Category: Offal

3rd September 2013

Tripes à la mode de Maitre Marcel

It takes guts to eat guts. Many people frown upon, or worse, the idea of eating an animal’s innards. In my family we would occasionally eat liver or blood sausage but that was the limit. Heart, brain, kidney, stomach or tripes were at best for the dog. Just to say that I am not a born amateur of offal. (Which derives from the Dutch/Germanic word […]

Beef Main dish Offal

1st March 2013

Liver with onions

Liver is rich in minerals such as iron and calcium and vitamins A, D, E and K, as well as the B vitamins. But it is also rich in cholesterol and purines so you should not eat it too often. The combination of liver and onion can be found in Italy, France, Britain, the Netherlands and elsewhere. One of the many uses of onion is […]

Main dish Offal Sausages

27th February 2013

Blood sausage with apple and onion

There are people who do not like to eat offal and they would find the idea of eating blood disgusting. I would say they are missing out on something. Blood used to symbolise vigour and, according to some books about these periods as they did not keep records themselves at the time, warriors in long-flown times used to drink the blood of beaten rivals. Blood […]

Offal Poultry

27th November 2012

Skewered chicken liver with Jerusalem artichoke mash

The hazards of going to the market in November. There are many root vegetables available, among which some lesser known ones like the Jerusalem artichoke. A strange name as it has nothing to do with Jerusalem and it is not an artichoke although the taste has some similarities. It is the root of a kind of sunflower, found in America, and some say the Italian […]

Main dish Offal Veal

20th November 2012

Veal liver with onions and garlic

Liver is slightly controversial. Not everybody likes the taste, not everybody likes to eat offal. Yet liver is the best kind of offal you can get and veal liver is tender and delicious. Liver is a source of proteins with low fat, it has vitamins A C D, B2 B5 B6 B12 as well as vital mineral salts such as copper, phosphorus, iron and zinc. […]