Claire
Master Chef
Ever have one of those weird feelings? You know you experienced something, and people think you're crazy?
Well, about 5 years ago, give or take, I walked into my grocery store and saw something I'd never seen before (or since). A pork chuck roast. Huh? I bought it out of curiousity. Now beef chuck is one of my favorite cuts for anything low and slow, and I was looking for something to use with my Cousin Joanna's New Mexico Green Chili Stew. It was SO tender and delicious that when my neighbor ate it, he ran to the store and bought up the rest of them for similar types of dishes.
You have to understand that we live in a small town, and at the time, that grocery store was the only game in town, so to speak.
Several years have passed, and I never saw such a thing again. I make the recipe once a year using pork butt as I did before and since.
I got curious, though. The butchers at this store are the same guys who've been there since I moved here. So I stopped to chat and neither of them remember ever hearing of a pork chuck roast/steak.
So I asked, OK, which part on a cow that would be chuck, on a pig, what would it be? They came up with, as I suspected, the butt. For some reason, someone who cut the meat cut it differently that one time.
Well, I will buy some pork butt, and will take the poblanos and cow horns I grew and my husband roasted, and the rest of the ingredients, and will use a pork butt for the stew I make this year. But it is funny ... that one pork chuck roast (actually, I bought two of them, and my neighbor bought the rest, and they were never seen again!)
Well, about 5 years ago, give or take, I walked into my grocery store and saw something I'd never seen before (or since). A pork chuck roast. Huh? I bought it out of curiousity. Now beef chuck is one of my favorite cuts for anything low and slow, and I was looking for something to use with my Cousin Joanna's New Mexico Green Chili Stew. It was SO tender and delicious that when my neighbor ate it, he ran to the store and bought up the rest of them for similar types of dishes.
You have to understand that we live in a small town, and at the time, that grocery store was the only game in town, so to speak.
Several years have passed, and I never saw such a thing again. I make the recipe once a year using pork butt as I did before and since.
I got curious, though. The butchers at this store are the same guys who've been there since I moved here. So I stopped to chat and neither of them remember ever hearing of a pork chuck roast/steak.
So I asked, OK, which part on a cow that would be chuck, on a pig, what would it be? They came up with, as I suspected, the butt. For some reason, someone who cut the meat cut it differently that one time.
Well, I will buy some pork butt, and will take the poblanos and cow horns I grew and my husband roasted, and the rest of the ingredients, and will use a pork butt for the stew I make this year. But it is funny ... that one pork chuck roast (actually, I bought two of them, and my neighbor bought the rest, and they were never seen again!)