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Did a search for lambs liver in recipes without much luck (mainly got alcohol damage related comments  :) ). OH on protein diet but I still think there must be something other than poor man's stroganoff  or fried with bacon that I can cook.

For instance is there some kind of f*g**t that I could make?

my OH's mum cooked us a loverly liver and bacon casserole when they last visited (although I don't have an actual recipe for it, it's just the usual brown the meat and onions, chop some root veg, sling in the oven with some good stock kind of a thing, very tasty though!)

Have been thinking about doing this Lambs Liver Stroganoff when the Mrs is away - she doesn't like Liver  ::)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2008/10/18/sm_deliasmith.xml

Thanks Norfolklass but because of the 'protein only', veg isn't allowed  :)

RE liver stroganoff: I made up the recipe at university back in the mid-70's. I just took the beef stroganoff from Good Housekeeping and changed it to meet our budge, but I used yoghourt and a bit of brown sugar because creme fraiche was more expensive. Delia keeps stealing my best recipes and publicising them ;D

Actually creme fraiche is better because yoghourt (even greek) tends to separate.

The worst Strog I ever made was from Giant Puffballs. It was like slugs.

HFW has a lamb f*g recipe bit he wants you to pop in a bit of brains and fat and nondescript connective tissue...

Thanks. My offal taste only extends to liver and kidney (and whatever they put into haggis, but please don't tell me).!

I'm now thinking of trying something along meatball* lines by adding lamb mince and moroccan style flavourings.

*The auto censor obviously doesn't like old british recipes - it keeps asterisking my faggots.

:-[  ::) sorry!
hope your OH can go back on the veg soon...

I hadn't noticed this :

"other than poor man's stroganoff"... must read better in future!

Just a couple more weeks I think. All the more veg for me  :)

No probs Ollie - I now know to avoid giant puffballs - and also that you can mix liver and mince

PS  Weird - it censors f*g**t but not faggots.

many moons ago when i was a chef i worked with a chef who worked at the Garrick club in london and he showed me recipe the chefs there used to cook for them to eat. They used to cook lambs liver in a sauce that they called s**t sauce (dont let the name put you off). You very lightly fry the liver so that its rare with a good grinding of black pepper corns after a few mins add a glass of red wine and a glug of tomato sauce and a spash of lea and perrins, reduce down to make a sauce and serve i made this on monday and my 14 year old son and he loved it. i like my liver still bleeding when i eat it.

I always brown the Onions & then cook the Liver on them in the bottom oven - 230F?

Slow is the essence of tender Liver.

Not red for me!

Think that the f*g**t recipe you want is here

http://www.blunham.demon.co.uk/Yorksgen/Recipes/Meat/index.html

Thanks Purplr Heather. I don't normally buy pigs liver but that looks fun.

Ended up coarsely mincing the the lambs liver and mixing it with equal amount of minced lamb, tablespoon or two of dried  breadcrumbs, pepper, salt and thyme and paprika. Made into balls, browned in oil and finished in the oven. Eaten with rat.

OH  and I agreed they were nice but needed a bit more - perhaps garlic and rosemary as well as thyme. 

Didn't go the Moroccan route because my jar of Chamouli had gone off !

we eat a lot of chicken liver risotto, made with funghi.  Could substitute lamb's liver I suppose, but the best tasting liver is calves.  Too expensive in the UK, but here in Italy is is very cheap and I used to eat it at least a couple of times a week.