Hervé wrote:
I always received a nice piece of sausage
Herve, I'm not that intimate with my butcher. But there's a new lady at this place I go to get sandwich meat that won't let me try samples anymore...
Yes, real mesquite wood. Old limbs on a mesquite dry out really fast and make great fire wood. Throw in some chips from a larger limb and it smokes well. Mesquites create a lot of sweet sap naturally and spread their seedlings through these things that look like hard cased green beans. In south Texas (where I grew up), before the area had been explored by spaniards, the landscape was wide open plains (or grass land) with a mesquite tree scattered here and there. Cattle ranchers discovered the potential and soon the cattle, like they do, discovered a sweet tooth for the sweet mesquite beans hanging just their height to eat. Cows, shitting all over the place, quickly multiplied the mesquite population into troves of forests. As time went on, ranchers discovered the bountiful supply of firewood added a nice flavor to their meat and was steadily becoming more available. By this time, several generations of cattle had been nurturing themselves with mesquite beans and sap. This small alteration in diet changed their muscle tissue making the meat more tender.
The cows did themselves in, basically.
but back on topic. cool photos.
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