General Chat

I know not to everyone’s taste but where has all the liver and kidneys etc gone? I actually like both but for ages have not seen either in Tesco other supermarkets may be better.

OH doesn't like it, so I rarely buy it any more, but I think they sell all sorts in Morrison's and I'm fairly sure I've seen chicken livers in the Coop. Our local butcher sells it too.

Maybe just Tesco then. Which is where I get my on line shop. I will have to look at the butchers in town although not something Infancy carrying on the bus.

sounds offal :-0 :-D

Island :-D :-D :-D

Ann, Tesco have both liver and kidneys on their online ordering site. I’ve had lamb’s liver from them though not recently.

What an Offal joke Island :-D :-D :-D.
I eat Offal and get mine at Aldi or Asda now my son is not a butcher :-D

I'll get me coat :-D

Island :-D :-D :-D

Tesco no longer does lamb hearts :-(

...as for sweetbreads - anywhere! ....nowhere :-( :-(

Lamb's liver (Fry as it's known in Oz) is readily available in most supermarkets. We both enjoy it as a 'treat' from time to time.

I also like tongue which is not always readily available; last week OH was out shopping and phoned me say that she had sourced some and did I want one. I said yes until she told me the price...$22.00 per kilo. The last one I bought from the same supplier, only a couple of months ago, was $9.00 per kilo.

I know that inflation is rife, but at the most recent price I'm sure someone is extracting the urine!

Island :-D :-D :-D

Must be Tesco suppliers but My puzzle is, what is happening to the livers and kidney if not appearing in the shops. Daughter has also had a problem finding any but I think she did eventually get some in Morrisons.

Ready Meals. Steak and kidney pie, liver and bacon hotpot, to name a couple that are available in Tesco's. Not to mention dog and cat food. :-)

sorry but the liver ready meal was not available this weekend. I tried!

To be honest, I have had both the liver ready meals in the past and the Tesco finest one is OK but the ordinary Tesco one the liver is over cooked for me, it should be almost pink in the middle and not cooked for too long.

My SIL knowing full well that her Brother hated offal cooked some for dinner for us, we ate everything else on the plate but left the offal she said we were ungrateful but she did it on purpose and we left it on purpose. revenge is sweet. :-D

We quite often used to have liver and onions in winter, and I would choose it from the menu from many of the small restaurants found in country places here. OH found it difficult in recent years though to find good calves liver. In the last 2 or 3 years, we also regularly bought frozen steak and kidney pies from a local butcher.

Like Allan, OH and I quite often bought tongue from the deli in the grocery store as a cold meat for salads in summer, although we neve cooked it ourselves. Mum cooked tongue when I was much younger, and I remember that Dad actually made a metal press to fit over a bowl so that she could press the cooked tongue.

We had roasted tongue with a gravy for dinner here a couple of weeks ago. Other offal is a no-no!

In our 'youff' - as agricultural labourers, ex and I regularly had stuffed ox heart for our Sunday roast. It was delicious :-D

...then a few weeks later, we'd have a pheasant or two!

The joys and contradictions of living in the country.

My Mum would often cook roast heart when I was young. I loved it.

I don't think I've ever tried heart. I used to buy liver for family meals, but haven't looked for it for ages, so I will check in the shops, when I'm shopping.
The smell of kidney cooking is unpleasant to me, although I'll eat it if served in a pie, but wouldn't choose it.
When a friend and I used to share a whole lamb bought direct from the farmer, I always gave her the kidneys.

A friend felt that her children ought to eat liver at family meals, but they disliked it when she served it. Time for a rethink.
Cut thinly in strips and stir-fried with vegetables and called Chinese meat, they always asked for more :-D

I love kidneys but am also noy keen on the smell when they are cooking. Still also have not seen those in Tesco although pre Covid often used to buy them. I looked in quite a large butcher's display today in town, all sorts of meat but no liver.

True story ...............

Daughter would eat liver somewhat unwillingly when we made it. OH was the cook back then, and she always asked for "just a small piece, Dad".

In her last year of high school, she had a part in a play, Pride and Prejudice. They had rehearsals going late into the evening as it came close to opening night. The school had a boarding house at the time, and the actors and actresses were allowed to eat dinner there. It was incidentally an all girls school and the actors were from the "brother school".

Daughter arrived home late in the evening, and her first words were ..................

"We had liver for dinner and it was MUCH better than yours, Dad" :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

If I remember correctly, it had been fried, when OH usually made a casserole.