Bobby Jo
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... there's always someone who thinks they're a comedian. -- And yeah, I laughed out loud ...
Bobby Jo
LIVER most nutrient dense meat, but YUCK!
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... there's always someone who thinks they're a comedian. -- And yeah, I laughed out loud ...
Bobby Jo
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LOL My grandfather started a barbecue place ‘T&F’ of course they didn’t barbecue possum. But my mom tells this story of a man coming in everyday betting nobody could ever get him to eat possum. My grandfather barbecued a possum one day and made him a chopped sandwich...after two sandwiches and saying how it was the best barbecue he had ever had, my grandfather told him ‘you just ate possum’.
Uck!!!!
For us older folk, whose parents went through the depression, we were feed a variety of cheap meat cuts, like pig trotters, tripe, (cow's stomach lining) , chook claws, hearts and gizzards, cow hearts, lamb and calf fries, lamb brains, silver side, lobbies, catfish etc.. The food was healthy and we all did not go without protein on the table because the meat purchased was affordable.
Gravy was made by browning plain flour in the residual fat/lard in the pan and then the frypan was deglazing with water to remove all the protein stuck to the pan so that it was easier to clean when it was washed up.
We would then use Ajax and steel wool to polish the cast iron frypan to polish the cooking surface to remove the last of the protein that was stuck to it.
A stewing pot was use to make chicken, meat and vegetable stock from the chicken carcases and meat bones .
To cook gizzards and hearts requires a pressure cooker, a common cooking pot found back then in the kitchen but today is considered to be dangerous to use in a household when not used correctly.
Lambs fry, i.e. liver, is spoilt when overcooked and becomes chewy to eat. Meat that is cooked so that there is no "blood" colouring left in the meat is like eating leather.
I like Kangaroo meat, but it become tough when over cooked. It needs to cooked so that the meat is still red when it is fried or grilled. If you do not want the meat to still be red when you eat it, sear the meat on both sides and then cook it in a microwave as the meat will still remain tender to eat.
So many of the skills that were used in the kitchen have been lost today in out rush to do as many "exciting" things as possible in as little time as possible.
Have people considered that the sausages we love to eat is the butchers way of not wasting any of the protein from the carcasses he buys for his shop to sell.
Being prepared to eat as many cuts of meat as possible means that wastage of meat etc., is reduced and this is a good thing in an environmental responsible context.
The yuck factor should not determine what we should be able to eat. Was not Peter told that all "food" was good for us?
In Australia, the original people groups would travel each year to a mountain in SE Qld, to eat the nuts off of the Bunya Pine trees. If the Bunya Pine nuts were not roasted properly, the nuts would be highly poisonous and was know to kill those who ate of the nut without it being cooked properly. It was a time for great social gatherings for those people in times past.
Oh well we are all a funny lot when it comes to what is good for us.
Gravy was made by browning plain flour in the residual fat/lard in the pan and then the frypan was deglazing with water to remove all the protein stuck to the pan so that it was easier to clean when it was washed up.
We would then use Ajax and steel wool to polish the cast iron frypan to polish the cooking surface to remove the last of the protein that was stuck to it.
A stewing pot was use to make chicken, meat and vegetable stock from the chicken carcases and meat bones .
To cook gizzards and hearts requires a pressure cooker, a common cooking pot found back then in the kitchen but today is considered to be dangerous to use in a household when not used correctly.
Lambs fry, i.e. liver, is spoilt when overcooked and becomes chewy to eat. Meat that is cooked so that there is no "blood" colouring left in the meat is like eating leather.
I like Kangaroo meat, but it become tough when over cooked. It needs to cooked so that the meat is still red when it is fried or grilled. If you do not want the meat to still be red when you eat it, sear the meat on both sides and then cook it in a microwave as the meat will still remain tender to eat.
So many of the skills that were used in the kitchen have been lost today in out rush to do as many "exciting" things as possible in as little time as possible.
Have people considered that the sausages we love to eat is the butchers way of not wasting any of the protein from the carcasses he buys for his shop to sell.
