Object Dart

I know I’ve been harping on about food prices a lot lately. But it’s your best interests I have at heart. Which made me think, you know, I could buy a heart from the local New World, and show them how to cook that.

Then I thought, where do these stupid ideas come from?

So instead I settled for liver. “EEESH” I hear you say, “Who’d eat that crap?!” Well, if you’re worried about food prices then you should. Not only is liver one of the cheapest meats outside of eating insects, it’s also highly nutritious. On my recent trip to Auckland I had liver cooked in cream, and that is pretty damn good and rich.

Another good reason to eat offal is that if you’re Green enough to care, but not Green enough to give up meat, then you should consciously eat more and different portions. The great crime of C21st factory farming is that it allowed consumers to start eating their favourite portions only. Not only is this an inefficient use of a living animal, but its limiting the great opportunities you have to sample a variety of terrific flavours. And a good liver, cooked till it’s fluffy is truly great.

So, what will you need? Here I have a bank-breaking 260g of liver coming in at $2.14.

There’s also 400g of bacon costing $4.16. I’ll only use 100g of that, so it’s costing me $1.04.

Then I’ll use a couple of onions, and a dash of sherry. All up that’s less than $5 to put meat on the table for two.

Otherwise, the meal will include sauerkraut, polenta, and some broccoli.

That’s right, this dish will be everything you every hated eating as a kid.

Heh. (more…)