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Stewroids Like A Muhfucka
It’s rare that I have an issue titling a post, as the title usually pops out of my fingers simultaneously with the idea for the article. The title for this post eluded me, however, as if I were an obese, mustachoied, unwashed child molester, rocking a turgid 4″ hard on, chasing the last remaining child through a McDonald’s Playland with a leaky bag of opiate laced candy with ten minutes left before the end of the world. This is odd, because hilarity usually comes fairly easy to me, and I know exactly what it is this article is to be, and yet the best I can come up with is “Holy Shit, Westerners Are All Retarded”, because holy shit, Western lifters are fucking retarded.
Blinded by an endless spate of fad diets, immersed in endless debates about nutrition and buried in mounds of research conducted by people who have no understanding of weightlifting outside of theory, and in the US in particular without a traditional ethnic diet, we’re left standing on a desert island with a vile protein shake in hand, staring wistfully across a small strait filled with piranhas and sharks at a party island replete with lifters pushing weights of which we can only dream, drunk out of their skulls, and eating delicious foods. For the kids on message boards with sub 315 squats, the only answer is “DRUGS, LOTS OF DRUGS”, because they’re giant retarded vaginas with less understanding of what it takes to get strong than my 75 year old ice cream-obsessed, white collar father, who could easily outlift 85% of message board posters simply because he’s a fucking man with full grown testicles and a modicum of personal pride.
The missing element in English speaking countries isn’t drugs, and though it’s partially related to work ethic, that’s not it either. Instead, the missing element is the paucity of giant iron kettles constantly filled with stews that are consumed in massive quantities by men who could not fit into their girlfriends’ jeans.
That’s right- we are not eating enough stew. That is the problem, and this is not a joke.
David Rigert- powered by a hatred of capitalism and copious amounts of borscht.
For those of you with short attention spans, let’s run down a quick list of people who traditionally eat stew and their concomitant skill at strength sports:
- Russians and Ukranians. They eat stew by the bucketful, and they probably just recycle their trophies and medals in weightlifting at this point because they’ve got nowhere to store the fucking things.
- Bulgarians. Bulgarians have, per capita, more trophies in Olympic weightlifting than any other country in history, in spite of the fact that they live in a tiny, landlocked, dour, cold, poor country whose only traditional export is humongous mustaches. Like their former Eastern bloc comrades, they’re slurping down wheelbarrows full of stews called moussaka and kavarma 24/7/365.
- Iranians. Persian traditional cuisine is pretty much just kebebs and stew (khoresht) with a variety of breads and rice. For a small country, they have a disproportionately massive number of Olympic medals in weightlifting and wrestling, and have an incredibly long and rich history of strongman and wrestling training called varzesh e bastani that literally could not have existed in a place wherein the diet wasn’t centered around their traditional fare. Unlike the Indians, they never gave up on a meat-heavy diet, so they’ve been able to keep dominating strength sports while the Indians have languished in estrogen-fueled vegetarian weakness.
- Turks. Most of the meals cooked in the home start with meat-rich soup followed by thick stews made with beans and minced meat. If you’re unaware, the Turks always do well in Olympic weightlifting, and have wiped the mats with foreign wrestlers since the dawn of man.
- Hungarians. Though you don’t think of Hungary when you think of strength sports, Hungary has 20 medals in weightlifting and a shitload in wrestling, in spite of the fact that they have fewer people in their country than live in Paris. Their secret? Goulash by the bucket.
- Sumo Wrestlers. All those motherfuckers do is eat stew and drink beer when they’re not training, and they average 412 lbs at 6’2″. Yes, they’re fat, but science says “so what?”, because sumo wrestlers carry more lean body mass than bodybuilders (Kondo). The average sumo carries only 26% bodyfat, which means that that in contest shape they’d be stepping onto the bodybuilding stage at 307.8 lbs.
- Icelanders. Iceland has long been renown for its strongmen, all of whom credit their disgusting fish stew as being the secret of their success.
