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Bone marrow is delicious but it's definitely an off-putting texture for a lot of people. I love it spooned out on bread...it's like gelatinous butter only with more kick.

I do find it amazing to see a lot of survivalist food end up on high-price-tag menus. Not sure how I feel about handing someone $70 for something I could get from my butcher for almost nothing and make on my BBQ! The cost must be the 11 secret marrow herbs and spices! ;)
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I've seen marrow served in restaurants like you said, Polar -- bone split in half lengthwise and roasted/toasted/broiled then eaten along with... bread, or salad greens, or whatever else you want to put with it.  My ex used to order it when it was available.  It's served as an appetizer dish. It's probably really healthy for you so if you can find a way to make it tasty and appealing, I'd say eat it up. I also don't plan on eating any myself, haha.
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I wouldn't say "usually", but what I last did with bone marrow was spit it out in panic in the middle of a five star dining room on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

I'd thought it was a cute mini heart-shaped coeur à la crème garnishing my filet mignon and tucked in happily. I was not expecting a forkful of what I can only describe as greasy snot.

(It might be much nicer properly toasted. Not aiming to find out, though).
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I agree with the OP. This forum has been awful the last few days just like it was 4 years ago. I can't respond to some of the posts because the problems are so bad. Makes me feel depressed just reading them.

So, I'm making dinner right now. A big pot of beef soup in the pressure cooker, with all the different vegetables I have in the fridge.

The beef came with the bones and bone marrow. I remove the marrow because it is too much fat. The new food trend at restaurants around here is to cut the bones in half exposing the marrow and roast the bone marrow with seasoning then serve with bread. Anyone tried it? What do you usually do with bone marrow?
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Tuesday I stopped at the Italian store and had a veggie frittata! So good. Wednesday is pizza day! I'm excited to taste something different.
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One last straw,, It was awesome!! I will be making it again!
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Becky- Strawberry pretzel salad? Sounds interesting, how does that work?

I had a salad, beans, cottage cheese with banana, DH had pork chops, rice/gravy. beans and cornbread. Mom had veggie sandwich, cheetos, and pumpkin muffin
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first semi real dinner in 10-days after gum graft
baked potato with carrots and squash - it was heavenly
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Chili!
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That meatloaf sounds amazing, let me know how it turned out Pam!

As for me 1st dinner [for dad] was leftover baked rainbow trout, rice, asparagus, and sliced tomato.

2nd dinner when mom gets home is...well who knows but it'll be tasty!
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Well I have lost a few lbs, and in a desire to keep this going ( at least until another trip to the Amish market and those dang 1/2 lb doughnuts...) I am making a recipe from the back of a book I just read. The Laura Childs series about the Tea Shoppe.. read them,, they are nice light mysteries. It is Greek Meatloaf. Turkey, spinach and some low fat Feta cheese crumbles. Hope it's good . We are fans of "regular" meatloaf... so this is a big switch up!
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That pastry sounds good Send!

Dinner is roasted turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli and rice casserole. Strawberry pretzel salad.
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Having a sweet, rich pastry, called Chocolate Brooklyn Babka.
It is very good.
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We finally have snow melting! Grilled steaks and corn on the cob, baked potatoes, green salad.
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A friend dropped by with groceries and included a pork loin roast, added veggies and it is making the house smell sooooo God! Wil steam some honey crisp apple slices and ouila!
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I am craving pizza, think that is what I'm gonna have, yup.
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Thanks Sue. I just happen to have a lot of banana plants growing in my backyard. I don't have to buy, but it is a pain to wash those huge leaves.
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Pbear,
Try wrapping your tamales in banana leaves. Oh gosh, much better flavor than dried corn husks. Central and Southern Mexico is where they are popular.

Up here I've bought the banana leaves frozen. If your local supermarket doesn't carry them, try a Mexican or Asian store.

I've made tamales but my masa always breaks. I'll have to check to see if I got masa for tamales. It makes a difference they tell me.
Even better the next day.

We just visited Mom and are stopping for Japanese food. 😋
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A couple of nice pieces of cod sauteed in a little butter. Brussels sprouts for a veggie and some berries for dessert.

I overindulged in dark chocolate truffle cashew ice cream earlier. I won't do that again in a hurry - a little too rich. The aged gut can't handle it. But it was good!!!!
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Helping youth group at church with their supper for senior citizens. I’ve got 8 dozen cloverleaf roles made and a gallon of fruit ambrosia. Our dinner is in the crock pot. Chili for supper.
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I had a copy of White Trash Cooking,,, I recall the pictures were great too! Have no idea where it is now...LOL
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Ms. Madge, I loved that show. Occasionally we still get an old episode on our local PBS.

