was beef 'cheeks'. Browned in a pan with olive oil, herbs and sea salt and then slow cooked in a crock pot with stock, stewed tomatoes, potatoes and carrots for 4 hours. Beef cheek stew = melt in your mouth goodness. [8D]

Tongue is very much valued in Russian cuisine. I think I ruined it for myself as a kid because I just had to see what it looked like raw, and it killed it for me. [:D]

We'd been looking all over the place for tongue and beef cheeks. Our local supermarkets didn't have it. Even the local butcher shop would have made us buy a case (8) of them on special order. My wife found both of them-in quantity-at Walmart ([X(]) of all places.

The tongue was packaged just like it had been cut off of / out of the cow. No doubt about it-that's a cow tongue, with the taste buds, papillae and so forth front and center. You've got to cook it with all that epidermis and stuff *on*, which is somewhat disconcerting from the 'looks' department. Then you have to peel it off carefully.

So the prep work is cumbersome. But the muscle underneath (once cleared of some of the grissle and fat, of course) is surprisingly tender and succulent.

We slipped it into the kids' tacos with nary a fuss or a complaint. We told 'em after they were finished, of course. They were only a little surprised. We are constantly working on them to expand their horizons and not prejudge foods (and other things) based on initial appearances. Now we've got to figure out how to get them to eat brains and 'sweetbreads' (Thymus). [:D]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

No doubt about it-that's a cow tongue, with the taste buds, papillae and so forth front and center. You've got to cook it with all that epidermis and stuff *on*, which is somewhat disconcerting from the 'looks' department.

Yep. Thats what killed it for me. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Symon

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

No doubt about it-that's a cow tongue, with the taste buds, papillae and so forth front and center. You've got to cook it with all that epidermis and stuff *on*, which is somewhat disconcerting from the 'looks' department.

Yep. Thats what killed it for me. [:D]

Howdy, mouse. Kak te poujovayush sevodnya? Yeah me too; It’s tasty I guess, but it has a weird texture and looking at it (and thinking about it), eewww.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, got the result of my MRI. I have a herniated disc that's pressing on two major lumbar nerves, which explains the mindboggling levels of pain. Physio tomorrow, doctor on Friday and then I'll hopefully have some sort of plan to get out of this.

Fingers crossed that therapy can relieve it without surgery!

What he said.

Although I wouldn't be unduly afraid of some local and minimally invasive surgeries to take off some of the pressure, dude. They've come a long way in these sorts of surgeries in the last 20 years.

Good luck!

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America




Fingers crossed that therapy can relieve it without surgery!

What he said.

Although I wouldn't be unduly afraid of some local and minimally invasive surgeries to take off some of the pressure, dude. They've come a long way in these sorts of surgeries in the last 20 years.

Good luck!

Not afraid of that. It's not like they'll be slicing me open with a chainsaw; two or three little holes to push the instruments in. We'll see what happens over the next few days.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USS America




Fingers crossed that therapy can relieve it without surgery!

What he said.

Although I wouldn't be unduly afraid of some local and minimally invasive surgeries to take off some of the pressure, dude. They've come a long way in these sorts of surgeries in the last 20 years.

Good luck!

Not afraid of that. It's not like they'll be slicing me open with a chainsaw; two or three little holes to push the instruments in. We'll see what happens over the next few days.

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Cook for her John. Then she's yours! [:D]

ORIGINAL: Symon
I’m making grilled mutton chops with a tarragon/pomegranate sauce.