Adventures with mammals.

[hannah]

Today after class I went to a local halal butcher shop to pick up some goat meat for later this week. When I was there, I asked if they sold cow tongues - which is why there's a nearly three-pound tongue sitting in the fridge right now.

Does anyone have any recipes for tongue? The only ones I have in my cookbooks either call for butter or lots of other kinds of meat, and since I'm cooking this for the first time I want to get a really good sense of its own taste and texture. There's always hitting the Internet up for what it's got, but I know roga at the very least has a favorite recipe - maybe someone else does, in which case I'd love to hear it.

The shop also had a liver, a heart, and a kidney - probably goat, from the size - sitting on the counter right behind the metal partition separating the customers from the meat, which is what happens when you're butchering the whole animal. Like the goat's head, which was over next to a sink. Just sitting there, without the context of a body. No skin, no horns, nothing but the bones and meat and one unblinking eye.

Comments

[euclase.livejournal.com]

i love that food and cooking is your math <3

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It helps pass the time, that's for sure. :D

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I've never eaten beef tongue that I know of (my best friend's crazy hippie ex-husband was fond of putting all kinds of weird things on the table for guests to eat and not telling them), but there are lots of recipes for it, all of which start with cleaning and boiling it:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100307194655AAgX2uL

Apparently a classic Mexican dish is tacos made with beef tongue and green salsa. Now that sounds pretty good!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Anything with green salsa sounds good - it's almost cheating that way.

Thanks for the link.

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

I've only had tongue marinated in the Asian fashion and then cooked and sliced thin. Extremely delicious, but I don't know if that's what you are after. If you are I will hook you up. <3

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good, actually - hook me up, please.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

If you'd like, I can look in Mr. N's mom's Sisterhood cookbook. I'm pretty sure there are some recipes there.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Yes, please!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Okay, sorry for the delay ... I have five recipes for tongue. They're all from the two older cookbooks. Would you like me to post them here or in my LJ?

:-D

[marialuminous.livejournal.com]

I don't know how they cook it, but my brother's in-laws make delicious beef tongue. Please let us know what you end up doing with it, and how it tastes. Now I am hungry for tongue too!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Will do.

[letters-in-sand.livejournal.com]

HEARTS AND KIDNEYS ARE TINKER TOYS!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Does that make liver Lincoln Logs?

[roga.livejournal.com]

I can ask my grandmother for her recipe, as I have only ever ever received the finished product and never participated in the making. I'll try to get a hold of her ASAP.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, please do!