Liver and Onions...

[Brian D. Bray]

Dutch Oven Liver & Onions

Rinse and flour (breading) liver with seasoned flour.
Place layer of bacon across the bottom of the Dutch Oven.
Place floured liver on top of bacon.
Layer onion slices over top of liver slices.
Add 2 Tblsp water.

Heat bacon until it begins fat begins to glaze then add other ingredients. Simmer for 45 minutes.

The result is liver that is more like Salisbary steak, soft, with a hint of bacon.  The juice makes a great gravy and only needs a tad more thickening (flour or Corn Starch)

[TwT]

well if they every have a liver shortage yaw cant blame it on me, can't stand it (any kind) just something that is nasty to me.

[dpence]

Brian I am going to have to try cooking liver in my dutch oven.  That made my mouth water.  Yes calf liver is very tender and deer liver is larpin' too.  I guess I'm backwoods cause I do like some animal innards.  BTW, sweetbreads are outstanding.  Guess it's how we were raised up...

[Brian D. Bray]

We used to make a kidney pie out of the kidneys and heart.  Yes, Sweet breads are good too.

It was more like a shepards pie with chopped kidneys and heart. 

The English version of Kidney pie is made from Kidneys and steak and baked in a real pie crust.

And for you suasage lovers, grind your meat, mix in the seasonings. And then, this is the important part, Wash out the small intestine and fill with the sausage mix.  Twist 3 times every six inches or so.   You can make larger sausages by making the twists every foot or 2 instead of inches.  (That's the old way of doing it.  You knew the sausage was done cooking when the skin (intestine) split. 

[iddee]

>>>>Liver. Eating the organ that filters all of the poisons out of an animals system is not my thing.<<<<

But I am betting you will eat an unborn fetus which came out of a bird's hindend.......... Better known as an egg.

I like liver only when cooked with tomato sauce. The tomato seems to reduce the strong liver smell and taste.

[Irwin]

Fresh liver is the only way to go. When I do get it I soak it in orange juice over night. It takes away the strong liver taste.

[JP]

Hey, you guys ever eat or even heard of sweetbreads? I watch Top Chef and Iron Chef, my two favorite shows incidentally, and sweetbreads seem to be some fancy delicacy. Never even heard of it myself until it was mentioned on the tube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread


...JP

[KONASDAD]

Hey, you guys ever eat or even heard of sweetbreads? I watch Top Chef and Iron Chef, my two favorite shows incidentally, and sweetbreads seem to be some fancy delicacy. Never even heard of it myself until it was mentioned on the tube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread


...JP

Love sweatbreads. When cooked correctly, buttery smooothe. Difficult to truly master as temp needs to be very accurate or it gets tough. Truly a delicacy.

[Jerrymac]

                                                     

[poka-bee]

                                                    

My sentiments exactly!!  J

[asprince]

Does it taste like chicken?

Steve

[Natalie]

I use to work in the kitchen of a nursing home and there was one extremely hot summer day when we had to cook 105 liver and onion dinners.
I still can't get the smell out of my head.
My parents use to cook it growing up but I refused to eat it then and I refuse to eat it now. I don't know how that part of any animal can be good for you anyways.

[dpence]

Sweetbreads are very tender if fixed right, yes a light sort of taste.  One might think it tastes like chicken but could be beef, pork or lamb. The ones I like come from a cow.  My aunt fixed them for me and my son out in California a few years ago.  I didn't know there was such a thing at that time.  The place where we get meat processed in Macon, MO has them so I try to keep some in the freezer.  Yum.  Man, I'm getting hungry.  Didn't mean to make anyone sick, everyone has their own taste.  Frog legs anyone?   

[Cindi]

Ich.....I feel like I am getting sick, smiling.

When we took our last bunch of Muscovy drakes to the slaughterhouse, my Sister insisted that I insist that the dude give me all the internal organs that people like to eat, ich.....still thinking about it makes me almost sick.  By the time 15 ducks were done in and their good inside parts chucked into a pail with a lid, with ice cubes in it, I could barely carry it.  Man those dudes must have had some pretty big inside parts that we got from them. I took them to my Sister, not wanting to know what she did with all those tidbits.  I think these inside parts are called giblets or something like that.  There is the liver, and the food grinder thingy (can't recall what that is called).  I think that she made some kind of pate with that stuff.  Never asked, never really wanted to know.  But that was alot of slimy things that went into that big ol' bucket.  ich....blech...have a most wonderful and great day, attract great health.  Cindi

[poka-bee]

Cindi, that is gross!   The gizzard is what you are thinking about.  Actually they are not so bad as far as "organ" meats go cause they are a muscle as is the heart. They are very tough though & have a gristle running through so you have to cook forever. Liver & the rest are slimy icky gutty ooze! You could take that stuff, boil it up outside cool & feed to the dogs & chix...Funny thing about giblets..well maybe not to the guys but us Lamond girls refer to "guy parts" as giblets.... Amanda & Chels are keeping up the tradition!   J

[kathyp]

oh you guys....  nothing is more disappointing than buying a whole bird and finding the liver was not included .  makes me miss raising my own!  cindi, she probably made that great gravy that you all had, with those innards   

[Jessaboo]

LOVE liver and onions - chicken or beef liver. We soak it in milk about 1/2 hour before cooking to tenderize a bit. Use a little red wine when cooking. Yum. I guess I like goose and duck liver too as I have always liked pates.

The thing that destroys most people I know is that we eat our liver and onions with a side of BRUSSELS SPROUTS. If they weren't gagging before, they usually are by now...

Think I just decided what's for dinner tonight.

- Jess

[Jerrymac]

BRUSSELS SPROUTS!!!!!

I really like Brussels Sprouts. Boiled cabbage. yum yum

[TwT]

BRUSSELS SPROUTS!!!!!

I really like Brussels Sprouts. Boiled cabbage. yum yum

  now your talking about something good to eat Jerry, can't say that for liver, I can say that liver and onions can be very good but the way you fix it is what count's, cook liver and onions slowly until tender then when cooked, throw out the liver and eat the onions   thats about the only way I could eat it 

[Cindi]

oh you guys....  nothing is more disappointing than buying a whole bird and finding the liver was not included .  makes me miss raising my own!  cindi, she probably made that great gravy that you all had, with those innards   

Kathy, no way!!!  I made the gravy and I KNOW what went into the gravy, hee, hee, and it was not the gut things!!!  Kathy, why don't you raise your own?  You used to right? You have the property/land, go for it girl!!!

I have a story about meat birds I will tell one day.  Nothing too interesting, just something I saw at the slaughterhouse guys place, this thread is about liver and onions, I should try to keep to the topic somehow.....

Giblets, the culinary term for the edible inside organs:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-giblets.htm

Interesting stuff for surely.

Now, Jody, the term for the man parts, I got such a kick out of this when you said this in your post, hee, hee, !!!!

Funny thing about giblets..well maybe not to the guys but us Lamond girls refer to "guy parts" as giblets.... evil Amanda & Chels are keeping up the tradition! grin  J

That made me laugh, hee, hee, that secret smiling laugh!!!  Have that most wonderful and awesome day, life, health, attract that great health.  Cindi

Oooh, Jerry we could start the entire new thread about the foods that we love, I love ALL the vegies in the cabbage/broccoli/brussels sprouts, yum, yum, 10:30 a.m. and I am already drooling over the dinner veggies!!!  and Ted, yep, yep, throw out the liver after it has been simmered, eat the onions, yeah!!!!

Lets start a thread on the brassica family of vegetables, and the special methods of cooking/sauces,etc. Let's go!!! OK, I'll begin, look for Brassicas!!!