SERVES: PREP TIME:
Bone Marrow 8TO 12 40 MINUTES, PLUS
12 HOURS INACTIVE TIME
Tomato Tartine
Bone marrow is one of those things that If you love It, A day before serving, pour 6 inches (15 cm) of water into
you love It. If you don't fuck with it, then I feel sorry for a container big enough to hold the marrow bones. Salt
you. Making this dish will make you strong and mighty the water generously; slide the bones into the container,
and fill you with love. Making this dish fills me with joy! cover, and refrigerate for 12 hours. This saltwater soak
When I was making this at home, it really felt real and removes all the blood.
didn't feel like a cookbook shoot. With the sun shining
through our kitchen window, making this dish was a very
The next day, preheat the oven to 325°F (165°C).
nice experience. Roasting the bones, grafting the tomato, Grate the tomatoes on the largest holes of a box grater
squeezing the lemon into the parsley-shallot salad. Food
into a medium bowl. Drain the tomato pulp in a strainer
like this really makes me happy, and I hope It brings your to remove the juices. Season the pulp with a dash of salt
home the joy It brings mine.
and set aside.
4 (6-inch/15 cm) canoe-cut femur marrow bones Remove the marrow bones from the water and lay them
(ask your butcher to cut them for you) onto a wire rack set in a baking sheet; throw in the oven
Sea salt and bake for 30 minutes. You are just turning the marrow
2 beefsteak tomatoes into molten fat, so do not over-render it; you don't want
1 sourdough loaf (best available) to lose all that precious beef butter. Pull from the oven
2 tablespoons olive oil and let cool for 1 minute, but don't let it congeal again.
2 garlic cloves, peeled Turn the oven to the broil setting.
cup (30 g) chopped parsley
cup (100 g) sliced shallots Split the sourdough loaf in half horizontally (like a big
1½ tablespoons lemon juice burger bun). Splash it with the olive oil crust to crust.
teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Put the bread cut side up onto a baking sheet lined with
parchment paper, place under the broiler, and toast until
the bread is nicely golden, allowing it to get a little burnt
around the edges. Pull the bread from the broiler.
Note: Be sure to purchase your bone marrow from a place
that sources well-raised animals, because toxins are stored With the bread still warm and crunchy, scrape the raw
in the fatty tissues of animals. Commodity beef is usually garlic cloves up and down both toasted pieces of bread
filled with antibiotics and hormones. Plus it won't taste until the garlic has fully broken down and the toast
like the best beef butter destined for your toast! smells of raw garlic. Spread the tomato pulp up and
down both pieces of bread, then spoon the bone marrow
from the bone all over the bread. Use a knife to dice up
the marrow on the bread. Sprinkle with the parsley and
shallots and drizzle with the lemon juice. Season with salt
and the pepper.
Cut into 8 to 12 pieces and serve still warm and crispy to
your pals.
134 Home Style Cookery
