wow. you ever cook BEEF TRIPE?
 

coming back from a short trip. i got the hankering for some pizza. stopped at a local place in Cloverdale. sorta fancy.

ordered a pizza, and some wine. just to let the road stress fade away. i hear my wife ask the waitress.."what's up with this braise tripe dish?" the lady clearly didnt know anything about it..so my wife did the only thing she does.."we'll try it"

i wont butcher the italian name of the dish out of respect. i kinda forgot it. but it was good. no barn flavors. i can best describe it as a pasta dish, with the tripe as the noodles. my wife threw down and bet me i cant make it. (it's a thing i do..to try to reverse eng a dish)

i only googled how to clean the tripe. which should be outlawed during drought season. i used a lot of water!! the guy at the Mexican store giggled at me buying only 2 lbs (es todo?)..he said the ladies buy LOTS at a time.

it was weird cooking it. i winged it. i served it up last night to the wife. served it up with a lightly fried egg on top, parm cheese..toasted bread toast from a local joint. not a thing i'll do often. the smell is off putting during the cooking. but it certianly isnt the fear-factor food my neighbor thought when he asked me if i was boiling my laundry. the old coot!

Back in the day I traveled a couple times a year for work, it was a volunteer thing... there was an older guy at work and whenever he traveled I would volunteer to go, he was a dentist in WWII, worked with Eames, spoke three or four languages, a gourmet, super cool dude.

We were in Boston and doing our typical bar crawl and looking for food... stumbled into a dim sum joint... very little English was spoken so we just pointed at stuff on the carts as they went by... I ended up with a bowl of tripe (mind you I am very adventitious with food but tripe would be on the bottom of the list) long story short it was delicious!

Ever had Scrod?
A way of preparing Cod up in the New England states.
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A fellow was being sent to that region on a business trip and his colleague, who was raised there, suggested that he try Scrod at one of the finer restaurants.
On the way from the airport to his hotel, the fellow tapped the taxi driver on the shoulder, asking, "Do you know where a fella can get Scrod around here?"
The driver said, "You know, I've heard the question a thousand times before, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."
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I have zero doubt there are many nutritious and delicious foods available in this great country. I have eaten some unusual foods in my life. I learned long ago I personally dislike organ meats. My mom tried to serve us beef tongue, brains, and tripe. I disliked all of them.

There is just a near infinite variety of foods I do really like. Why eat tripe, liver or other foods I don't care for when I can have prime rib instead.

there's an ass for every seat.

i love how everyone is different. there is just some stuff i wont eat..nothing i wont try. i also learned that i NEVER knock anyone's food choice. no EWWWW sounds or scrunched up faces. i think it makes someone feel bad that they do like a dish.

i dont love tripe..but i can eat it. for me it is better than anything mickyD can come up with..:)

I cook the German version of the dish. It is called "Kutteln" - which would translate to "guts"! It is based on a roux and usually has vinegar giving it a nice hefty taste. Unfortunately no connoisseurs that appreciate this dish in my family, so largely it is for myself. I usually get the tripe for it at Ranch 99 or the local mexican market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saure_Kutteln

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Don't think I've ever had Tripe...but I'd walk a few miles to have organic chicken liver 'n onions.

did you say if was any good?

jenifer lopez severed it to jane fonda in monster in law.

Menudo... breakfast of champions when you have a hangover:

https://norecipes.com/menudo

I was road tripping with a friend and we stopped in Bakersfield at a Basque restaurant, apparently you order one main dish and then they bring you a bunch of side dishes... one dish was paper thin slices of meat in a vinaigrette... it was pretty good... we asked the waitress what it was... "oh that is tongue."

On the taco thread I mentioned a local chain 'King Taco', very authentic and you can get just about any part of the critter on a tortilla.

Tripe Face Boogie....that's all I know about it :)

Back in my single days I learned to NEVER turn down other people's cooking. If they were eating it, I could too. Some were great cooks and I went for seconds and begged for leftovers to take with me. Some were horrible cooks and I ate as much as an anorexic model and lied my ass off and said it was good, but I was just not feeling hungry.

One lady I dated was Italian and her mom was right out of central casting for an Italian grandmother. She did not speak much English but that lady could cook. She would put something in front of me and say something in Italian and it was always wonderful. I had to resist licking the plate since my mom taught me it was bad table manners. I would weigh 400 pounds if she was my mom.

I had one chick I dated serve me what she called tuna casserole. I am pretty sure it was cat food. It was horrid. It was tough to get a second fork-worth down. Blech.

And yes I dated a lot of different women. I did not get married until I was 38. 22 years of the catch and release program is a lot of fishing in the ocean of women. Only a few relationships got to the meet the relatives stage.

My mother used to try to 'force me' to eat tripe, Dad liked it.

I spent quite a few evenings looking at a plate of tripe until bedtime, refusing to eat it.

One of the more abusive things a parent can do to a child, IMO.
Force them to eat what they don't care for.
My g/f has stories about this kind of treatment. Bad news!!!

Was at a Mexican restaurant. I like and ordered my usual Carne Asada. My brother saw a patron eating what looked like a huge bowl of stew. It was Menudo. He only ate a couple of bites. Said it was too chewy. But he didn't eat any besides the first couple of bites.

I've eaten it in menudo and fried over nachos from one of the local Mexican places. That's about as far as I'm going to go. I'm not into organ meats and definitely not "offal".

King Taco aint what it used to be, but still pretty darn good.

I am like Vash, will try anything, once. I am not a big fan of guts. This family lived across the street used to go hunting every season. One year, they brought back some bear paw for my mother :eek:. She freaked when dad opened up the bag. They just hacked off the paws and stuffed it into a bag. It was some delicacy according to them. In the trash it went. None of us want it or knew what to do with it. I remember seeing it as a kid and was pretty grossed out with some of the fur still attached to it.

Edit, anyone know what to do with it or had it?

I make Menudo.

The secret to Tripe is to soak it in water with some Vinegar for awhile. It gets rid of the Tripey taste and smell.

I like Beef Tongue..Lengua..and have Crock Potted it. pealing off the skin...it taste like juicy beef. what a revelation.

Chicken Livers and even beef liver upon occasion...I like chicken livers in stuffing.

I like Head Cheese and Blood Tongue...Liver wurst.

I just can not bring myself to try Sessos...cow brains. nix on that one.

Went to a Safari Club International dinner where one of the entrees was Bear Meatloaf. You have to cook Bear meat like pork, well done because of Trichinosis. It was good.

WTF do you do with the Paw? That sound interesting and love to have a taste.

I don't think I can get myself to eat live octopus like the Koreans. I wouldn't eat sushi. Tried it and just dislike it