- Chinese. Though neither soup nor stew is a mainstay of the traditional Chinese diet, Chinese weightlifters eat loads a heavy soup made of chicken and pork ribs, and they’re working over the lighter weight classes in Oly lifting like they’re mini Mike Tysons hanging beatings on Robin Givens lookalikes.
I realize that due to the fact that no renown author has written at length about the utility of stew, my contention here is likely being viewed with no small amount of skepticism. No bodybuilder has ever touted the benefits of stew, and it’s never been said that any phenomenal American athlete credited stew with their success. As such, stew could not possible be in vogue, because nowhere are people more lemming-like than in Western strength sports. As such, my theory begs more investigation. Prepare yourselves for a fact dump that makes your typical deuce dropping in German scat porn seem positively reserved by comparison.
Stewed foods are probably as old as pottery, likely due to the fact that stewing is a very simple way to cook a wide variety of foods, and is perhaps the best method of retaining as much nutrition in the cooked foods as possible. The Scythians, a tribe of man-eating, death dealing superhumans who dominated the Russian steppes for centuries were huge fans of stewing, and would stew their food whenever they weren’t sewing their enemies’ scalps into horse blankets and capes. As ingenious as they were pants-shittingly brutal, the Scythians were known to cook their food by “put[ting] the flesh into an animal’s paunch, mix[ing] water with it, and boil[ it like that over the bone fire. The bones burn very well, and the paunch easily contains all the meat once it has been stripped off. In this way an ox, or any other sacrificial beast, is ingeniously made to boil itself.” (Wiki) Ever fans of stewing, one neighboring tribe to the Scythians known as the Issedones would walk their elderly men right into a crock pot and cook them up, then gild their skullcaps and use them as drinking vessels. Motherfuckers back in the day knew how to throw a fucking party.
The reasons behind stewing are simple:
- none of the nutrients generally lost in drippings from roasting or in the water from boiling are discarded- instead, they’re either cooked right back into the meat or remain intact in the broth.
- meat loses less weight by being stewed than if cooked by any other method.
- stewing denatures protein, making it far more digestible (hydrolyzed whey is denatured, for instance)
- for those of us who view vegetables as a necessary but horrible evil, you end up eating far more of them in stews than you would otherwise.
- stews can be easily kept hot and reheated.
- acrylamides (cancer-causing agents in starchy foods) are not formed in stewing.
As Ori Hofmekler states, stew is the balls. “History has taught us how to best prepare beef, fish, and fowl. Ancient Romans cooked protein foods in broth. They often mixed fish or meat with veggies, grans and beans all together in one pot.
The popular practice today of barbecuing or grilling meat, which caramelizes or burns its surface, denatures the protein and creates toxins that are widely believed to be carcinogenic”(Hofmekler 73). While Ori might not understand that denaturing protein is often actually a good thing, he has a point- there is a reason the greatest military of the ancient world cooked the way they did- it worked, and it provided the army with the best nutrition possible to ensure victory on the battlefield.
Beyond the above list, there is one other reason that you should be eating a wheelbarrow full of stew daily- history has shown that the biggest and strongest people on Earth eat stew with more alacrity than a dog shows when drinking from the toilet. Stew isn’t just food- it’s stew-roids. Take, for instance, the example of Icelandic strongmen. These gigantic motherfuckers buck the trend of small bodies leading to long life, as the Icelanders are second only to the Japanese in terms of longevity, and are second in the world for males under the age of twenty. Their secret? A stew called kjotsupafor- a traditional lamb soup made of fatty lamb, rutabaga, onion, carrot, celery, cabbage, leeks, and a fistful of rice. Icelandic strongmen credit this stew single-handedly with their size and strength, and claim that this was the stew that made their Viking ancestors the skull-smashing, cervix-displacing, monastery-burning behemoths they were. Currently, Icelandic strongmen eat Kjötsúpa before, during, and after training, and up to six times per day to fuel their training (Bourdain). If you’re curious how it’s made, here’s a recipe:
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. finely chopped garlic
3 pounds lamb, on the bone (thick chops or shoulder … whatever is cheapest!)
