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Oven roasted meat: Pork tenderloin

AGEs, pork, recipe, roasting, tenderloin

This cut of pork is the equivalent in the pig of the filet mignon in cattle. It is just as soft, and lean too. A 100 g portion of roasted p...

Ground meat treats: Zucchini and onion meatloaf

ground meat, meatloaf, recipe

A cousin of the meatball ( ), the meatloaf is a traditional German dish. The recipe below is for a meal that feeds 4-8 people. The ground be...

Pressure-cooked meat: Top sirloin

pressure-cooking, recipe, top sirloin

Pressure cooking relies on physics to take advantage of the high temperatures of liquids and vapors in a sealed container. The sealed contai...

Tender cuts of meat for the grill: Filet mignon and bison

beef, bison, filet mignon, recipe

Filet mignon is one of the tenderest cuts of beef. It is also one of my favorites. Filet mignon comes from the tenderloin area (see this pic...

Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)

biomagnification, mussels, protein, recipe, seafood

Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...

Beef meatballs, with no spaghetti

meatballs, recipe, slow-cooking

There are pizza restaurants, whose specialty is pizza, even though they usually have a few side dishes. Not healthy enough? Well, don’t desp...

Dried meat: Homemade beef jerky

beef, jerky, low carb, Plains Indians, protein, recipe

You can dry many types of meat, including beef, pork, goat, deer, and even some types of seafood, such as mussels. Drying meat tends to si...

Another kind of meatza: Ham, salami and cheese

cheese, fermented foods, ham, meatza, protein, recipe, salami

A few years ago I wrote about a meatza made with lean ground beef and bison ( ). This post is about another kind of meatza, one that takes...

Slow-cooked meat: Round steak, not grilled, but slow-cooked in a frying pan

AGEs, recipe, round steak, slow-cooking

I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am referring here to high heat cooking...

Steamed gulf shrimp with vegetables

low carb, omega-3, omega-6, protein, recipe, shrimp

Few would argue against eating seafood several times a week, except in the case of seafood allergy. Shrimp is a very good option, especially...

Liver and meatballs separated by a wall of sweet potatoes

beef liver, meatballs, microwave oven, recipe, sweet potato

A commenter wrote here some time ago that she liked to eat rice because rice can be easily used to separate food items on a plate. One can j...

Beef heart

beef heart, beef liver, grilling, recipe, simmering

I have posted here before about the nutrition value of beef liver, nature’s “super-multivitamin”. I have even speculated that grain-fed be...

How to break a coconut

coconut, recipe, saturated fat

The coconut is often presented as a healthy food choice, which it is, as long as you are not allergic to it. Coconut meat has a lot of satur...

Eating fish whole: Sardines

fish, food, omega-3, omega-6, recipe, sardines

Different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health; this includes bones and organs. Therefore it ...

What about some offal? Boiled tripes in tomato sauce

boiling, offal, recipe, tripe

Tripe dishes are made with the stomach of various ruminants. The most common type of tripe is beef tripe from cattle. Like many predators, o...

Ground meat treats: Beef and bison meatza

ground meat, meatza, recipe

At the time of this writing, there was no Wikipedia article for the term “meatza”, which surprised me a bit given the number of recipes on t...

How to make white rice nutritious

carbohydrates, glycemic load, recipe, refined carbs, rice, slow-cooking

One of the problems often pointed out about rice, and particularly about white rice, is that its nutrition content is fairly low. It is basi...

Eating fish whole: Smelts

fish, recipe, smelts

Since different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health, it makes sense to consume the fish whol...