Pork Neck Bones- This Weeks Special

[Johnnie Fedora]

Got a trip coming up so I'm trying to cut the grocery budget for extra vacation cash.

Can you actually make anything good to eat from pork neck bones? They are $0.39/lb this week.

Recipes welcome.

How do you cut your grocery budget w/o eating icky stuff?

 

[ChiTownZee]

I've thrown a neck bown in a pot of gravy (speghetti sauce) to season it. There's really no meat on it.

 

[FatCow]

Don't forget that anything from the neck area got shooting amount of cholestrol in it.


[homer's_voice] hmmmm... cholestrol! [/homer's_voice]

 

[powellrj]

they are a great flavoring for meals like beans or greens (which by the way are great budget saver meals). When I am trying to cut costs we will eat lots of meatless meals or just use meat to flavor. Things like rice, beans and pasta and potatoes will really cut your costs.

 

[ohanaMAMA]

neckbones... bog those babys up in rice.

To a full pot of water add

neckbones
salt to taste
pepper to taste
1 chopped onion

any other seasoning salt you like.. i use lowreys or Jhonnys

boil until meat comes off bones

DO NOT DRAIN
remove as many bones as you can.

add enough uncooked rice to water to soak up fluid.
cook on a slow heat until rice is done.

I serve with canned black eyed peas and collard greens with fried fatback and cornbread... CHEAP dinner.

 

[dandave]

ohanaMAMA, Oh the memories of suppers, you have brought back!! I grew up in Myrtle Beach, SC. That meal you just described sounds so good to me stuck down here in FL, where they don't even know what fatback <i>is</i>! We boiled the neckbones, then added 1 cup of rice to two cups of remaining liquid, though. Heaven...
I don't care what it costs. I'd take that meal over prime rib anyday, but please give me some hot pepper vinegar for my collards.

 

[ohanaMAMA]

dan

hon Myrtle Beach is about an hour from here on hwy 301.
I am in Dillon near South of the Border.

and yah baby. we bottle our own hot pepper vinegar from peppers from our own garden.. mmmm mmmmm

i will say though that it IS a southern thing. I was raised in Alaska and never even saw a "neckbone" until I married a southern man. I am a convert though!

 

[Cindy B]

You could also use it for soup broth, couldn't you?

I was going to suggest rice as well.

 

[dandave]

ohanaMAMA, Luck you to marry a Southern Man! I ended up with one from Syracuse, NY. Not only do I have to translate the SC language, but the food, as well.
I fill up on the *good stuff* every chance I can make it home.

Johnnie Fedora, Enjoy your neckbones (with rice, hopefully)! They may be inexpensive, but they can also be made to be delicious.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by dandave
ohanaMAMA, Oh the memories of suppers, you have brought back!! I grew up in Myrtle Beach, SC. That meal you just described sounds so good to me stuck down here in FL, where they don't even know what fatback <i>is</i>! We boiled the neckbones, then added 1 cup of rice to two cups of remaining liquid, though. Heaven...
I don't care what it costs. I'd take that meal over prime rib anyday, but please give me some hot pepper vinegar for my collards.

Ok, I HAVE to know, what is hot pepper vinegar? Where can you get it? I LOVE greens and this sounds great. I love the stuff you all eat in the South, much nicer than the north. Sausage gravy with biscuits is one of my very favorites.

 

[dandave]

Hi Gail!!
Hot pepper vinegar is made by stuffing hot peppers (and sometimes baby green tomatoes or cut-up wedges of bell peppers) into a mason jar, pouring in white vinegar, and canning or "pickling" the whole concoction. As it sits, the heat from the hot pepper permeates the vinegar. You can eat the pickled peppers with greens, too, but the vinegar is fantastic poured on collards and mustard greens by itself.
It was a step-grandfather from the NC mountains who introduced me to the baby green tomatoes and bell peppers in the hot pepper, BTW. I grew up on basically just the hot pepper in vinegar pickling combo.
It really is fantastic.

 

[Crissup]

You might be able to find a good deal on tripe somewhere. Or maybe a nice piece of cow tongue (which I actually like on tacos).

 

[tink2dw]

From way out, north west coastal area,I've never heard of any of that food.

Anyone for headcheese??

 

[jgates]

Hey - we have headcheese in Wisconsin!!! You are not going to see it on my plate though - but my grandma loved it!!!

How about lutefisk? (yuch - but mom loves it).

How about sidepork? (grease on a plate but I do like it)

DH's favorite - Green fried tomatoes (can you say STINKY kitchen?)

I'll just take some grits up here please (nearest Waffle House is about 6 hours away) with honey. Otherwise the stuff you are describing sounds yucky.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by dandave
Hi Gail!!
Hot pepper vinegar is made by stuffing hot peppers (and sometimes baby green tomatoes or cut-up wedges of bell peppers) into a mason jar, pouring in white vinegar, and canning or "pickling" the whole concoction. As it sits, the heat from the hot pepper permeates the vinegar. You can eat the pickled peppers with greens, too, but the vinegar is fantastic poured on collards and mustard greens by itself.
It was a step-grandfather from the NC mountains who introduced me to the baby green tomatoes and bell peppers in the hot pepper, BTW. I grew up on basically just the hot pepper in vinegar pickling combo.
It really is fantastic.

Thanks dandave,
Since I am not into canning, can you buy it somewhere?

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by Crissup
You might be able to find a good deal on tripe somewhere. Or maybe a nice piece of cow tongue (which I actually like on tacos).

That, btw, is not just southern, my relatives from Nova Scotia and those two items were on the menu.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by jgates
Hey - we have headcheese in Wisconsin!!! You are not going to see it on my plate though - but my grandma loved it!!!

How about lutefisk? (yuch - but mom loves it).

How about sidepork? (grease on a plate but I do like it)

DH's favorite - Green fried tomatoes (can you say STINKY kitchen?)

I'll just take some grits up here please (nearest Waffle House is about 6 hours away) with honey. Otherwise the stuff you are describing sounds yucky.

Ah, yes, headcheese, another tempting taste delight from the kitchens of my crazy German family from Nova Scotia. Tried it once, hated it!!!! My aunt used to make Mince Meat with venison, used to love it till I found Bambi was in it. How about Pickled Herring, love that.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by GAIL HAYDEN
Ah, yes, headcheese, another tempting taste delight from the kitchens of my crazy German family from Nova Scotia. Tried it once, hated it!!!! My aunt used to make Mince Meat with venison, used to love it till I found Bambi was in it. How about Pickled Herring, love that.

Grits, ah, right up there with drinking Draino. Corn soaked in lye, nummy!!

 

[cajunmommy]

For those of you looking, Baumer Foods of New Orleans sells a pepper vinegar. You can purchase it via their website @ baumerfoods.com (go to the products button at the end of the page & click on green peppers). This is the same company that is known for their Crystal Brand Hot Sauce (similar to Tabasco).

Yum- I love the homemade stuff atop gumbo, shrimp stew, smothered okra!!! Is it time for lunch yet???

 

[GoofItUp]

cajunmommy - Since the subject is food and I see your counter, have some beignets for me at Cafe du Monde while in the Big Easy! We're having our crawfish boil next month (DH's family owns a rice/crawfish farm) which is always a huge hit up here as we can't get fresh crawfish here!

GAIL HAYDEN - are you telling me you can't get sausage gravy and biscuits up there? Thank goodness I live where I do! How exactly do you eat your biscuits???