So the Mrs. is putting more meat in our diet because of the results of a blood test that showed she needed more iron and vitamin D. We're trying out organ meats. We used beef heart in chili, and that worked out really well. Tonight was liver.
Liver and onions. We'd never had it before, and we asked "How bad could it be?"
Pretty damn bad, actually. No bueno.
So next we're going to try to grind it up and mix it with ground beef to make burgers. We're trying to figure out how to get the nutrients without just eating it straight.
My dad loves liver and onions. Apparently that's not exactly genetic.
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Liver , yuk. There is a spread my grandmother made, chopped liver.
Chicken livers, fried chicken skins, hard boiled eggs and saltines, ground up. Many of the family women made it.
As far as beef liver and onions, I'll go hungry.
Well, we do enjoy pate every now and then. Can't do Beef Wellington without it. But we found out pretty quick that straight liver ain't our bag, baby.
I love liver and onions. But my family does not. My mom also used to make an appetizer out of liver, wrapped in bacon, then deep fried. It is pretty good.
You can also try using the liver with water chestnuts, wrapped with bacon, put it onto a cookie sheet, spread it with either apricot jam, raspberry jam, or some other type of jam, and bake it until done.
Beef heart is another favorite from my youth. You can also cook the heart, and then slice it, then put it into a vinegar solution and pickle it. Or even just put it into a jar of pickle juice after the pickles are gone, and leave it in the refrigerator for a week.
Beef tongue is another meat that people think is gross but is really tasty if you just give it a try.
When my mom was nearing the end of her life, with lung cancer, she did not have much of an appetite. But she was hungry for some of the foods that she remembered from HER youth. And one of those things was the old fashioned liver sausage that they made, in a real butcher shop. I found a place that made it, and drove there, and got some for her, and also for myself. I truly was impressed. It was not anything like the commercial stuff you can buy in a grocery store.
I try to keep my protein level fairly high, due to health reasons, but not too high, again, due to health reasons, as I get kidney stones. And I had not remembered the organ meats that you mentioned. Now, I have to go back to the butcher shop, and pick up some meat, and some of the products that they make on site.
Thanks for the inspiration, and have a great weekend.
Pigpen51
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