1 medium onion, sliced
1/3 cup brown rice (traditionalists use rolled oats as an alternative)
6 cups water
1/2 tsp. dried thyme
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1/2 cabbage, roughly chopped
3 carrots, diced into 1/2″ pieces
1/2 rutabaga, uniformly diced
1 cup cauliflower florets (optional)
4 potatoes, scrubbed well and diced into uniform 1/2″ pieces (see alternative note below)
In a large pot or dutch oven, briefly sauté the garlic in the olive oil for 1-2 minutes over medium heat (do not brown). Add the lamb pieces and brown on all sides. Add the sliced onion to the pot and sauté very lightly (about 1 minute), then pour in the brown rice and water. Raise heat to high, bringing the soup to a low boil; allow to boil for 5 minutes, skimming away the froth as it rises.
Reduce heat to medium, stir in dried thyme and oregano, cover pot, and cook for 40 minutes.
Add cabbage, carrots, rutabaga, cauliflower (if using), and diced potatoes. Cook, covered, for an additional 20 minutes, or until vegetables are fork-tender.
Remove meat and bones from pot, chop meat coarsely, then return. Warm for an additional 5 minutes. (Alternatively, some Icelanders will remove the lamb and potatoes from the pot and serve these on a plate, separately from the soup. If presenting the meal this way, chop the potatoes into larger, 1″ chunks).
Yield: 6-8 servings of kjötsúpa.
One bowl of kjötsúpa yields the following nutrition:
Perhaps Iceland isn’t your thing- you hate vikings, prefer samurai, and are the one fucking asshole on Earth who thinks Deadliest Warrior got it right when they stated a viking would lose 522 out of 1000 fights to a samurai. Let’s look past the fact that your parents hate you and want you out of their basement, you were the smelly, paste-eating kid in school, and you likely have never been in a fistfight, yet have a black belt in some kind of useless karate. We can get past that. Really. Actually, we can’t, and I hope someone sets you on fire. Despite that fact, you should still be eating stew more often than a 1920’s cartoon hobo, because that’s just about all sumo wrestlers ever eat, and if you’ve already forgotten, scientists have declared that sumo wrestlers carry the most lean body mass of any humans on Earth, so it’s not as though they’re simply giant babies tottering around in diapers.
The stew, of which sumo wrestlers eat prodigious amounts, is called chankonabe, and is comprised of tossed sliced tofu, carrots, cabbages, leeks, potatoes, lotus roots, daikon radishes, shiitake mushrooms, and giant burdock in chicken broth. they wash all that down with massive amounts of beer and saki, then take a nap to allow the massive meal to digest. Chanko is considered a “sort of legal steroid” in Japan- “Of all the performance enhancers used in sports, it’s perhaps the oldest and most venerated. Chanko dates to at least the late 19th century, when short-order cooks from Niigata prefecture fixed meals for wrestlers. The word ‘chan’ (regional dialect for “father”) was conflated with ‘nabe,’ the name for one-pot meals often served at the table. ‘It’s the main course of a sumo meal,’ says Konishiki. ‘All the sumo wrestlers have to eat it, whether they like it or not’” (Lidz). Here’s how chankonabe is made in Tokyo’s Tomoegata:
Chanko-Nabe (Tachiyama’s Beef and Chicken Hot Pot)
Ingredients (Serves 4)
3 lbs. chicken bones
1 2.8-oz. package abura-age (deep-fried tofu), cut into large pieces
1 clove garlic, peeled
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp. mirin (sweet rice wine)
Salt
1 medium waxy potato, peeled, quartered lengthwise, sliced crosswise, and blanched
2″ piece daikon, peeled, quartered lengthwise, sliced crosswise, and blanched
1 small carrot, trimmed, peeled, sliced on the bias, and blanched
1 leek, white part only, trimmed, washed, and sliced on the bias
1/4 head napa cabbage, cored and cut into large pieces
4 shiitake mushrooms, stemmed
4 oz. shimeji mushrooms. trimmed and separated
4 oz. fresh burdock root, trimmed, peeled, and shaved into long thin strips
10 oz. yaki-dofu (grilled tofu), halved lengthwise and cut into 1/2″-thick pieces
1/2lb. boneless chicken thighs. cut into thin strips
1/2 bunch chrysanthemum greens, trimmed
1/2 lb. very thinly sliced prime rib eye of beef
1 lb. udon noodles
Bring a medium pot of water to a boil over high heat. Put chicken bones and fried tofu into 2 separate colanders set in sink and pour two-thirds of the boiling water over the bones to rinse off any impurities and the remaining boiling water over the tofu to rinse off excess oil. Transfer bones to the medium pot and set tofu aside to drain.
