1 husband, 2 kids (12 and 7) and I am in charge of the kitchen. I cook all meals (I like doing it) and like a lot of people I am feeling the pinch when it comes to food costs.
I have been looking into ways of cutting back on how much I spend at the supermarket and one of the major costs seems to be meat. I do tend to buy what's on offer and am not adverse to slow cooking but it still seems a lot of money so I have started fitting in a couple of vegetarian meals during the week.
I noticed though that lambs liver is not expensive (£1.70 for 450g).
I have horrid memories of liver and as a child it was the one thing I would refuse BUT I believe that was because it was always overcooked and was always made into a massive drama. AIBU to find a recipe which would allow me to serve Lambs liver (I say lambs because it seems to have the least livery taste) without actually telling my kids what it is they are having until they have eaten it?
AIBU?
Aibu re Lambs Liver?
CocacolaMum · 18/11/2013 11:53
Fry it off with onions, throw it in the slow cooker with a pint of beef oxo stock for the day then thicken with bisto/cornflour just before serving.
Bloody lovely. I always make a huge slow cooker full then freeze portions of it in takeaway cartons. For some reason when its re cooked it goes lovely and soft and is nicer still.
I eat all offal, including brains - which I love fried in butter - except for tripe and chitterlings. Tripe is bland and I don't like the texture. Too smooth.
Chitterlings are fried intestines. I ordered them in a restaurant famous for its offal because I'd never tried them. Chewy. Not very nice. Like battered rubber. It wasn't bad cooking because the rest of their food is good.
I did like a thing I ate in Italy once which is milk-fed calf's intestines with rigatoni in a tomato sauce. The intestines and the pasta are cut to the same length and the same colour so you can't tell them apart until you taste them. I think it's meant to be a visual joke.
It sounds disgusting but it was really nice. I'd never have ordered it on my own - someone else insisted I tried it. I've just googled it - it's called veal pajata.
And the only good thing about the temperature dropping today is that I'm going to eat hearts stewed in red wine with carrots and then sliced on creamy mash. And the hearts are going to cost about 60p each. One per person, or one-and-half for DH.
I always do it as a macabre Valentine's dinner And so much cheaper than going out on that night.
juice lots of people don't like kidneys. I do but my BIL swears he can taste the wee in them. Never noticed it myself. Maybe it's true or maybe it's a connection he can't get out of his head.
Sorry. That sounded really know-all over chitterlings. I'm sure people don't need me to tell them what they are; it's just that I'd never heard of them before that night.
And I never want to hear of them again
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it did not go well...
I really liked it, 7yr old liked it after she had drowned it in sauce, ds ate it begrudgingly but when OH got home he zapped his in the microwave and took 1 mouthful before declaring that he really did hate it and didn't eat any more.. the only meal in our 11yrs together he has ever refused point blank to eat. 
for afters I had put frozen berries in a dish, topped with a sponge batter and baked for half hour which was served with ice cream. That went down a lot better
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