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Children Eating Horse Steak Seared / Rare

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Our children just love horse steaks rare. This morning we drove to Malabon to buy some 8 kilos of horse meat with horse fat and horse innards. We have to try them all. This is only our 2nd time to buy horse meat in the Malabon main wet market. We bought too much horse meat we actually broke our Styrofoam container. We had to buy 2 Styrofoam containers.

This time I bought from a 3rd butcher stall. We have to try different butchers to know. This stall is the bigger stall. They have more horse stuff here. I bought 1,500 pesos worth of horse this morning. They were nice the owner gave me some horse liver to try out. Tasted the raw horse liver on the spot, not bad. They had semi tenderloin, had it in 1 inch steaks. This is what the kids ate for a very late lunch at 3pm. Of course I ate fully raw horse meat steaks with no utensils this time. Horse meat tenderloin needs only bare teeth.

I took pictures of the 3 horse butcher stalls in the Malabon wet market. Look at those ribs, horse ribs. Look at the yellow belly fat. Seems I can only eat a little raw horse belly fat. Unlike raw beef back fat which I can consume in quite a good amount.

I also took pictures and a video of the children eating horse steaks seared / rare. I hope you paleo dieters are envious of these wonderful freshly killed horse steaks that have never been refrigerated. The kids loved these steaks so much they had the same horse steaks again at 7pm dinner time.

Horse Meat as Staple Food for My Family

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Yesterday I read in the newspaper a feature on horse meat that it was healthy meat.  That the people in the City of Malabon had it as a staple food.  No doubt cooked.  Curiosity got the better of me so this morning after dropping off the children in school, I and the driver drove to Malabon City to buy some horse meat.

We arrived in the main wet market (bayan) just behind the Malabon City Hall.  We found two butchers side by side selling fresh horse meat.  They said the horse meat came from a slaughter house in the town of Obando.  Slaughtered in the afternoon and arriving in the Malabon wet market at 4am the next day.  Fresh enough for me.

Most common meat is that of the legs, most of the muscles are there, right?  The price is a mere 170 pesos per kilo, same as pork.  There is a lot of yellow belly fat hanging on the butcher stall and the butcher will add a standard amount of fat with your order of the lean muscle meat that is sliced into steaks about 1/4 of an inch thick.  Fat is priced the same as the meat.  The fat of the horse is more tender than beef fat and is easily chewed liquid.

There is also the “hard” part of the leg which the butcher said is sold separately for other cooking purposes.  Then there are the ribs and bones which can be used for adobo dishes.  I also found a horse heart, good raw, and added it to my order.  Internal organs you have to order by phone as there are bulk buyers who get those.  The butchers say they have higher priced horse tenderloin at 220 pesos per kilo but it is on a per order basis as bulk buyers buy them.  Although I see no reason why we should get that tenderloin when the regular steaks I got were already as tender as the tenderloin of beef.

It is not true that a horse is lean meat only.  The muscles are indeed lean with hardly any fat on them, but you balance this by buying fat that comes from the belly of the horse.  Never eat protein in the absence of fat… that is a recipe to get sick, you get protein poisoning from undigested proteins you get kidney damage… especially from cooked lean meats… so eat your fats, especially raw, its good for you.

In the market I tasted the raw meat, the raw fat, and the raw hearts.  All great.  I wound up buying 6 kilos total.  We then went to a suggested canteen / carinderia to eat some local Malabon city cooked horse meat.  We got adobo and tapa.  With rice.  I had to sacrifice as this is what my children could be eating.

My driver was raving about how good cooked horse was.  I didn’t think much of the cooked horse.  I thought the over cooked meat made it tough.  The fat was cooked into oil.  And with rice, my digestion was penalized.

