Winner, Winner Liver Dinner

2lumpy · Wednesday at 9:15 PM

Sorry, I ate it all.

ridgetops · Thursday at 5:59 AM

What's that in the upper right hand corner of the pan? It looks like a butthole.

sticksender · Thursday at 6:38 AM

Might be a piece of heart thrown in there.

2lumpy · Thursday at 9:53 AM

ridgetops said:
What's that in the upper right hand corner of the pan? It looks like a butthole.

It is, good eye ridge. I fry them up out of respect. It represents mule deer management in the west.

mata · Thursday at 11:18 AM

It looks good, but now all I can see is the butt hole!

2lumpy · Thursday at 11:29 AM

mata said:
It looks good, but now all I can see is the butt hole!

Thanks mata, that means a lot to me. It means my message is resonating.

DeerHunter53 · Saturday at 2:38 PM

Ahhh liver and onions after the kill, fresh. Doesn't get any better than that Lumpy
Always a favorite in my Dads camp lots of onions

2lumpy · Saturday at 3:01 PM

DeerHunter53 said:
Ahhh liver and onions after the kill, fresh. Doesn't get any better than that Lumpy
Always a favorite in my Dads camp lots of onions

Your Dad was a wise man 53. An old time outfitter from Callbran, Colorado had me add sautéed mushrooms to the mix. I must say, since then the mushrooms have never hurt a near perfect meal.

Trix4me · Saturday at 7:53 PM

DeerHunter53 said:
Ahhh liver and onions after the kill, fresh. Doesn't get any better than that Lumpy
Always a favorite in my Dads camp lots of onions

I liked to fry up some bacon then cook the liver, onions and mushrooms in the grease. The non liver eaters were ticked cause I was wasting bacon

2lumpy · Saturday at 7:59 PM

Every thing’s better with bacon. You still save bacon grease Trix4you.

2lumpy · Saturday at 8:02 PM

Had a friend and his wife over for dinner tonight. His wife and I eat liver, with onions and mushrooms, I barbecued fillet for my wife and ribeye for her husband. Everyone was happy happy happy.

DeerHunter53 · 2024-10-27T09:37:21-0600

2lumpy said:
Your Dad was a wise man 53. An old time outfitter from Callbran, Colorado had me add sautéed mushrooms to the mix. I must say, since then the mushrooms have never hurt a near perfect meal.

The mushroom part I haven't done but nothing tastes better in deer camp than fresh liver and onions. Also means someone got lucky

DeerHunter53 · 2024-10-27T09:39:52-0600

2lumpy said:
Had a friend and his wife over for dinner tonight. His wife and I eat liver, with onions and mushrooms, I barbecued fillet for my wife and ribeye for her husband. Everyone was happy happy happy.

Definitely an acquired taste those who eat liver and onions probably ate it from an early age like me

eelgrass · 2024-10-27T10:14:43-0600

Don't ask me why but ever since I was a kid we've always sliced up the liver and soaked it overnight in milk. Even the old timers at the hunting club did it.

sourkraut · 2024-10-27T10:21:03-0600

One of my favorite meals! Can't understand the soaking in milk

2lumpy · 2024-10-27T10:45:35-0600

eelgrass said:
Don't ask me why but ever since I was a kid we've always sliced up the liver and soaked it overnight in milk. Even the old timers at the hunting club did it.

sourkraut said:
One of my favorite meals! Can't understand the soaking in milk

It removes some of the strong taste. The milk draws the blood out of the liver. Salt water will as well……. So….. if one is good, two must be better. I do both but I use cultured butter milk if there is any available.

I have used milk on version, elk, deer, moose and caribou. Soak it over night in the fridge.

elkantlers · 2024-10-27T10:58:05-0600

I soak liver in Milk also. I know it pulls out blood because the milk looks like strawberry milk when I dump it out.

Trix4me · 2024-10-27T12:57:56-0600

On several occasions (years ago) I ordered liver at Lamb’s Cafe in downtown SLC. Several people in our group made some serious groans and grimaces.

2lumpy · 2024-10-27T13:55:16-0600

Trix4me said:
On several occasions (years ago) I ordered liver at Lamb’s Cafe in downtown SLC. Several people in our group made some serious groans and grimaces.

You know you done good then.

I used to order liver at cafe/restaurants quite often but as its popularity faded away, I started to notice a change in quality/taste. (Old liver don’t sound very appetizing.) Then I got sick after eating a cafe liver dinner and that finished my eating liver except at my home or someone else’s, that I trust. Also, I only eat deer liver now. If I could get it year round eat it once a week. As a substitute I now eat McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, with extra onions.

eelgrass · 2024-10-27T16:41:13-0600

Beef liver and onions was a staple at our house when I was a kid. I suspect it was because it was inexpensive. We ate a lot of hamburger too but I don't remember ever eating a steak. A beef roast on special occasions. We ate chicken livers and gizzards too. My mom loved both. My dad used to say "we're just trying to keep you alive, not fatten you up."

2lumpy · 2024-10-27T17:10:25-0600

eelgrass said:
Beef liver and onions was a staple at our house when I was a kid. I suspect it was because it was inexpensive. We ate a lot of hamburger too but I don't remember ever eating a steak. A beef roast on special occasions. We ate chicken livers and gizzards too. My mom loved both. My dad used to say "we're just trying to keep you alive, not fatten you up."

It was a different time then eel. I suspect your, parents, like mine were young marrieds in the 1930’s, they knew what lean times were and how to survive.

I don’t care for chicken liver, it’s too crumbly and dry for me, but gizzards and chicken hearts are a delight. Lov’em, Flying J gas stations used to have them on their hot food counter but after Pilot bought them out, the whole company went to crap!

eelgrass · 2024-10-27T20:33:28-0600

2lumpy said:
It was a different time then eel. I suspect your, parents, like mine were young marrieds in the 1930’s, they knew what lean times were and how to survive.

I don’t care for chicken liver, it’s too crumbly and dry for me, but gizzards and chicken hearts are a delight. Lov’em, Flying J gas stations used to have them on their hot food counter but after Pilot bought them out, the whole company went to crap!

My brother 2lumpy! We would have been best buds back in the day.

2lumpy · 2024-10-27T20:52:49-0600

eelgrass said:
My brother 2lumpy! We would have been best buds back in the day.

A greater power knew better eel… really!!

eelgrass · 2024-10-27T20:57:16-0600

2lumpy said:
It was a different time then eel. I suspect your, parents, like mine were young marrieds in the 1930’s, they knew what lean times were and how to survive.

Yep, my mom came to California from Kansas during the depression and my dad came from Oklahoma during the same time frame. They met in the little town of Hilmar, CA. They got married right after WWII.

2lumpy · 2024-10-27T21:18:07-0600

Here’s a couple of different old time food that all the folk that I grew up with ate in the fall and winter. Do you recognize them from these photos?

Both had rather unappetizing names but it never seem to bother anybody but us kids.