Do you eat offal? (For those bored with Clive's thread).

[Dry Rot]

I thought I would start this thread as a counter to Clive's thread which seems to be one for the rich arable farmers! This one is for us small farmers living in the real world.

One of my favourite meals is the traditional haggis and neeps. Haggis (and I am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong! I'm a sassench) is mostly barley, lungs, and liver. But how many outside of a butcher's shop know what's in it and how to make one, let alone how to cook one? All cheap ingredients, so no excuses.

Forty years ago, when I lived in the Scottish Outer Isles, I saw a cow being off loaded into the small island abattoir, so called on the manager to ask him to keep the tripe for my dogs. His reply, "Oh! You'll be lucky! That's a crofter's cow and there won't be anything left for your dogs!" He was right, every scrap was taken away and used.

So what offal do you eat? I'll have fried kidneys or liver for breakfast, haggis for dinner, my mother used to make a delicious steak and kidney pie, and I might even brave tripe and onions for a change. All cheap and tasty if cooked right. There must be lots of recipes from when times were tougher. And most of them are delicious.

 

[Henarar]

Yes
Stuffed heart, steak and kidney pie,
Is tongue counted as offal?

 

[Hesstondriver]

steak & kidney is a harmonious match
Liver, with bacon onions and mash & gravy
Heart gets minced and used in pies
Edit : tounge boiled and sliced in sandwiches

i draw the line at tripe though

 

[Henarar]

steak & kidney is a harmonious match
Liver, with bacon onions and mash & gravy
Heart gets minced and used in pies
Edit : tounge boiled and sliced in sandwiches

i draw the line at tripe though

The last heart we had Clare made a stew with it, dam good it was to, of a cold winter's day
I very often get tongue sandwich as well

 

[Hampton]

As I said previously, fresh lambs liver is the greatest food I ever have. Cut into pieces, floured and fried in the pan in its own gravy.
its like silk.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Had a andouille sausage once. Disgusting

 

[Hesstondriver]

The last heart we had Clare made a stew with it, dam good it was to, of a cold winter's day
I very often get tongue sandwich as well

mix 25% heart mince in with normal and it makes a spot on cottage pie

tounge & mustard on crusty white bread

i feel it is now time for me to publish cook book

 

[Dman2]

Eat plenty of liver
Does that count

 

[steveR]

I think like most, I will eat some offal, some I have found horrible.

Haggis is best boiled for an hour, then given to the Dog, Tripe is all down to the sauce/flavouring.

I love liver, bacon and onions, but I am alone in this in the household.

 

[Netherfield]

Can't stand either Kidney or Liver, it's just something about the taste.

Don't mind Heart.

We used to have tripe, although thinking back it tasted of nothing really.

My daugter once went to Jordan with a English/Jordanian boyfriend, the family brought out a sheeps head, almost made her sick when they dived in to the brain and eyes, I think I might have been the same though.

 

[shearerlad]

I would eat haggis 5 days a week if I could, same with black pudding (maybe not offal, but ingredients classed as 5th quarter) but I’m not keen on liver, kidneys etc as stand alone items on the plate, it’s the texture that gets me.
When I was in NZ, we had a pig’s head that was sat in the middle of the table, which I enjoyed but it isn’t what you would expect to be served in this country

 

[Boysground]

When I was at Seale Hayne one of the pubs we drank in did a cracking liver and bacon. If I had it my housemates used to complain and put me on another table they thought it disgusting

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[Netherfield]

Love black pudding as well, but don't think it's offal really.

 

[Boysground]

Love black pudding as well, but don't think it's offal really.

Don’t care it’s not a proper breakfast without it.

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[Anymulewilldo]

Haggis, Black pudding, foods of the gods
Steak and kidney & Heart go down well too
Tongue is right enough with a splash of mustard on a Butty

I just can’t bring myself to go for tripe though..

 

[Bury the Trash]

crazy if you don't like liver and onions in a nice gravy with bits of bacon very , very good for you as well, pigs liver lovely.

Sweet breads are gorgeous but don't have them very often and a bit more seasonal.

 

[Tim G]

I thought I would start this thread as a counter to Clive's thread which seems to be one for the rich arable farmers! This one is for us small farmers living in the real world.

One of my favourite meals is the traditional haggis and neeps. Haggis (and I am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong! I'm a sassench) is mostly barley, lungs, and liver. But how many outside of a butcher's shop know what's in it and how to make one, let alone how to cook one? All cheap ingredients, so no excuses.

Forty years ago, when I lived in the Scottish Outer Isles, I saw a cow being off loaded into the small island abattoir, so called on the manager to ask him to keep the tripe for my dogs. His reply, "Oh! You'll be lucky! That's a crofter's cow and there won't be anything left for your dogs!" He was right, every scrap was taken away and used.

So what offal do you eat? I'll have fried kidneys or liver for breakfast, haggis for dinner, my mother used to make a delicious steak and kidney pie, and I might even brave tripe and onions for a change. All cheap and tasty if cooked right. There must be lots of recipes from when times were tougher. And most of them are delicious.

Haggis is made with oatmeal not barley, at least that's what I thought!

Love haggis, black pudding, brawn, faggots, etc, but can't bring myself to eat liver or kidneys. Just don't like the flavour or texture. I did retry lambs liver a couple of weeks back when we'd had some lambs back from butchery but still not a fan, Mrs G and the kids (7 & 5 year old) all loved it.

 

[Gerbert]

We used to send a few cows and pigs to the abbetoir for our own use, and another farmer close by aswell. They didn't like the tongue though so they gave it to us, mostly at school as it was convenient. A teacher asked about it and didn't believe it, it was a lovely reaction when she saw the tongue. Not quite my taste though.

 

[Boysground]

Tongue was always a Christmas treat when I was a kid

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[Bury the Trash]

Love tongue but sliced from the butcher.