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Default What do you cook when you have no $

Janet Wilder wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
>> Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> cshenk wrote:
>>>> "Billy" wrote
>>>>
>>>>> "cshenk" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> the cheapest meat in Sasebo
>>>>>> Japan.
>>>>> How many on RFC live there? Just an East Tennessee native and our
>>>>> cheapest meat might be possum.
>>>>
>>>> Grin, you'd be suprised! One of the others said cheap dish used
>>>> lamb. Not likely to have been living in the USA. This is a global
>>>> community, not all are USA (or Canada) folks. Another cheap meat in
>>>> Japan was shrimp.
>>>
>>> I was the one who used one lamb shank. Lamb shank at that time (early
>>> 1980's) was cheap meat. I was living in New Jersey, which, I believe
>>> was still part of the US at the time <vbg>
>>>
>>>

>> Ah yes, I also like lamb riblets--which I can't even find. Maybe I
>> can get them from someone at a farmer's market. I have this
>> Indonesian recipe...
>>

>
> They sell breast of lamb here for a very reasonable price. It must
> figure into a Mexican or Border dish that I don't know about. It looks
> very fatty, though.
>

Hmmm. That might be a clue.... Thanks!

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Jean B.