Add garlic and 14 cups cold water to pot with bones and bring to a boil over high heat, skimming any foam that rises to the surface. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until broth has reduced by one-third, about 21/2 hours. Strain broth into a clean, wide medium pot, discarding solids, and skim off fat.
At the table, set pot on a portable stove in center of table, add soy sauce and mirin, season to taste with salt, and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Add about one-third of the potatoes, daikon, carrots, leeks, cabbage, mushrooms, burdock, grilled tofu. chicken, fried tofu, and chrysanthemum greens to simmering broth.
Cook until vegetables begin to soften and chicken is just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Add about one-third of the beef.
Simmer until just cooked through, about 1 minute.
Once all the vegetables, tofu, chicken, greens, and beef have been eaten, use a small sieve to pick out scraps. Bring remaining broth in pot back to a simmer, add noodles, and simmer until cooked through, 6-8 minutes. Serve in individual bowls.
One serving of Chankonabe yields the following nutritional awesome:
As though the above information weren’t compelling enough, lifters at David Rigert’s training camp eat copious amounts of veal broth filled with boiled meat and potatoes, Glenn Pendlay strongly recommends that lifters eat stew as a regular part of their diet, and the Chinese Olympic weightlifting team eats chicken and pork rib soup as a staple of their diets. Essentially, everyone BUT powerlifters in the Western world are eating stew all the live long day, to their great benefit. This is a tragedy for us Westerners, but this tragedy can be averted… with the liberal use of a crock pot and a willingness to depart from the norm. To give you an idea of what it is you’re missing out on, here is a bit of the nutritional information for some of the best choices for stew:
Beef Goulash nutrition:
Borscht nutrition:
Khoresht nutrition:
Beef Chili nutrition:
As you can see, stew is pretty much the balls if you’re looking for a shitload of calories and a shitload of protein. Properly done, stew can obviate the need for a multivitamin, keep you full, and fill you with the power of all of your viking ancestors currently drinking in Valhalla and awaiting your arrival. For those of you who are still in the “get ripped” phase and not in the “get huge motherfucker” phase of life, stew might not be the best choice. For anyone who’s looking to the coming winter months with a twinkle in their eye and an idea about packing on some serious mass and throwing around weights that would seem positively fantastical to the 150 lb. nutritional gurus on the internet- time to start jacking some stew-roids so you can leave the world of bitch mode behind.
Viking up, motherfuckers.
Sources:
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations – Iceland (Hello Darkness, My Old Friend). Arc Tv. 30 Nov 2009. Web. 6 Aug 2013. http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/anthony_bourdain__no_reservations-(iceland_(hello_darkness,_my_old_friend))/6630/TRAVP/Monday_November_30_2009/131494/
AP. Japan Sumo Association to crack down on obesity. Dimensions Online. Web. 5 Aug 2013. http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/news/083958.htm
Chinese Weightlifters Eating in Korea. Youtube. 25 Nov 2009. Web. 6 Aug 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uYmxb-A4Ag
Diehl, Kari. Kjötsúpa, Icelandic Lamb Soup. Web. 6 Aug 2013. http://scandinavianfood.about.com/od/souprecipes/r/kjotsupa.htm
Hofmekler, Ori. Warrior Diet. St. Paul: Dragon Door, 2003.
Kadokura, Tania. Sumo Stew. Saveur Magazine. Nov 2002. Web. 7 Aug 2013. http://www.banzuke.com/chanko-nabe/
Klokov Discusses Diet. Forum Post. 12 Aug 2011. Web. 6 Aug 2013. http://pendlayforum.com/showthread.php?t=3610
Kondo M, Abe T, Ikegawa S, Kawakami Y, Fukunaga T. Upper limit of fat-free mass in humans: A study on Japanese Sumo wrestlers. Am J Hum Bio. 1994. 5(6) 613–618.
