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« on: April 23, 2009, 09:54:43 pm » |
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In the interests of saving a bob or 2 I have been trying out some more unusual but cheap cuts of meat.
Braun made frm a pigs head was a mixed success - only one of the kids would eat it.
Last week I tried Ox heart. I found this very lean, dark meat cleaned and sliced in my local Pak'n'Save for half the price of gravy beef.
Bit bit of googling lead me to the conclusion that it had to be cooked slowly and be spiced.
I used the spiced stew recipe in my crock pot cook book and cooked the cubed meat for 9 hours on low.
Result: The meat was firm rather than tough but certainly not as tender as I expected. Flavour surprisingly tasteless, no meaty taste at all, just as well the stew was spiced. Texture, reminisant of over cooked kidney or liver, slightly meaty and surprising firm. Not marvelous but good enough for the leftovers to be served on toast the next night with no objections.
Would possibly be acceptable, maybe even nice used instead of steak in a steak and kidney stew. At $4.50/kg it was certainly cheap.
Next week we try sheep's heart.
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Magoo
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 06:48:58 am » |
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I have never used ox heart but my husband likes sheep hearts. I stuff them with sage and onion stuffing and roast them slowly. Best used cold. Daresay ox heart could be done the same way. Wrap it in foil to cook. Cooking it too quickly will toughen it because it is after a muscle and will constrict. Lambs fry I soak in milk for half an hour before cooking. Clears the blood and sweetens the meat. Tripe is horribly expensive these days if you can find it so haven't had that in a long while. You can have the pigs heads. Once upon a time there was no such thing as left overs from the carcase even the dogs were fed. That is until hydatids put a stop to that.
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Lovelee
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 02:36:48 pm » |
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Theres one good place for offal - buried in the vege garden.
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2009, 07:48:40 pm » |
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Lambs fry and bacon , cooked correctly, is divine .
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2009, 07:42:25 am » |
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Devilled kidneys on toast and crumbed lambs brains.
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Magoo
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2009, 08:05:04 am » |
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Just the thing for a good start to a chilly morning cept'n the brains. I used to eat them when I was a child but as I aged they lost their appeal. Odd really I used to have a cast iron gut and would try anything but these days the gag reflex works overtime. Used to love sweetbreads too. Haven't seen them around for years.
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OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2009, 01:06:51 pm » |
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I used to buy sweetbreads years ago, last time I looked they were soooo expensive.
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