Could eating freeze-dried organs be the secret to a longer life?...

[HawkTheSlayer]

I actually like baked chicken livers. They aren't nearly as funky as cow livers. I'm guessing that's because they do not live as long.

I'm not a liver fan. I'd rather eat the other stuff. Lol.
But I love baked or fried chicken livers.

And chicken gizzard gravy is da bomb when those gizzards get, melt-in-your-mouth tender.

[HawkTheSlayer]

I fry up chicken hearts and gizzards all the time. I love em.

I like baked and fried chicken hearts, too.
Tahu, do you boil the gizzards a bit first before you fry them so they are not tough?

[Mister D]

I can’t do liver. I don’t know why hearts would make you gag. Maybe you aren’t cooking them long enough?

Possibly. I have little experience cooking with organ meat.

[carolina73]

I actually like baked chicken livers. They aren't nearly as funky as cow livers. I'm guessing that's because they do not live as long.

Wrapped in bacon. Awesome appetizer.

[Collateral Damage]

Organ gravy just smells like gravy. Lots of onions is the key.

Now.....if your going to boil tripe or chitlins, you wanna do dat outside!
You have to clean them painstakingly well. Even the ones that come "already cleaned"!

Then, put them in some water and bring the water to a boil. Boil um for a good while. Then throw that water away and start over with fresh water.
Season them like crawfish or shrimp. Add lemon halves, onion halves, crab boil, salt, red pepper and let them simmer or slow boil until tender. I usually cook 10-20 pounds at a time in a crawfish boiling pot but a turkey fryer would work well. I also add about 5 lbs of chicken gizzards to the pot.
If you have any leftovers, you can make a gravy the next day.
Menudo in Spanish, I think.

Half of what you just listed would have me in the ER in 30 minutes these days. My diet may be somewhat bland these days, but acidic or spicy could send me into spasms and agonizing pain. That doesn't mean I won't salivate looking at a good shrimp boil.

If I end up not being able to eat garlic, my end days have come.

[Mister D]

Wrapped in bacon. Awesome appetizer.

Good idea. I may try that.

[carolina73]

I'm not a liver fan. I'd rather eat the other stuff. Lol.
But I love baked or fried chicken livers.

And chicken gizzard gravy is da bomb when those gizzards get, melt-in-your-mouth tender.

I forgot about that. It's always in the base for my turkey gravy. I always smoke the thanksgiving day turkey and everything that goes with it., so that is the one day that the wife does nothing in the kitchen except for in the pan stuffing.

[HawkTheSlayer]

Possibly. I have little experience cooking with organ meat.

You heart has to be in it.

[HawkTheSlayer]

Half of what you just listed would have me in the ER in 30 minutes these days. My diet may be somewhat bland these days, but acidic or spicy could send me into spasms and agonizing pain. That doesn't mean I won't salivate looking at a good shrimp boil.

If I end up not being able to eat garlic, my end days have come.

Garlic is a guaranteed right n the Constitution!

[Standing Wolf]

I can do liver. I cut it very fine and mix it with rice and spices. The most vile thing I have eaten was cow kidney- at a restaurant in Germany.

Not sure if it was the absolute worst thing I've ever eaten, but the kidney I ate in London was certainly close. All my life I'd read stories and seen movies set in England where people were eating a "steak and kidney pie" and I'd always been curious about it, so one of the first things I did there was buy one. I love liver, cow or chicken, but definitely not a fan of kidney. I lived all over the U.S. during my time in the Navy, and I don't believe I ever saw kidney in any grocery store or on a restaurant menu anywhere.