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(Victor Sack) wrote:

> Rhonda Anderson > wrote:
>
> > (Victor Sack) wrote:
> >
> > > They are sweetbreads, kidneys, tripe, chitterlings, lights/lungs, ears,
> > > tails, trotters, cheek, tongue, brains, heart, giblets, fries/testicles
> > > - all considered to be offal/awful. They have very little to do with
> > > each other, culinarily.
> >
> > Mm, tails, trotters, cheek, ears - I probably wouldn't class those as
> > offal in my own internal ramblings. While I don't know that I'd go out
> > and buy any of those any time soon, I wouldn't necessarily pass up an
> > opportunity to try them - though ears I'm more familiar with as a
> > rawhide treat for dogs so not seeming so appetising :-). I have seen
> > some recipes for cheek that looked very good.
>
> Ears are not to everyone's taste, as they tend to be cartilagineous.
> Testicles tend to be bland. Trotters, if served by themselves, rather
> than used as a gelatinous ingredient, are a rather fussy dish and one
> requiring long cooking. Cheek is very good for gelatinous stews akin to
> oxtail ones.
>
> You seem to have missed the best part of them all, offal or no offal:
> tongue. Nothing is better in the whole wide world, meatwise. Nothing.
>
> Then there are those delicate sweetbreads... And Tammy's kidneys in
> mustard sauce... And menudo or sopa de mondongo... And
> andouillettes... Ah!
>
> Victor

I totally adore sweetbreads. ;-d They are good marinated and grilled or
boiled fresh and served with a cream sauce over toast or scrambled eggs.

Trotters are good as a single item cooked in a stew with miripoix. They
don't require long cooking if you use a pressure cooker. One hour and
you are good to go. Calves feet or chicken feet, same same.

Cheek meat has a LOT of applications. Best in tacos (imho) but also good
as a basic stew meat. I generally cook those the day ahead of time tho'
so the resulting stock/broth can be defatted overnight in the
refrigerator.

I've never eaten ears. Not yet.

Tongue is a delicious delicacy.
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