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So you take a tip from a mner and end up with a 2.5 kilo heart sat in your kitchen

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 18:58

"They are quite big" said the butcher when I ordered it, all full of optimisim after the cheap beef cuts thread.

Well she wasn't bloody wrong.

Just look at the huge offally bastard.

Tonight I am going to attempt to turn half of it into a ragu, but after that, well I'm open to suggestions.

Google post heart purchase says that even slow cooked it's not very nice. No wonder it only cost 4 quid.

Cook or feed to the dog?

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 18:59

playo vet riding a unicorn is for scale purposes

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thisisyesterday · 09/11/2011 19:00

ewww that is nasty!

sorry, i shouldn't really have clicked on this, being a vegetarian n all! lol

still, £4 is great, and if it is actually nice then you're onto a winner

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RealityIsADistantMemory · 09/11/2011 19:00

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belgo · 09/11/2011 19:00

Grin love the playmobil

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belgo · 09/11/2011 19:01

I dissected a pig's heart for biology class years ago.

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belledechocchipcookie · 09/11/2011 19:01

I'd feed it to the dog (or dissect it and use it for a biology lesson). There's no way I'd eat that, sorry.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 19:03

£4 for 2.5 kg and nice will be the biggest meat bobby bargain of the century.
Train of thought was it's a muscle right, any old scraggy slow cooked muscle comes up trumps. Apparently not so much with the heart. No fat in it.

Grin @ snow white's step mother

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Hassled · 09/11/2011 19:04

I think tonight is the night your DCs get an important lesson in anatomy. I don't know how old they are but this may well be their pathway to G&T in Science. Treat it as laboratory material, identify the left ventricle, and then the dog gets lucky.

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vixsatis · 09/11/2011 19:04

To make a v unhelpful comment, lambs' hearts are nicer.

However, the purchase was worth it for the photo alone- the playmobile person looks as though it will deal with the thing. I would be inclined to freeze the other half for another day, then cook it incredibly slowly with loads of carrots, onions and celery in red wine. Try adding a curl of orange peel or a squeeze of orange juice.

Should turn out ok

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MissTinaTeaspoon · 09/11/2011 19:06

That is the most surreal picture I've seen in a long time Grin

Sorry, I've got no useful heart cooking advice being veggie but you made me Smile

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vixsatis · 09/11/2011 19:06

You could do very educational scientific activities, then cook it

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Sparklingbrook · 09/11/2011 19:08

I took a tip from a fellow mner and ended up making a yummy Marmalade cake. I must have struck lucky. Grin

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TrinityRhino · 09/11/2011 19:09

that is a very obscure picture lol

dp would love to have that

I on the other hand would not

dp would make a stew with it and love every single bit of it

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HerdOfTinyElephants · 09/11/2011 19:12

Lambs' hearts are yummy when slow cooked. Beef hearts are larger (as you've found) and hence more tricky, but I see no reason they shouldn't also be yummy.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 19:13

vixsatis, cannot freeze it as it came to me frozen. So need to cook it all in the next day or so, or give to dog.

hassled yy am v excited about rediscovering bicuspid and tricuspid valves. On the g&t front there is little hope as upon revealing the organ with "this is a cow's heart" dd1 (7) asked "what is it then?" Hmm

er "a cow's heart"

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QuintessentialShadow · 09/11/2011 19:15

I have never before seen a heart with a playmobile jesus riding on a unicorn.

Have a heart!


(oh no, you have got one. No, scrap that, you have TWO)

pmsl

sorry

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 19:17

hahaha QS

and that's not jesus but the lady vet with stethoscope [contextually appropriate]

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tabulahrasa · 09/11/2011 19:17

Has the playmobile person got a stethoscope? If they can't tell from there whether it's beating or not I can't really see that helping?

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activate · 09/11/2011 19:17

surely you need to buy other meats and use it to pad out pies and the like

look at the all the veins and stuff though

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thisisyesterday · 09/11/2011 19:19

slubber... you can cook it and then freeze

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 19:20

yup activate, that was part of the plan, to chop it up and add it to stuff. But can't refreeze it again raw sadly.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/11/2011 19:20

yes can cook and freeze but cook it how? Slow braised method was the plan but Guardian man said no. not nice.

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CaptainMartinCrieff · 09/11/2011 19:22

I feel sick Blush

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