(no subject)

[gothwalk]

I have suddenly decided that I want steak and kidney pie. I have no idea where this came from, unless it's connected with the feeling of autumn and the vague desire for beef stew. Mmm, stew. Might try making some on Sunday.

Comments

[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Steak and kidney pie. I had a friend who adored kidney pie. Being an American, I am squeemish about organ "meats". Does it really taste good?

David, who usually will try everything twice because it may not be prepared well the first time. But seriously considered doing away with this policy after trying chitterlings for the second time.

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

Mmm ... now I'm thinking of blowing off doing bills at lunch and forming a ragtag band to head over to the pub.

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

mmm. stew. i once made stew completely from scratch -- beef and barley stew, flavoured with Irish whiskey. it was so worth the effort.

[MMMOMMM!! i'm goin' over to gothwalk's house fer dinner on Sundy kay bye!!]

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I like more steak and less kidney, I have to admit. And getting me to eat liver was a task that none of my relatives ever felt up to. Kidney's not bad, though - bit tangy, almost like it was spiced, but still basically tastes like beef.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I wish I had *time* for that. But I'll be in late today, and relying on all you folks to entertain me.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my stews are also scratch made (I had stew froma tin once. Never again. Less appetising than dogfood, it was). Family tradition of good stews - I know it goes back three generations, and probably a long way further - on both sides. I can even persuade people like olethros to eat turnips in a stew. As long as he can convince himself it's really potato. :)

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

ooo poor Drew. Ok, what would you like as entertainment? Drunken debauchery? Lots of quiz taking? Excessive posting about everything we're up to today?

Coz if the last, I'll have to relate the oh so interesting conversation I just had about whether September 11th should be a national holiday. Urgh.

[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

Rupert loves that stuff. I wasn't brave enough to try it, silly me. :-) There was all sorts of weird things at buffet tables when I was in the UK that I would poke at dubiously and ask what they were. I'm a baby.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Anything at all. :) The more text on my screen, the happier I'll be.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

This from a woman whose native country has people in it who eat okra? :)

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Homemade stews... you could make some for me. You could be my friend.

Of course, I'd have to be in Ireland at the time, but that is a small obstacle for real stew. I love the stew they served at the Porterhouse Pub while I was there- an Irish stew made with lae. Tres happy was I.

Enjoy your steak and kidney, though. :)

[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

Okra is a vegetable, not internal organ meat. You people are warped.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Have you seen okra? That's like alien internal organs.

Besides, we've almost stopped eating sweetbreads.

Re:

[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah... it is all slimy and mucousy and stuff but it's still a vegetable, theorectically speaking...

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced. And while we're at it, the inside of a pumpkin? That's scary stuff.

[microgirl.livejournal.com]

I want steak-and-kidney pie too. Hell, I just want food! *starving*

But I must say, I have never noticed a tang about kidney, though I've only ever had it in steak-and-kidney, so maybe it's different fried with onions and wine or something.

As for liver, oh man, it's just the best! Admittedly, it can be a bit of an acquired taste, but then so's Guinness. Just a couple of things though: 1) only ever get lamb's liver. Pork and beef just aren't nice. 2) Tomato and bacon flavours complement it very, very well, to the extent that I don't think it should be eaten without them. Fry some strips of liver up with garlic, mushrooms, onions, herbs, red wine, rasher strips and chopped tomato (fresh plum tomato for preference), serve with rice and I tell you, there's little better :)

I also guarantee you that if you ever get to the state of poverty me or my mum have been in at times, you will be very, very glad of liver. €1 will buy you enough for four meals.

The perils of education

[cheerfulcynic.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was learning what the liver and kidneys do, I thought it was absolutely revolting. However, I will still happily eat kidneys (yum devilled kidneys, kidney on toast, steak and kidney) but not liver, which is odd because I think what the kidneys do is ickier. Nor tripe (my uncle and grandmother used to eat it raw).

My poverty food has always been cheap rice and tinned tuna.