Thoughts on corned beef ; Satan's dung or wholesome old fashioned f ayre??

[moondog]

Am at veritable culinary crossroads....

now what abotu tripe

lambs harts have to have all the white veiny bits cut so that they done shrink too much when cooked.
You also have to turn them inside out to clean them.

Stuff them with sgae and onion stuffing.

I could have made a cowboys rodeo saddle with the ones I cooked. I barely even cut it with a bread knife!!
My mum cooks them perfectly though.

Snort at the saddle and chorizo hash as a faux working class meal.It's like that apocryphaltale of Mandelson thinking mushy peas were guacamole.

Just musing Sal.
No corned beef in Turkey but was remembering that hash is bloody good and I bet the kids would love it.

MI corned beef tins have rounded corners - and still have little keys. FAR superior to anyhting opened with a ring pull.

I thought it was called corned beef because it was originally imported corn-fed beef from the ranches of Argentina. Wonderful stuff in a sandwich with good hot mustard- and you can actually see the bits of proper meat, so not 'bits'.

moondog - yes, i pmsl when making it - as i long to make corned beef hash but just cant quite do it.

i ate tripe once and remember liking it...
i do have a father who eats all sorts of disgusting crap though

oh bugger it
i might making corned beef hash next week )

Turks love tripe soup.
They have special shops that sell it.Tis supposed to be a good hangover cure.

I couldn't do with black pudding.
Blood sausage??!!!

That is so spine chilling.

corned beef - YUK, unless pregnant and then a corned beef sandwich with tomato ketchup is lush!

tripe, black pudding, white pudding, they are delicacies for my dad.....

Am thinking that tripe would be lovely and gelatinous and chewy in the way the Chinese like.

Love yuor way with words Sal.
I remember my parents buying a (butchered pig)
My mother wrestled with a pig's head and an axe for a whole afternoon
('Split you bastard,just split!!')
because she wanted top make brawn.

Very nice it was too.

i think we should all do delia's corned beef hash and report back

Oh yuck, our local butcher sells pigs trotters, 20 for £1 what a bargain!

Does anyone else have grandparents who eat 'dripping' on toast and consider it a treat?

I'd go with a trotter (and in fact do)than some scary reformed ham,which iswhat most of the plastic packedstuff is.

Remember,monkfish was sold as catfood 20 years ago as noone would touch it.

So...jury still out on CB then???

Old Delia is very precise about how to cut your corned beef up, isn't she??!!

Just chop it up and shove it in a bowl for god's sake!!!

my mother used to boil up pigs trotters and head and make brawn as well - I got to pick the meat off the bones for her...

it was also yum

''By KBear on Thursday, 24 August, 2006 4:44:19 PM

I live in a road that locals used to call "corned beef alley" because it was where the richer people lived during the war and they mysteriously never got bombed. Anyway,,,, I digress... ''

Surely thats because the rich people live near lovely parks and fields, and the poor people live in cheaper housing built around factories/mines/city centres etc which is a much better target!

Baked beans.
I feel like vomiting every time they are even mentioned.

Bleurghhh