CLOSE TO NATURE

 This little feller was saying "baaaaa" about 10 minutes ago.  Slaughtering animals is all in a day's work and Mongolians know animal anatomy first hand.  I think they would get an A in anatomy class and would be whiz kids at the dissecting lab.

The innards are the tastiest bits and every part of the animal is eaten right down to the ears.  I bet you can guess what this lady is cleaning out in one bowl and what some of the organs are in the other bowl.

Skin is  eaten as well so they scorch off the lamby fur with a blow torch so they can boil the whole head and eat the skin.  This sheep head looks just like the one we ate when we were visiting the countryside town of Khovd. 

They like to eat the legs and hoofs so these legs are waiting for the scorch treatment that the head will get.
 

These look like a couple of fuzzy rags don't they.  But I think they are sheep stomach.  People love to eat stomach.
 

If you didn't know what this lady was really doing you might think she was getting her yarn ready to roll into balls.  She has just finished cleaning out the intestines and is getting them ready to stuff with all sorts of goodies like blood vessels and other tender bits.

  

Now that it's cooked it looks pretty good.  The food we ate at YSA Conference was tasty.

Most of the time you could eat your dinner from a cup.  Lots of soup made with sheep, potatoes, carrots, onions and broth is how they cook because they don't have ovens so meals are one pot throw togethers.  Easy cleanup for the doctor.
 

Here are some of the innards, organs, skin and sundry pieces people could slice off and eat.  The far left rounded object is uterus stuffed with blood which congeals into a pasty solid.  Yum!  This beats the Maori boilup hands down.