Beef shanks cover everything I need for diet meat. They are high in protein, the texture is amazing and, if you don’t eat the marrow (save it for after the diet), have a relatively low calorie count (on average, 35 calories per ounce, raw). For those of you playing at home the marrow is 222.8 calories per ounce of delicious, slithery goodness.
A lot of my recipes come about from eating out. Either I’ll have a really good meal and want to make it for myself, tweaking it a bit or I will have a really shitty meal that disappoints me so badly that I must go home and make my own take on it, accentuating what I really thought was missing in the restaurant version. The latter one of those times.
