Subj : Brisket
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Sep 22 2022 11:57:34

Hi Dale,

 RH> Sounds good, we've got a brisket on the smoker right now. Got it on a
 RH> good mark down the other day as it was approaching the last day of
 RH> sale.

 DS> It used to be that the Giant stores in Columbia area would have a
 DS> summer sale on brisket.  Full brisket price was under $3.00 per pound.
 DS>  We took advantage of that more than once.  Then one one day near the

Sounds like something well worth taking advantage of. We usually don't
shop Food Lion but their flyer in the weekly paper showed Boston butts
at $1.29/lb. 10 pound bags of chicken leg quarters were .59/lb so Iasked
Steve to go over and take a look. He bought one butt, one bag of
chicken, saw the brisket on sale so grabbed that and a few other small
items. Yesterday, while re-packaging the chicken for the freezer, he
said he'd not buy that brand again--didn't elaborate but I guess the
quality (I didn't see them) wasn't that great.


 DS> end of the posted sale, almost all of the Giant stores said they were
 DS> out of them. We went to one store asking for the sale price on brisket
 DS> and showed him the advertisement.  He went back into the depths of the
 DS> meat market and came out with a brisket that he marked at $2.79 for
 DS> us.  It was a lot
 DS> smaller than the full briskets we had gotten before.  We then realized
 DS> that it was the flat part only which were marked at $9 or more in the
 DS> stores.  We did not have that end part which has a fat part of two
 DS> inches in the middle.  That was a pretty good deal.  Plus it was good
 DS> eating as well.

Can't beat a deal like that. Steve trimmed a good bit of fat off of this
brisket, then rendered the fat. Got a quart jar of unrefined beef tallow
to use in cooking. He took some smoked brisket over to a neighbor who'd
brought some goodies for us a couple of weeks ago; she texted him a few
minutes later that she tried a bit of it and it was really good. He also
took some, plus some (Wegman's) potato salad and mini cannolies to
another neighbor last night, no reaction yet on that one.

 DS>       Title: Pork Porkolt
 DS>  Categories: Pork, Stew, Hungarian
 DS>       Yield: 4 servings

 DS>       3 tb Fat or oil
 DS>       1 md Onion, chopped
 DS>       4    Cloves garlic, chopped
 DS>       1 lg Bell pepper (green or red,
 DS>            -no matter), chopped
 DS>       1 lb Pork, cubed (shoulder is
 DS>            -good )
 DS>       3 tb Good Hungarian paprika
 DS>       1 ts Salt
 DS>            -black pepper to taste
 DS>       1 c  Stewed tomatoes, with liquid
 DS>            -OR
 DS>   1 1/2 c  Chopped fresh tomatoes

Something to think about for the pound and half or so of pork cibes I've
got in the freezer. Other option I'm debating is chili verde; either one
will have to wait a few more weeks tho.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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.... Get shopping while the gettin' is good!!!

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