I have a copy of White Trash Cooking. But, don't really need the cookbook. I grew up in WV and all of my family cooked southern country style.

We're having big dinner this evening. All of the April birthdays. I've been baking all morning.
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I have the book!

Clarissa Dickson-Wright (blonde) is still very much with us and hilarious*!!!; but Jennifer Patterson (dark, looks like the wicked witch of the West and whom I absolutely adored for reasons I'll explain) sadly died some years ago.

JP used to be on the radio for years before she teamed up with the other "fat lady". At first I thought "good heavens, is this woman drunk?" but she wasn't, she just had that strained, deliberate Received Pronunciation voice. I fell in love with her when she deftly and gently - almost accidentally - assassinated Delia Smith, just in passing. It was a cookery-themed panel game, the teams had to assemble imaginary dishes from an imaginary (and highly improbable) box of groceries, and on her turn she concluded...

"... and then you can Doo A Deeeelia, and pop the little currants on the top."

* Oh sh*t! I was just checking the spelling and no! - C D-W died in 2014!!! Oh woe!

In my defence, that was peak caregiving stress and quite honestly I'm not sure I'd have noticed if I'd died myself.
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Anyone remember the BBC show about 20 years ago - two fat ladies?
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I love tamales
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Polar-so I use about 1/2 lb of cayenne peppers or for an extra kick mix it with some scotch bonnets. You can use any hot pepper you like. I use fresh, but I think you can use dried.
-rinse them well with cold water and drain them.
-Next, put them in a saucepan and add water, just enough barely cover them. Bring them to a boil and then lower heat and cover them and let them simmer about 20 minutes.(About halfway through make sure to turn your peppers so all sides get soft.) Drain them and set aside to cool. Divide in half.
-In a blender put about 3 cups of water and one half of the peppers, 3 Tb of flour, 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp salt.Blend til smooth.
-put through a sieve to remove skins and seeds,
-repeat same process with the other half of peppers and there you go.
You can add this in your tamales before you cook them and/or put it on them when eaten.

Hope this helps and I hope I have explained it well. Its very good.
Tune in tomorrow for tomato bread and/or tomato pie. :)
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smeshque - thanks for sharing the tamale recipe. I've copied and saved it. Would also love to have the red chili sauce if you don't mind.

As for your invite to come over - that's awfully nice of you, but I don't think I live anywhere close to your place. And I would have to hire a helper to look after my mom while I'm gone and that would cost many many tamales. Haha.
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Susan- sounds sort of like my Moms Wilted Salad.

Becky- Congrats on being official

Pam- tell hubby to smoke some trout- quite delicious

Polar- I am going to have to try your recipe, thank you for sharing.
So basically for plain tamales not hot-
put your meat *roast or shoulder)in a crockpot and slow cook, hopefully getting a lot of juice of it that you will use.
When meat is done shred it and set juice aside
I use masa herina, 2 cups of masa , ½ cup of lard, dash of salt, and enough chili powder to taste, and to make the dough a little pink. Add broth a little at a time and sometimes as you go on you can add more broth to keep the masa from drying out. (I use a mixer to whip it all together, it seems that its better when the masa and lard are kinda light and fluffy)You can check your masa by dropping a little in cold water and if it floats your golden.
Add a little juice to your meat, not so much to be wet, but a little moist.
You would have already soaked your corn husks for about 30 min. and tear some to make ties.
So you put about 1/4 c of masa on husks and then roughly 2 Tb of meat. (You can choose to make them bigger, my Mom always made huge, I like a lot of meat she'd say")
Roll them up and tie and steam them about
1 1/2 hours.
Now if you like them hot, I make a red chilli sauce(can give you the recipe if you want also)
This is for meat, I also do a bean and rice for myself. But mostly people are pork fans.
Hope it makes since if not let me know if I can be of more assistance. And if it doesnt work out, you can come by and I will teach you. :)
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Oh Lordie, heart attack heaven, but sounds so good. 
You must be from the South. Ever seen the cookbook White Trash Cookin'? Anything's good in bacon grease.
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Polarbear - it's pretty awesome stuff, and SOOO easy.

Cook up a package of bacon, cut up small.
Remove the cooked bacon, leaving the bacon grease in the pan.
Dump in a package of pre-shredded cole slaw mix, or shred one head cabbage.
Add 1 tsp each of garlic and onion powders, as well as 1/2 cup chopped onion or 3 tbsp dried minced onion.
Cook cabbage until wilted down, stirring frequently.
Toss bacon back in and cook another 5-10 minutes.
Serve immediately.
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