Lidz, Franz. From Soup to Guts. Slate. 30 Nov 2004. Web. 4 Aug 2013. http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/left_field/2004/11/from_soup_to_guts.html
Pendlay, Glenn. Weightlifter’s Kitchen w/ Glenn Pendlay – Crock Pot Stew. Youtube. 24 Feb 2013. Web. 6 Aug 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD_V3urp1eg
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71 responses to “Stewroids Like A Muhfucka”
Great research, definitely haven't been eating enough stew
I can find a way to make some of these more APD-friendly. Fucking phenomenal article, and though you had a hard time with it, excellent title as well!
I know you hate french Canadians, but we have our own kind of stew : Meatball Stew. Check it out, it's another good one : http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/homemade-meatball-and-vegetable-stew-43874314
I just like giving you guys shit.
That's why we love you and we hate you <3 (no homo, unless it's gay for pay)
Just C&P fans? Everyone hates French Canadians!
If they could speak any language well or contribute anything other than sloth and hate to the world at large, I suppose that might change.
Don't forget about driving with modicum of good sense (especially winter time), stop the eye pollution they create by wearing speedos on the beaches of the Eastern USA, quit threatening to secede from Canada, and not treat Americans like a plague of Locusts when we go to Montreal.
Though you may consider them no better than French Canadians, but don't forget the Cajuns (and Creoles) who have the one true American authentic stew, and the best fucking tasting: Gumbo
But it's clear, with Louisiana & Mississippi as examples, that no amount of stew can make up for sitting on your ass all day while downing gallons of sweet tea.
Isn't pretty much every successful strength coach to come out of Canada French?
Nice to see Americans are still ignorant pieces of shit!
great article, I think your absolutely batshit, but let's be honest, thats why we all read your blog.
That's interesting. What role do you think offal plays? I was thinking of haggis, which is obviously not a stew but has similarly high protein content and is made almost entirely from organs.
Also, more tangentially, what do you think of raw or almost raw meat? It always made me feel good.
Haggis is awesome, before I tried it I, quite reasonably, assumed it would taste of anus but it's actually delicious. Black pudding too, though I'm sure some of our American pals will have all their worst fears about British food confirmed when they google that ha ha.
I've been doing my research about offal. From what I found, we're screwing up by relegating it to dog food. Generally speaking, offal is higher in protein and, most notably, extremely high in Micronutrients. This is why many cultures can eat almost no vegetables and not suffer from diseases associated from them being absent from the diet.
Expurts try to scare people away from lots of offal in the reading I've done by pulling out the high cholesterol card. Of course if you believe that, I'm guessing that many of us will tell you about how .44 mag bullets are cholesterol free.
If you want to try an organ meat that is very similar to muscle meat, then start with beef heart. It's got a similar, but firmer, texture to muscle meat. Just don't cook it past medium. It's lean and it'll get tough as fuck.
Anthony Cordain just came reading your response.
Black pudding is pretty good as well. So are red wings, uncooked.
Now THAT was awesome.
My favorite right now is spaghetti, but I make it at about 5 lbs meat to 1 lb spaghetti. Get 3-4 lbs of ground beef, a half pound each of italian sausage, pepperoni, and deer sausage if you have it, then throw in a pack of bacon. Couple cans of sauce and tomatoes, onions, some bell peppers, ton of garlic, whatever spices you like, and you've got something to heat up whenever you're hungry for a week or so. It's pretty fatty but easy enough to lean out if you want.
Look at you going all Paula Deen on us.
This askes for a CNP cookbook! Fuck Jamie Oliver and the modern society with their smoothies, green tea and shakes.
Turkish pehlivans eat pots of lamb stews, beans, carrots and tomato with thick yoghurt as a side dish. Those motherfuckers never seem to age and press like a monster. I saw those guys clean 440 pounds, squat 660 pounds and they do most of their lifts during the off season. This guy wasn't even a champ, he ended up being thirth in the competition.
