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July 11, 2005
Bacon, Oh My!
My friend Cub sent me a care package from Pierz Minnesota -- home of Thielen's Meat Market. A few years back he had heard of a butcher that is reputed to make the worlds best bacon, so two years back he had the opportunity to have his dad send us a pound, and we weren't disappointed. Recently, he went back for a visit and sent out another pound, and a surprise -- smoked pork chops.
Our menu from the weekend:
Sunday Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs. A simple and wonderful combination with buttered baguette and a half a plum and a fresh fig.
Lunch: BLT: toasted wheat, mayo, butter leaf lettuce and heirloom tomatoes, mmmmm.
Dinner: Smoked Pork Chops. scalloped potatoes, steamed broccoli.
My god, those chops are amazing. Moist, tender, smoky and salty. Just about as good as anything I've tasted it.
Notes from Cubby regarding Thielen's Meat:
...that bacon is just unbelievable. Shada's mouth (and mine too) just dropped when we walked into the little butcher shop in Pierz the first time, the smell is SOOO good -- imagine an entire (small) store that smells like that bacon and pork chop/meat smell, wow. And those pork chops, well, they sort of speak for themselves. We tried two new york strip steaks from there too, did those on the barbeque at the cabin -- it was like no beef i've ever had in CA, there's something to be said for corn fed cows. Thielen's meats has been around for a really long time, family owned and really old school, they pride themselves on using local small farm beef, chicken and hogs, and it really seems to show, they do quite an amazing job.
Posted by tdotjay at July 11, 2005 07:34 PM
