(Picture of Buffalo Chili with a dollop of Honey flavored Greek yogurt. I like the combo of sweet with savory.)
I remember reading that book Eat Right For Your Blood Type, and (taken with a grain of salt because there is still no solid scientific evidence this eating for your blood type theory is concrete) it said B types like myself should avoid chicken meat because it has some agglutinating lectin that attacks our bloodstream. Along with the chicken egg allergy, it appears that my body just thinks fowl is foul.
Bring on the parade of atypical meats
What blew my mind though was that the Blood type diet said some of the best meats to eat are venison, mutton, buffalo, goat, and Bugs Bunny (rabbit to be exact but when I think of cooked rabbit I get scary visions of Fatal Attraction.)
Um, so, none of these meats are mainstream at all. How many times have you been to a restaurant or BBQ and seen goat, buffalo, or mutton on the menu? Indeed, there are parts of the US and the world where these meats are main stays, but I'm talking about living in your basic US suburban town shopping at Safeway or Trader Joe's.
Buffalo...tastes like beef
To my surprise, I was shopping at Whole Foods in Napa the other day, and in the To-Go soup section they had Buffalo Chili which was made with chunks of buffalo meat. Intrigued, I got a pint of the buffalo chili, and it was delicious. In fact, if I hadn't known it was buffalo meat, I would have thought there was beef in there.
The Whole Foods buffalo chili contained your typical chili ingredients, but one ingredient that stood out was tamarind because I've never seen tamarind used in a typical American dish. This fact could just be my limited exposure.
I wondered if Whole Foods used the tamarind simply for a twist on their recipe or to help make the buffalo meat more appealing taste wise to a beef palate. If anyone knows, I'd love to hear more about it.
