Really, how can you go your whole life and not want to try head cheese, desperately? Well, for me, today was the day. Over the weekend, we went to the new artisinal butcher shop at Barred Owl and go several very cool items. The coolest, of course, was headcheese. From Wikipedia, "Head cheese or brawn is a cold cut that originated in Europe. A version pickled with vinegar is known as souse. Head cheese is not a dairy cheese, but a terrine or meat jelly made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig, or less commonly a sheep or cow, and often set in aspic."
Tonight, as a snack, I trued a slice of head cheese with a little dijon mustard, a common accompaniment. Honestly? Two bites was enough.
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