There will definitely be a future post about Turks.
Can't wait for that man, great!
Fucking awesome article. Greetings from the UK home of shit food and Weather. I'm off to clean my monacle now and have a Gin and Tonic.
Nah. Only shit weather. The food is ok as long as it's foreign 🙂
Bro train steak and kidney pie, shepherds pie and Lancashire hotpot all day, circuit style. Fuck mushy peas though.
Mushy peas can indeed fuck off, circuit of pies and hotpot is an awesome idea. Throw a curry and a kebab for the circuit as well.
buy big crock pot. (not crack pot) make stew. this is pretty simple and if you buy the cheap cuts of meat (the chest of the cow forexample) you can slow cook it and get so much taste out of it. make a huge pot.
put it in bags in the sizes you want and now you have an easy to rehead meals. full of nutrition.
done this for some time when im working too much. and its not so hard to make a good tasty soup if you're not a complete retard in a kitchen
Exactly.
I hope I didn't miss something but it looks like the steps in the Chankonabe are incomplete. It stops after "transfer bones to medium pot and set tofu aside to drain".
Still, this is a great post. I love making stew during cold months; maybe bring it back even in the summer now. As an aside, when the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup title a few years ago, the local paper did a story on how the mother of our great Russo, Evgeni Malkin, made him borscht everyday. He consumed a ton of it. Guess who won the MVP trophy that year.
My bad- that was a good catch. I've got it in there now.
I added a link to the article in which I found it in the sources as well.
Interesting article, might be time to make of round of Berardi's "Dr Johns Chili" and wolf that bitch down.
On a side note we are all awaiting your podcast, pics or not. I think the pics make it infinitely more intensive to load on mobile devices so personally I would rather you leave them off. There's plenty of porn on the internet if one wants to see it. If I'm in the minority than so be it, but that's this posters opinion.
Actually, the most popular form of stew in Bulgaria and neighboring countries is Gyuvetch. Behold the awesomeness:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90uve%C4%8D
Gyuvetch, or as I know, Güveç, rocks. In fact, every meat dish slow cooked with veggies is awesome.
Here's Glenn Pendlay showing us how to make stew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD_V3urp1eg
Lived in the west, was 64kgs… Moved to Ukraine 12 months ago; now 78kg… Fucking борщ is the best; especially when you chop up 400gr of steak and throw it in just before each meal.
To tolerate more veggies in stew, I throw them in the food processor, and simmer them in the stock. Adds the flavor without the mushiness of cooked vegetables.
I also do the same with beef liver and ground beef. Super chopped, mixed with ground beef, and seasoned with a ton of cumin and cayenne. I usually do 2# of each with a jar of salsa. Makes about 4 meals at about a pound each.
"I realize that due to the fact that no renown author has written at length about the utility of stew"
Never read John McCallum I see.
For the enlightenment of all concerned I shall add the following saliencies:
– Fuck vegetables, as other commentators have mentioned organ meats are a much better source of everything the body needs (with the notable exception of fiber). For the dummies: if you want to be a whole animal, eat the whole animal. Right now the anachronistic and totally insane Canadian food pyramid is being revised to accomodate the now Doritos fattened Inuit people of of the far north. Meat has replaced the base layer of grain and organ meats have replaced fruit and vegetables in accordance with the traditional Inuit diet of fresh, raw, still warm seal. These guys live in temperatures that most of you can't even imagine let alone hack and posses (in the case of traditionalists) better eyesight and cardiovascular health than virtually all the rest of the world. They even have their own version of strongman: the Inuit games.
– Further: bones. Eat them, or what's inside them anyway. Which leads me to…
– Blood pudding. Take it from a Viking – shit is good. Scots, Poles, Brits and Mongols (of whom I am related to all), despite their Jewishesque cheapness, world renowned stupidity, flabby baby-like appearance and hideousness got something right: eat blood. Why do you think Dracula was such a badass? Durr people, and, as some of you may actually be able to use shoes that aren't fastened with Velcro and could possibly think critically or perhaps even do some of your own research I'll omit the effects of blood protein and the link between bone marrow, immune function and muscular development (not the rag) so that you may feel like you've actually discovered something on your own (you haven't, but I'll indulge).