When we got home the kids had already finished dinner.  But I announced the fresh horse meat I just bought.  They were all excited they wanted to taste horse meat.  So we made a batch with some organic coconut vinegar and fresh raw garlic on some horse meat steaks and some fat.  Seared the horse meat for some 30 seconds per side and served.  Kids loved it, my wife liked it, they raved about it, seared horse is tender and full of flavor.  Kids said horse meat tasted really good.  They are going to have more of the same for their packed breakfast and lunch tomorrow.

I had my raw horse dinner.  It was one of the best raw meats I tasted.  Tasted better than raw goat, better than raw carabao, better than raw chicken.  I’d say it is on par with beef but with its own taste.  Now I know why the Japanese serve raw horse sashimi.

My research on the internet found that in Continental Europe and asian countries and Japan, horse meat is a staple.  And historically and prehistorically and paleolithically horse meat was staple food.  The cave drawings with horses are there not because the cavemen found them beautiful or wanted to ride them, the cavemen drew horses because they were one of their favourite meats!

What is left for me to do is to investigate by going to Obando and see the horse slaughterhouse for myself to see how healthy and where the horses come from.  I know they cull old horses and injured horses for sale, just like they do with carabaos.

I am convinced horse meat belongs as a staple food for my family.  Malabon City is near enough as a supplier.  And the price is right.  It’s cheaper than beef.  And horse meat tastes really good raw, it must be nutritious and biologically compatible with my body.

Sea Urchin / Uni Sashimi in Farmers Market, Dirt Cheap in Ilocos

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I took my 5 year old girl with me to the office this morning. She was on orange juice and coconut juice. This is her raw paleo diet week. She then said she was hungry and wanted sashimi / raw fish and / or raw oysters. Sure.

We went down, bought some calamansi and some guavas. Then for some fish. The hawky vendor offered me uni aka sea urchin… oohhh… yummy… 500 pesos for that small plastic container. He said it was 1/2 kilo, fully packed and submerged in ice. Maybe it was 1/2 kilo or less. I hadn’t had uni in a long time, my little girl was recovering from a long cold, this is a good excuse to blow some money away. So I bought it.

Yummy. Lip smacking good. My daughter relished the raw sea urchin. I taught her to put it on top of the raw tuna sashimi slices… great combo. She really pigged out on it. I pigged out on it myself. In a few short minutes, this made my daughter so sleepy she took a mid morning nap with the nannie in my office. Parent mission accomplished.

I went home for lunch to make sure my 2 boys had their fill of the raw sea urchin. They liked it. More with my 8 year old. We were frustrated some 2 years ago when in Palawan we paid for a lot of sea urchin only to open them and find they were “malnourished”. It wasn’t worth opening the rest of them to find such tiny amounts of sea urchin meat.

I offered my sister in law some uni sashimi, I know she likes this stuff. She declined. She said in her visits to her job in Ilocos province she eats mounds of this stuff. Yes, she eats something like half a kilo in one sitting she said. And that sea urchin was so cheap in Ilocos she pays only 70 pesos to 100 pesos per kilo. She couldn’t believe I paid 500 pesos for my tiny tupperware.

Well thanks for telling us. Now we know where to order a lot of raw sea urchin. She’s going back to Ilocos on Monday. And be back in a few days. While we wait for our next batch of uni sashimi… maybe 2 kilos will do… ha ha ha… pig out!

Raw Squid: “Itlugan” / “with eggs” for dinner

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I chanced upon some super fresh raw squid in Marikina Market around 5pm last night. These squid were “itlugan” / “with eggs”, not easy to find and you really have to pick them. Pick the lumpy ones and take a peak if they have eggs. Pick the squid yourself or the market vendor will be “fair” and give you some with eggs and some with no eggs.

My announcement at dinner came with a WOW from the 2 younger kids who forgot about their cooked dinner. Good timing. They had their fill of raw squid with the raw eggs and raw fat inside. They liked tentacles too.

They aren’t into eating the ink yet so the head and the ink were moved to the refrigerator with the batch to be cooked for the kids’ lunch pack the next day.

It was mission accomplished this evening. A raw dinner for the kids.

