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    Home » Meat and Game

    Offal and Organ Meats

    About

    As a professional chef I was trained in nose-to-tail and whole-animal cookery and it's a passion of mine. Here you'll find recipes and techniques for real cooking, lost culinary arts most people will never know or appreciate.

    I specialize in some of the more "wobbly" or the wobbly bits and there's recipes for everything from terrines and pates, to smoked cold-cuts, headcheese and more.

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    | Blood Sausages | How to Cook with Caul Fat \ Lace Fat |

    | Classic Pork Headcheese | Braunschweiger 

    | How to Cook Rocky Mountain Oysters | How to Cook Brains |

    sliced smoked venison kidneys on a plate

    Smoked venison kidneys

     

     

    • Dried morel mushroom stuffing with gizzard confit
      Dried Wild Mushroom Stuffing
    • A close up image of a baby pig head for making suckling pig headcheese
      Classic Pork / Hogs Headcheese (Fromage de Tête)
    • A knife next to a bag of frozen beef suet from a butcher shop.
      How to Make Beef Tallow at Home in a Slow Cooker
    • a slice of seared foie gras on toast with onions and fruit
      Perfect Pan Seared Foie Gras
    • Traditional scrapple made with liver, buckwheat, cornmeal and spices recipe
      Traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Scrapple
    • Venison liver pate recipe
      Venison Liver Pate
    • Pregnant_doe illustration by Xee Reiter
      Eating Unborn Venison: an Unusual Product of Deer Culls
    • Moroccan brains recipe with eggs, tomato and harissa
      Moroccan Brains with Eggs, Tomato and Harissa
    • Creole blood sausage cake
      Creole Blood Sausage Cake
    • smoked oxtails in sauce with polenta and cooked greens
      Smoked Oxtails Stew with Tomato and Mushrooms
    • dead roadkill pheasant by a car tire
      On Cooking and Eating Roadkill
    • Lamb brain recipe fritters with lemon and sage
      Brain Fritters with Gruyere, Lemon and Sage
    • lamb brain recipe in eggs on lettuce
      Brain Salad with Herbs and Pickled Peppers (Salade de Cervelle)
    • sliced smoked kidney charcuterie
      Smoked Venison Kidneys
    • Smoked venison trotter-shank terrine en aspic gelee recipe
      Smoked Venison Shank and Trotter Terrine en Gelee (Aspic)
    • Venison feet or trotters for cooking
      How to Cook with Venison Trotters (Deer Feet)
    • Cod with venison trotter-mushroom sauce and celery leaf
      Steamed Fish with Wild Mushroom-Trotter Sauce
    • Fried venison trotter cakes or cromesquis with highbush cranberry aioli
      Venison or Pork Trotter Cromesquis
    • rendered venison fat in a jar
      Venison Fat Shmaltz
    • Venison heart confit sandwich like vastedda palermitana
      Sicilian Venison Heart Sandwiches (Vastedda Palermitana)
    • fettucine with squirrel giblets in a bowl
      Italian Squirrel Pasta with Giblets
    • Lamb head posole recipe
      Smoked Rams Head Posole
    • Venison liver terrine with pigeon, ramp leaves and wild ginger recipe
      Venison Terrine
    • Liver ketchup, a condiment made from venison, lamb or other livers
      Liver Ketchup
    • Venison braunshweiger or liver dumplings recipe
      German Venison Liverwurst Dumplings for Soup
    • Smoked rocky mountain oyster or testicle recipe
      Smoked Rocky Mountain Oysters
    • a coil of fresh homemade blood sausage
      How To Make Homemade Blood Sausage
    • Lamb fries or testicles
      How to Cook Rocky Mountain Oysters
    • a dish of chicken livers being spooned over toast
      Creamy Chicken Livers on Toast (Cibreo)
    • Venison heart bolognese recipe
      Venison Heart Bolognese
    • Fried blood sausage and potato hash
      Fried Blood Sausage and Potatoes
    • Beef neck bone terrine en gelee with black trumpet mushroom inlay
      Beef Neck Terrine with Black Trumpet Mushrooms
    • Cooked rounds of blood bread in a bowl next to a pitcher of fresh lamb's blood.
      Blood Bread
    • Chicken blood sausage
      Chicken Blood Boudin Noir
    • Lamb Sweetbreads with Lettuce, Brown Butter and Nasturtium Capers
      Lamb Sweetbreads with Fermented Nasturtium Capers
    • Cured, smoked lamb and goat tongues
      Smoked Lamb and Goat Tongues
    • Pickled Lamb Tongue
      Pickled Lamb Tongues
    • Corned Venison Heart
      Corned Venison Heart
    • Sausage stuffed in a peafowl neck.
      Peacock Neck Sausage
    • Crab Apple-Duck Liver Mousse with Elderberry Jelly
      Duck Liver Mousse or Pate, with Cognac and Apple

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