Zac your blog is hilarious!
Black pudding is always made from pork, it's not at all Jewish.
About bones, boiling them is a really good option as you can soften the whole thing enough to eat it completely.
There is far more than one variety of blood pudding, and they're not always made from pork.
Cheers zac and Dray, I will look into this.
I'm so hungry now.
Maybe you and Paul could try to have Glenn Pendlay in your podcast. He is fucking baddass and he's the one actually doing something useful for USA weightlifting.
Whoa what the fuck – didn't think I'd see a reference to burdock in a C&P thread. This root is revered for its strength and strengthening properties. During its growth if it encounters rock, burdock will grow right through it. Apparently nothing will grow in its vicinity. I can vouch for it. It gives good energy. Shitake as well is good for imparting energy and aggression. Soak dried shitake, boil it, let it simmer, add salt, drink it down. And fer crissakes do yourself a favor and get a cast iron Dutch oven. You can beat the shit out of it with these unholy concoctions and it'll only get better and more seasoned.
I can vouch for burdock as I dig it out of the field margins here at the farm and yes, add it to stew, but there is such thing as hyperbole. It does not typically split rocks. If things aren't growing right next to it, it's because its bigass leaves shaded them out, no other reason. Lots of shade-tolerant plants will grow right up next to burdock. The medicinal value of burdock, including its enhancement of strength and vitality, makes it pretty worthwhile. Sumo know what's up.
Clearly when Deadliest Warrior ran their Monte Carlo sims they didn't factor in the Viking possessing an Ulfberht in every instance.
There's an Ulfberht documentary on Netflix that was pretty badass. And, clearly they missed the awesomeness of that sword.
Yeah it's great. Great point made that Viking battle style was rarely blade on blade. It would greatly depend on a samurais ability to take the brunt of what would be huge strikes from the Viking.
I meant – Ulfberh+t.
The Indians aren't beaten down yet. Probably this is why
http://xtremeperformer.blogspot.in/2013/08/martial-program-for-strength-equipment.html
Jamie, this was perhaps one of your most excellent post. I have also just made stew and it was a delicious dish!
I used beef and seafood with some shiitake mushrooms and a variety of fresh herbs with tomatoes and garlic. I also had eggs with it inspired from sukiyaki.
Amazing article, but I see you forgot the fucking "kig ha farz" Breton, I don't think we can really consider them as French pussy…
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The drippings are my favorite part of the roast – they taste amazing and give an almost instantaneous mood-lifting effect. I'm not sure what causes this, maybe arachidonic acid or something?
Good article.
goulash for the win! greeting from slovakia
Босански лонац (eng. Bosnian pot). Enjoy 🙂
http://www.bearskitchen.com/bosanski_lonac.htm
Just when I thought you were about to stop being pussy about talking about gear, this is actually an article on world cuisine.
I hope you've learnt your leason then, because that will NEVER happen.
Jamie is this the best post I've read on your site.
PS – Make 2 crockpots of chili a week, and I find it's pretty decent even on a cut. Just got to scale back on the beans and add more processed veggies.
Was thinking of good beef stew, this encourages me to look for recipes.
Stews are great for hiding organ meats like liver and heart which are very nutritious but taste like ass to me. I cook the organ meats when making a large batch of beef stock. I then use a hand blender to mix it up. This stock serves as the base for my stews and chilis and you cant taste organ meats at all.
Yep, couldn't agree more. Nothing beats a big pot of stew, especially in the winter months, I like mine with loads of root veg such as Swede, parsnips, carrots and a tonne of onions.
Random question, has anyone tried those pure oxyen canisters to boost performance and aid recovery, if so do they actually work or is it just another marketing gimmick?
Thanks.
Are you crazy? Look at the map where Bulgaria. We have sea (Black sea) and the country is not cold. We have a big mustache and big dicks. Very tasty food and great athletes.
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