A review of our 2009 health changes and challenges

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The past year 2009 was good to me in terms of diet and health. My raw paleo diet that began in 2008 was improved in 2009 with my switch to a high raw fat low carb paleo diet which brought an end to all hypo-glycemia symptoms which all my life I thought was normal. The use of Bieler’s soup enabled me to solidify my gut and allowed me to gain weight. My limiting fruits has been helpful, no longer in the large amounts as in Wai diet, I’ve restricted myself and my family to hydrating fruit and high vitamin fruit.

The challenge with curing my 8 year old boy of tuberculosis / primary complex was a methodical and well executed. We thank the other doctor consultants for their opinions but the ultimate execution lay in my hands. No supplements helped, it was powerful food that saved the day. Henry Bieler was the star, lots of raw muscle beef, raw blood and raw fat, Bieler’s soup with Zucchini, string beans and parsley… plus maybe the beam ray machine helped as well. No supplements or herbals worked in this round. Food is the best and most powerful medicine.

We lost a lot of our herbs and tools when our house was flooded in the big Ondoy flood. My wife responds well to zappers and we lost all 3 zappers in that flood. My wife today has tummy pain which she says will easily be solved with a zapper. We are borrowing a zapper from a friend while we go about buying ourselves a new zapper. Maybe it is a good idea to buy from barefoot herbalist mh a new batch of his herbal dewormer… as an emergency stand by.

We got involved in a debate about curing tooth decay this year. My wai diet and fruitarian trials spilled over to my kids who ate too much fruit. My wife’s own addiction toward sweet fruit though seasonal victimized our 8 year old and our 5 year old which suffered from tooth decay. I had to make stern debates to lessen fruits and increase raw fat intake, even administer raw liver and raw meats to the children.

My wife appreciated the power of EMC and Quantum Minerals Plus drops with the almost instantaneous elimination of her gout pain in her knees and feet. Plus she learned the power of raw fat with raw duck eggs.

2009 was good for us in terms of health. We learned a lot. We are healthier after 2009. Hopefully 2010 is an even better year.

New Tonsillectomy Victim? Saved by lack of money?

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My wife’s nephew is confined in a hospital while being given powerful antibiotics for his alleged tonsil inflammation / infection. This boy has been on home antibiotic drugs for more than a week. I just saw him a few days ago. Now he’s confined in a hospital for failed home anti-biotic treatment? Now the doctor is making a hard sell to operate – to surgically remove the tonsils of the 12 year old boy. Why? Because the tonsils keep getting infected / inflamed? Ridiculous… first class FRAUD! And harmful too!

What’s saving this boy from the tonsillectomy mutilation is lack of money. His grandfather says it sounds like they don’t get a lot of business in their hospital and they want to make money out of this patient. The grandparents are seeking a 2nd or 3rd opinion. But the hospital has yet refused to release the boy.

There is always going against doctors orders. Discharged against hospital advice. Or FIRING the hospital and the doctor. Then going to BETTER doctors who do not have mutilation in mind and who may look at discovering the ROOT CAUSES of the boy’s frequent tonsil inflammations and infections.

Obviously the many rounds of drug antibiotics haven’t been working. Now they put the blame on the tonsils. Now it is nature’s fault tonsils were placed there in the first place. What first class frauds these people are!

This is a blow by blow event I will be reporting. We are driving up there to the hospital with the grandparents. I’m hands off on this matter. Don’t want to be involved in any blame game.

Of course if this were my child I would merely put him on a 100% raw paleo diet, colon cleanse, kidney cleanse, egg yolk liver flush, probably administer a juice fast, or if needed a full bed rest water fast. Swishing and gargling with dilluted cayenne tincture will help immensely. My new cayenne tincture batch is 2 months mature.

I know for a fact that this boy is in an insane wheat based diet. His mom bakes a lot. Plus they eat all those wheat based products. It’s a matter of choosing to stick to their wheat based diet dogma or giving it up in favor of her only child’s health. The boy is obviously allergic to wheat.