[Sca-cooks] Organ meat, was OOP Bugs was:International recipe site

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I cooked brains from scratch for my Hungarian boy friend back when i 
was a full-time ovo-lacto-vegetarian. I have since eaten brains (not 
recently - BSE makes me worry), and they were good.

I have cooked and eaten liver - not a favorite food. However, when i 
was in Germany i had something the name of which i don't exactly 
recall - something like Leben Sauer - which was sort of like 
sauerbrauten, but made with liver. Now, THAT was good.

Thymus and pancreas while in the animal, sweetbreads if it's getting 
eaten - that was good too.

Kidneys... well, if i wanted to eat food out of a urinal i would...

Tripe - not on my list of edible foods. I've eaten it cooked by 
Mexicans, Thai, French, and Peruvians - just to make sure i didn't 
have a mental prejudice. I don't. I just dislike the texture.

On the other hand, when i lived in Indonesia i ate chicken 
intestines, marinated, threaded onto skewers, then charcoal grilled 
and i like them.

Heart - too, uh, firm, for me. Probably ok if ground, but i've never 
had it that way.

Chicken giblets - i don't know why people eat them, unless they need 
to because of economics.
The vegetarian gravy for the non-meat non-turkey had little tiny 
brown diced something in it to resemble giblets...

I'm not a big organ meat eater, but i try to make sure it isn't just mental...

Just a few of my opinions,
Anahita