Being prepared to eat as many cuts of meat as possible means that wastage of meat etc., is reduced and this is a good thing in an environmental responsible context.
The yuck factor should not determine what we should be able to eat. Was not Peter told that all "food" was good for us?
In Australia, the original people groups would travel each year to a mountain in SE Qld, to eat the nuts off of the Bunya Pine trees. If the Bunya Pine nuts were not roasted properly, the nuts would be highly poisonous and was know to kill those who ate of the nut without it being cooked properly. It was a time for great social gatherings for those people in times past.
Oh well we are all a funny lot when it comes to what is good for us.
I remember loving Austrailia's beef sausages. What the English call bangers. I've tried getting some recipes and giving it to a local butcher, but he never got them right.
One of the key ingrediencies in making sausages is fat which adds flavour.
I make my own rissoles and I add dried breadcrumbs to the meat mixture as well as vegetables and herbs and seasoning. I could also use meal, which is the husks of the seeds which is discarded when making flour of many types, "White" when wholemeal flour is not desired.
One of the other ingrediencies needed in the mixture to bind the meat together is water and this is one of the reasons why the sausages are coated in plain floor to stop the fat/oil from spitting hot oil everywhere over the stove top.
Bobby Jo
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I liked liver the last time I had it, -- probably a half dozen years ago --, but my "pantry" has about 140 cans of WONDERFUL Keystone Beef (avail. from W/M) for the family:
... and I think somewhere close to 250 cans of SPAM for a change of pace, and for the "needy":
So stock up while you can, and ENJOY when we can't buy or sell! :)
Bobby Jo
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VictoryinJesus
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I remember going to a fair when I was down under and saw them making them. It has been many decades since I was there, but I can still "taste" them.
My mom used to serve us chicken liver with our eggs on Sunday mornings. I always found it revolting. I've never understood how an organ meant to filter out toxins from the circulatory system could be a healthy food. How does that work?
Any liver when it is overcooked becomes "powdery" to the senses and as such it is also unpleasant to eat.
Now the protein structure of the "filter" does not store the toxins but is the means by which they are collected and then flushed out of the respective body.
I always wondered that too, so googled it.
When the liver has broken down harmful substances, its by-products are excreted into the bile or blood. Bile by-products enter the intestine and leave the body in the form of feces. Blood by-products are filtered out by the kidneys, and leave the body in the form of urine.
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historyb
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Really? I don't remember that. I was working at Paramount when Happy Days was being filmed and got to go to cast parties, plus in the audience for episodes.
Never heard of liver in a can. I definitely have to check it out. Now spam, don't eat that all that much. Corn beef hash is salvageable and pretty good straight from the can
Bobby Jo
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Well, I guess "liver" comes from a steer, but I never considered it "beef" in the classical sense. -- The Keystone "BEEF" is half-dollar size chips which if Grandma could cook as good as these taste, she'd be living with us. :)
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Liver is fine, if eaten from a clean animal, provided it is drained of blood. I see some comments here that talk about unclean animals such as pigs. The bible does not endorse eating such animals.
After the flood it was not that way.
Before the flood there was no such thing as unclean animals. But there were only certain animals that were clean enough to be an offering to the Lord. But as for food, from the Garden of Eden until the flood, all animals and humans ate vegetation. Even carnivores. There was no spilling of blood in the Garden. Meat was only introduced to our nature and the nature of carnivores after the flood, and all moving things were good for food. But God commanded more of the animals used for offerings to God to be brought on the ark. Seven of each, rather than the two of all other animals.
Genesis 9:
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Actually, unclean animals were considered unclean because they represented Gentiles to the Jews. But when the gospel was opened to the Gentiles, Cornelius being the first, God cleansed all animals from being considered sinful to eat.
Leviticus 20:
25 You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.
Acts of the Apostles 10:
15 And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”
1 Timothy 4:
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
1 Corinthians 6:
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them.
There are some meats that must be cooked fully, like pork, but even "clean" meats like poultry. A turkey that has not reached a certain temperature when being baked, and then eaten can kill you. Beef and fish, on the other hand, can be eaten raw or rare.
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