[gypsy]

Tripe, eaten at a Lancashire market stall, cold with loads of salt pepper and vinegar. I do not like the traditional tripe and onions very much but can manage to eat it.

[GrannieAnnie]

I'm not a great lover of offal, but Brian loves liver, kidneys and hearts.  So I will eat them when he wants them for a change.

We collected our latest piggy today, and our friend said do you want some liver? No one apart from me likes it.  So we came home with a huge bag of liver, the kidneys and Brian wanted the head so I can make him some brawn.  Thing is, we've still got the one from last year in the freezer.  I keep putting the job off as its a bit of fuffing around!

But I suppose I will have to get round to doing it as the freezers are bursting at the seams again! 

Can you freeze brawn?

He likes tripe too, but I refuse to have the stuff in the house.  You got to draw the line somewhere!

[8doubles]

If the brawn is pressed and gelatine kept to a minimum it may freeze ok.
The jelly would probably be destroyed in the process which IMO would be a plus as i remove it before eating anyways.

[gypsy]

He likes tripe too, but I refuse to have the stuff in the house.  You got to draw the line somewhere!

The tripe that I buy is washed and whatever else happens to it, cooked and cut into nice looking portions so it is as easy as buying a slice of boiled ham.

[gypsy]

Is tongue offal?
I like it when I buy it from Tesc* but have only cooked it once and it was not a success.

[Growster...]

I've never thought tripe was offal, Gypsy, but maybe it is something in the same 'class'!

By the way, are you from Pendle or thereabouts?

If so, see my post about the local pub!

[wighty]

We 'have to got Parents in Law' on Boxing Day  for lunch, the choice is tongue or gammon, I can't stand either, I take some fish fingers and am the least popular person around the dinner table. You'd think after 15    years they'd get the message but every year it's always 'oh I forgot'.

[gypsy]

I've never thought tripe was offal, Gypsy, but maybe it is something in the same 'class'!

By the way, are you from Pendle or thereabouts?

If so, see my post about the local pub!

Where? Which pub?

[Squibbs]

We fight over the duck and chicken livers and hearts in our house. Cockerel testes have a very strong taste not to my liking and I have never tasted cocks comb - maybe next time.

I wouldn't have thought lamb shanks was offal - I suppose it woud depend on your definition.

I wouldn't eat any neural tissue (brains and spinal cord) otherwise I would try anything once - though once was definitely enough for haggis - yeuch!
 

[Growster...]

I've never thought tripe was offal, Gypsy, but maybe it is something in the same 'class'!

By the way, are you from Pendle or thereabouts?

If so, see my post about the local pub!

Where? Which pub?

Here it is Gypsy!

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=112538.0

Do you know it?