Mama's Boys Talkin' Cookin'

tbh last time I went to the one on jackson ave it wasn’t as good as I remembered

 

A cute story. We wanted to take my dad out to eat a while back. My wife and daughter wanted Chinese food, so we decided to go to a place in Turkey Creek. My dad starts the little complaints, not that he doesn't want to go there, but a couple of things about going there on a Friday night, the wait time is going to be crazy. I was like, if it's a long wait, we'll go somewhere else. Well we get there and the lady says something like, it's going to be about 5 or 10 minutes, because we had 10 people. That got him going. Well it ended up being like 3 and a half minutes. We are sitting down eating and he's still talking about the wait. I said, Dad, when we go out to eat in Miami, its 45 minutes to an hour, no matter where you go on a Friday night. He says, I don't know why you live down there. I'm like, mother[uck fay]er, because you moved us down there when we were kids.

 

Gotta get there about 11:45.

 

In my experience they can be fairly inconsistent. I’ve had awesome brisket there and brisket I’d have been ashamed to share with a friend after telling them it was good.

 

I had pork, but I feel you

 

I don’t think the pork is really anything special.

 

Depends. Bacon...well it's bacon. Cured pork like salami and prosciutto, man I love that that stuff.

 

Commercial pork isn't all that great IMO.

But if you can find a local farmer that raises them with access to forage. It's as good as meat gets. It's amazing what the difference in fats does for the taste.

 

I went to a Spanish deli type place, they had hams that were in the 6 to 700 coconut range.

 

Buying direct from a farm is a fraction of the cost, too.

Find a hog farmer and someone to scald it, and you’re probably still paying less than 1/2 price of what a store / butcher charges.

 

Can't the farmer just kill the pig without the embarrassment of telling it it's been behaving bad too? j/k

 

Some of those things take 6 months to cure(at least prosciutto does). I don't know if I'd drop that kind of money on something like that, but I'd bet it's damn tasty.

 

I was drooling over them. The guy was telling me they're some kind of special pig that only eat walnuts if I remember. He said the ones he sold were midrange hams. Oh how I wanted to try that ham.

 

Tell him his mother is a midrange ham, triggering a food fight. Boom, free midrange ham delivered at your face.

 

https://www.jamon.com/about-jamon-iberico.html

Here it is, they only eat acorns, maybe the translation was off

 

Yeah, I've heard about that ham... Couple places in Atlanta have them but I just can't see throwing down that type of money for one... They are supposed to be the best tasting pig on the planet.

I've had Wagyu a few times, it was good but I wouldn't kill my mother for a piece of it.

 

Well that's a relief.

 

https://www.compartduroc.com/product/baby-back-rib-butt-bbq-competition-grilling-pack/

Slightly less pricey than jamon... I’ve never tried these but the competition boys swear by ‘em...

 

Wood ducks eat mostly acorns and they're delicious

 

3/4 of this thread needs to be split off into a Mama's Boys Talkin' Cookin' thread.