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Chinese New Year image #2: It’s good eatin’!

I’m a firm believer in the Chinese rule for food: anything with four legs that isn’t the table is fair game to cook and serve on a bed of rice.

Year of the Horse! Photo with overlay pointing out the cuts of meat on a horse: chuck, rib, short rib, short loin, sirloin, rump, round, and plate.

Remember, the easiest way to get your hands on horsey goodness is…

Bag of 'köttbullar', a.k.a. Swedish meatballs, from IKEA.

Conan O'Brien doing monologue: 'Traces of horsemeat have been discovered in IKEA's Swedish meatballs. Wow, it almost makes you want to stop taking your family to dinner at a furniture store.'

And let’s not forget the horsey universal mystery of Swedish meatballs, as put forth in Babylon 5:

One reply on “Chinese New Year image #2: It’s good eatin’!”

I’ve tried horsemeat (there are a couple of ‘cheval’ butchers in Toronto) and it went…ok. It has a decent flavour but the loin has a mouthfeel similar to liver. The mince is ok but I think it needs to be mixed with something to give it a better texture.

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