Chatterbox Monday

It is possible to cook pig's liver so it's tasty and edible, but it's a ton of hard work. And bloody easy to fuck it up. The thing which I hate are the goddam tubes and I have to remove them.

Very, very finely slicing the organ, was the only way I could get get what I wanted. I used to buy a whole one and, wearing Marigolds, press the thing down, finely slicing parallel with the palm of one hand with a very sharp knife, away from the grotesque mass of tubes in the core. After getting as many nice slices about 3-4" across, I'd reserve those slices between oiled paper, draining the blood into a bowl.

Then, with a small sharp knife, I'd cut all the remaining flesh from the 'rubber bands' discarding the latter. The bits I'd add to a sofrito with a can of tinned tomatoes and red wine in a frying pan, reducing by half. I'd remove that from the frying pan into a warmed dish. Quickly coating the slices in a small amount of flour 1:3 with panko crumbs; I'd add butter to the frying pan flash frying the slices and serving these onto individual plates on a bed of fluffy white rice and bring them to the table. Served typically with a steamed green veg like broccoli and peas.

And kill anyone who decided to fuck about doing something else while it went cold. Like omelettes, this MUST be eaten hot. Ye gods I am so very bloody hungry right now.

Continuation of the weekly Trails in the Sky the 3rd gaming stream last night. At one point the party was standing in front of a door that would only open if they knew 20 recipes. However, they only knew about seven. Since recipes can be learnt by eating a dish, the obvious solution to this was to scoff all their food supplies. I jokingly called Andrew a monster for doing this without having a particular character in the party who's permanently hungry. YouTube's humourless AI censored me into oblivion but had no problem with a love spam bot that showed up a while later. After that it censored my blue balls joke and, puzzlingly, a completely innocent reminder by me to check out a character's portrait in the menu.

How am I supposed to win the audience award for the funniest joke whilst suffering this kind of censorship?

OTTM: already last week my brother had suspected that he caught the 'rona from his Pref. Mam., now that's been confirmed. Fortunately his Pref. Mam. had tested positive before they were on their way to visit my mother who still hasn't been microchipped because her GP is an idiot, so could have been worse. Still, it's a mess.

I bloody love liver and onions*, but I could never be bothered to go through the palaver of cooking it, so I only get it if someone else has been doing the hard work.

And the best thing about ordering a plate of it in a restaurant is that nobody ever asks you to share. Heheheh.

*note the difference between this and loving it bloody

Not had liver in years other than in pate form. Do like it though.



Currently making carbonara. Or scrambled eggs pasta. we shall see in about 5 mins.

{Edit}or the third option of soup when you put in too much pasta water to loosen the sauce.

quattro stelle

I made cottage pie, served with tender stem brocolli and carrots on my last* afternoon of freedom. Back to making money for The Man tomorrow.

I too love liver, onions and mash. But not had it since I left home (ma + pa's) donkeys years ago. It was a staple back then.

*not really, got next Friday and Monday (bank holiday) off. Boy could I get used to a 3 day working week. Alas, it's never going to happen.

Tids, tell how the coconut hurt you. 

I'm with you on coconut, Tids. Desiccated coconut literally makes me sick - it's the feel of it in my mouth, I think. Over the years, the association of smell with the gag reflex has become established so I avoid it like the plague - with a solitary exception and that's cream of coconut in curry as a thickening agent (provided it's not a separately identifiable flavour).

** Definitely not.

Alcohol will do that to your poor broken body. Surprised you're still alive.

Edit: not disappointed, I didn't mean disappointed, you understand, just surprised.

Watched the first episode of HouseGame of DragonThrones. I thought it was pretty solid.

4 stars