Gizzards

[Loyalist Dave]

I'm slow cooking up some chicken gizzards, which will be curried later in the day, and lentils added still later. I got the slow cooker recipe off the internet, and being a good portion Highland Scot, and the gizzards being inexpensive...well you know how tough that is to pass up sometimes...

I had to maneuver a lot to prevent the wife from finding out exactly what part of the chicken was going into the dish. She's my Valentine, but she's also a Suburban Girl like the women on Duck Dynasty...so the nice tender chicken meat from the pot will be fine as long as it isn't named.

She will eat venison, as long as I don't butcher the animal where she can see it...same with rabbit. She won't touch squirrel (leaves more for me and the offspring). :grin:

Gizzards, sliced up, with the internal, center portion removed... about 2 lbs.
Water to cover by about 2"
Tblspn of chopped garlic
Tblspn of onion powder
Tblspn of Sri-Racha sauce

Tblspn of curry powder after four hours (this I added to the recipe)

Slow cook for 6 hours...maybe 8 if the gizzards are still tough

When currying a dish and using lentils, I like to cook the lentils on the side, changing the water once, then add them about 20 minutes before serving. I like them intact, not mushed up. Navy beans would also probably work well, but they take longer to cook than lentils by far.

LD

 

[crockett]

Folks just don't understand being frugal. It's like you committed a crime if you wasted a cent.

 

[sidelock]

I love gizzards, livers and hearts fried, but my wife (although an otherwise gourmet cook [in the yankee sense]) hates "GUTS"
I like'em.

 

[tenngun]

If you read all the nasty (and mostly unforgivable)things Alden says about grits you have a moon cast shadow of my feelings about gizzards. I'm glad you like them, makes me feel at least they are not going to waste.
Sounds like a good dish, if'n ya all like eat'n guts

 

[Alden]

As grits are for the chickens, cows, sheep and swine of the land that eat 'em, so are their innards not meant for humans to knowingly consume. What special glee do unwashed masses take in eating livestock feed and compost fill? It's like a grammar shool cafeteria or internet challenge they want an award for -- "who can be the lowest-rent in the valley." I understand that in some regions that's an honor. Well...

I lose!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

So you nay sayers will not eat a link sausage with a natural casing, is that what I just heard you say? :haha:

They are, after all, encased in prepared guts.... :rotf:

LD

 

[Katahdin]

and Scrapple ( what/something meat) would be out of the question,fried, with Eggs over easy (half raw chicken embryos)grits with bacon drippings and butter to flavor,biscuts and gravy,,Eastern Shore Breakfast !!!!!! Delmarva Rt13,,,ah the great old days!!!!!

 

[tenngun]

:rotf: Oh darn I do eat sausage, scraple, haggis, sob stew, head cheese, think we have a theme here

 

[tenngun]

And Good Sir I have been known to wash :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Drive by comment.........

It's like a grammar school cafeteria

My school actually made good food ....REAL food not that factory made TV dinner type frozen, cook it in a microwave or speed oven stuff they force feed the kids today. They actually had a full time baker on staff that made real homemade bread every other day. among other things.

VROOOOOM!!!................

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Like 'em in giblet gravy but much prefer fryed livers. Those that a tendency to gout should avoid any offal as high cholesterol. So I go light on 'em. They're great at a camp out with rice and gravy though.

 

[crockett]

Alden- its not about the money.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Given that a zero waste steam is the goal of every meat processing facility,.......Your going to eat it all one way or another. :rotf:

Waste= filler= $$$$$$$ in the pocket.

 

[Alden]

OK, now we know who eats it BEFORE hand. So how many of you actually eat catfood AFTER it's been canned!?

:barf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

When I was a kid the neighbor girl would eat dry dog food right out of the bag. She liked it. :youcrazy:

 

[coloradoclyde]

OK, now we know who eats it BEFORE hand. So how many of you actually eat catfood AFTER it's been canned!?

:barf:

If they saw and smelled it before it was canned they would :barf:

 

[Alden]

When I was a kid the neighbor girl would eat dry dog food right out of the bag. She liked it. :youcrazy:

Yes, I've heard of people who have done this. One neighbor's dopey son did so with ketchup, I mean "catsup."

I did have beef liver with bacon and onions last weekend. With ketchup. Oh man! And too much -- for those of you who read Dick At Christmas, I took the poor guy out to an early dinner and the movies and gave him half my food to take home with my dessert...

 

[satx78247]

I still wish that I had the recipe for the "in house made" yeast rolls that our public school cafeteria used to make every school day when I was an elementary school student. = Those rolls were GREAT with butter & cheese.
(About 6 years ago, I was "an invited guest" at West Ward School for lunch with the teachers, when I visited the polling place & that school still made the rolls!)

yours, satx

 

[sidelock]

When I was a kid(about 1940) an old man in my area broke into the feed store and stole a 50 lb. bag of hog feed to feed his kids. His wife had died and he had no job. He was doin the best he could. don't remember the outcome, but it made an impression.

 

[sidelock]

My grandma Vandal made the best yeast rolls I have ever eaten. She had no refrigeration or water piped in and cooked on a wood stove all her life. Her table was always set 24/7 in case someone dropped in. THE SECOND BEST I HAVE EATEN was in an elk camp MADE BY ME baked in a reflector oven on a cold and snowy no hunt day about 1972 with elk tender loin, mashed taters and gravy and fried apple pies. YUM