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

[Standing Wolf]

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

There was a little fried chicken place set up in the one of the old blimp hangars at Moffett Field in the '70s, and you could buy a paper cup full of fried hearts and gizzards there. Back home at Sunday dinner, if we had fried chicken my sister and I would argue over who got the heart.

[Peter1469]

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.

I could read German enough to know what I was ordering was cow, but I didn't catch the kidney part.

[Tahuyaman]

There was a little fried chicken place set up in the one of the old blimp hangars at Moffett Field in the '70s, and you could buy a paper cup full of fried hearts and gizzards there. Back home at Sunday dinner, if we had fried chicken my sister and I would argue over who got the heart.

I buy packages of hearts and gizzards the the commissary at the local naval sub base.

[Tahuyaman]

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?

I don’t boil them first. I just fry them on a medium high heat until the outside is blackened a bit. I wouldn’t call them tough. Just a bit rubbery. I don’t mind that.

[Abby08]

I love battered and deep fried chicken livers and gizzards.

[Standing Wolf]

The wife and I have a tradition where on Mother's Day and her birthday I will make whatever she wants for dinner, and she does the same for me on my birthday and Father's Day. This last Father's Day I asked her to make one of my very favorite dishes - braised chicken livers and rice. Simple, easy to prepare, inexpensive and SO good.

[Dr. Who]

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.

I don't know why that is spelled with a 'c', it should (given what it is and what is smells like while being prepared) be spelled with an 's'.

[Dr. Who]

I could read German enough to know what I was ordering was cow, but I didn't catch the kidney part.

Mustn't have been cleaned properly. Properly cleaned and cooked (especially in kidney pie), beef kidney is very tasty. If it tastes a bit like ammonia, they didn't clean it well.

[Peter1469]

Mustn't have been cleaned properly. Properly cleaned and cooked (especially in kidney pie), beef kidney is very tasty. If it tastes a bit like ammonia, they didn't clean it well.

They didn't do it well. It had the appearance of a high end restaurant. But I don't remember where it was.

[Dr. Who]

They didn't do it well. It had the appearance of a high end restaurant. But I don't remember where it was.

I don't think that many people know how to clean a kidney properly. My mother did, but I've had kidney pie at restaurants where the kidney wasn't cleaned properly and then it's just gross.