My latest attempt at cooking offal was inspired by this recipe from The Paleo Mom. I went with her suggestion to use lamb kidneys, and I’m glad I did because their flavor was mild. Kidneys are rich in iron, vitamin C, selenium, and vitamin B-12. They also contain significant amounts of other B vitamins, vitamin ...Read More
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Beef/Bacon/Liver Burgers
Today’s post in my series on organ meats uses bison liver from US Wellness Meats. However, you can use any other type of liver if you wish. Liver contains high levels of retinol (preformed vitamin A). This type of vitamin A is ready to be used by the body, unlike beta-carotene, which the body must ...Read More
Lengua Tacos
Today’s installment of my exploration of organ meats features: cow tongue! I used beef tongue from US Wellness Meats. Eating beef tongue is a part of eating “nose-to-tail”. Making sure that none of the animal goes to waste is more ethical than eating only your favorite parts and discarding the rest. Beef tongue contains folate, ...Read More
Beef Head Cheese
This post in my series on organ meats isn’t actually a recipe, it’s more of a review. We tried this beef head cheese from US Wellness Meats. Whenever I hear the words “head cheese”, I think of this passage about butchering a hog from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book Little House in the Big Woods: Ma ...Read More
Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Livers
Today’s post in my series on organ meats uses Free Range Chicken Livers from US Wellness Meats. Chicken livers contain high levels of retinol (preformed vitamin A). This type of vitamin A is ready to be used by the body, unlike beta-carotene, which the body must convert to retinol before use. Liver is also high ...Read More
Braunschweiger Spread
For the second installment in my series on organ meats, I decided to try braunschweiger from US Wellness Meats. Braunschweiger is a sausage made with meat and liver, and can be either beef or pork. Liver is one of the world’s most nutrient dense foods. It contains a lot of vitamin A, and it is ...Read More
I ❤️ Bacon Burgers
For the first recipe in my exploration of organ meats I decided to use beef heart. It seemed appropriate so close to Valentine’s Day. The heart is a muscle, although it has a stronger flavor and denser texture than other muscle meats. It is very lean, which makes it higher in protein than some other ...Read More
Organ Meats: Does Offal Have to be Awful?
Eating organ meats is an important part of the ancestral health movement. Whether they’re paleo, primal, or clean-eating keto, nearly anyone who advocates eating according to our bodies’ biological needs rather than eating what industrial agriculture and flawed nutritional guidelines push at us will say that everyone should be eating organ meats. Historically, organ meats ...Read More