What to Do With Fried Bone Marrow Bones
Eating bone marrow is an experience best described as “intuitively decadent.” Once seared, the juicy meat oil inside the bones can be scraped off and spread over toast, mixed with rice and vegetables, or eaten with meat for an insane carnivorous experience.
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While bone marrow is commonly served in trendy steak houses and small, plate-oriented bistros, there is no reason you can’t cook and eat them at home. All you need is a bag of bones, some salt, and an oven.
Almost every grocery store that has a butcher has these things. (They might just say “beef bones” on the packaging.) If you want them to be sliced horizontally (as you see above), call ahead and have the butcher cut them for you. But if there is no time for phone calls, you are very busy! – and you need a brain now , no matter if they are split in half.
Once you have them, simply preheat the oven to 450 ℉, sprinkle all the bones with salt and bake these babies for 15 or 20 minutes, until the bone marrow is soft and even.
My favorite way to eat bone marrow is to just spread toast (and my face!), But you can balance all the richness with a simple parsley salad or pickled onions. Use a butter knife to scoop up the zucchini, spread it on some charred white bread, and top with something crispy and sour (if necessary). You can also serve the bones along with pasta, rice, or any other dish you think goes well with an extra dose of meat-based fat. After you’ve freed the bone marrow from the bones, toss them into a pot of vegetables to make what kids call “bone broth.” (This is a stock. Good product, but still in stock.)