No Kidneys For Breakfast

I overslept very badly this morning. I went to bed the normal time but I woke up three hours later than usually. I did not sleep well the previous few nights. I was going to have kidneys for breakfast but it is way too late for that. I’ll have them tomorrow morning. Not exactly an exotic food, but I love kidneys. I think it is such a waste in a pie because you don’t taste them.sigh

My sister is going away on holiday in Gauteng on Friday and she’s emptying her freezer. She had two kidneys in there and with the one in my freezer, it was not enough for a decent breakfast, so I bought another six yesterday.idea

I’ll be all alone here from Friday. They are coming back on the same day as my father. I hope they’re booked on the same flight. I don’t fancy driving to the airport twice on the same day.mumbling

It also means that I’d be cooking my own food for the next two weeks. I’m not exactly a gourmet chef, but the people like my food when I cook. The problem is, I don’t like my own food. I can see KFC, McDonald's and the Pizza Hut being in business during the next two weeks.grin

Back to the topic, I’m fairly without imagination when it comes to preparing kidneys. I do it the way my mother used to do it. That is, cut them in halves and fry them in a pan with sliced onion.dunno

But I’m tired of it that way. There are many recipes on the net but half of them are no good. I don’t like testing bad recipes. Does anybody want to share a proven recipe or two with me and everybody else who may be interested?help
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Enjoy the day!wave

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I'll be fairly busy today, in and out all the time. Bear with me please.
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Not only I don't like my own food, others don't like either!! giggle giggle giggle


Hello Catfoot wave hug

May I know what kidneys are they exactly?? confused
Step one- Give the offal to the dog.
Step two- Visit the butcher and get a steak or some sausages.
Step three- Fry it up and serve with boiled/steamed vegetables.
My mother used to cook steak and kidney when I was a child, I think she probably sauteed them with onion then added beef stock and some flour to thicken, for a gravy confused

My British upbringing saw me being fed with all sorts of offal .. Kidneys, liver etc but I drew the line at lambs' brains and tripe.


I've been a vegetarian for many years now, probably traumatised laugh
I don't eat kidneys but my mom and brother like them. Mum cooks them with raisins and they are in a sort of gravy sauce. Sorry, the smell gets me running. uh oh
Hi DC
It's sheep... mutton.
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Hi Pat
Offal is King's food.
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hi Setene,
I love to eat all those that you mentioned. Both my parents grew up on farms and I virtually grew up with it.
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Hi KN
I once had it in a hotel. The served it with a wine sauce. It was delicious.thumbs up
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yep I loves them lambs im talking off .what I do is simple first wash them then slice about a quarter inch thick .then throw in to some white flower .onto the pan in olive oil with a well fried tomato and some nice bread simple and very nice only takes a few minutes on pan takes about 7 minutes from washing not into cooking but like nice food
Thank you Jim
With your permission I'll cut and paste it to my other recipes.thumbs up
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This is called Daylight Savings Time, Catfoot. It is completely normal behaviour. Even awake, I was still asleep many times until finally the clock returned to normal sometime in the autumn. Shout out to Saskatchewan – home of the intelligent!



You don’t do your kidney shopping over the Internet do you by chance…? It just struck me as funny but I have a black, sometimes ghoulish, sense of humour.
yep its the way to have them and is easy enjoy
Hi aRrAe
Is it not strange? Computer savvy as I am, I have never purchased anything on line. I'm one of those difficult customers who won't buy a thing until I had my hands on it.

Internet Banking is the closest that I ever got to on-line transactions. I simply don't trust on-line business.doh
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hi John
I will certainly try it. If not tomorrow, then some other time.thumbs up
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hi Aaltar,
In which case one should not drink water ether. Fish make love in it.

Ditto for eggs. It comes out the chicken's backside.laugh
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DC
This is what they look like.
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This, of course, is just a sample. I don't know who is going to look and who is going to eat.laugh
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I grew up in a big family, not wealthy. Food was never wasted, always a brother or sister would happily eat what was left over. But not kidney or liver etc., there would be at least 5 plates with food remaining on it after the meal.
Pat,
I grew up eating everything. Never forced though. every two months or so we had a sheep's head and we fought about certain parts. The brain and the tongue being the nest. I still bake one in the oven two or three times a year.

Here in Africa women may not have any of the tongue. It makes them talk too much.laugh
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Yeah, no. I could eat a bit of kidney or liver, with a knife and fork all proper, and say how delicious it is even though it isnt. But a head? Nah, thats not gonna fly.
hi Pat,
I suppose it is a strange concept if you're not used to it, but a head has a lot of normal meat on it.
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Bob
Clean kidneys 3 times, seasoning up with all the season you like on them. Then add just alittle cilantro on both sides. Add flour lightly over them. Skillet half full of cooking oil. Let oil become nicely hot! Drop them into the oil. Every few minutes! Turn from side to side until cooked. Volia! ____ bowing
I mentioned my ghoulish humour, right?

Hi Aaltar.
that comment was very much tongue in the cheek. I was teasing you.laugh

But it would seem as if you and Pat don't fancy the idea.

The fact is, I have been eating it all my life and it did not harm mee yet.

Ditto for my father and he is 88. it could not have harmed him much. He is in excellent shape for his age.

In fact, liver is rich in iron and doctors recommend it when they treat anemia. professor
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I suppose I should mention that the site is (obviously) a joke site. I tried to sell them a kidney but they never responded. I was really upset at the time because I had all that freezer space to empty. At that time....

On a serious note, the only liver I enjoy - before I got into selling my kidneys - was breaded calf liver. Never fancied the others. Looks like your getting some recipes, Catfoot.

Bonne appétit!
thank you Angel,
now I have two new methods.thumbs up
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Hi aRrAe
You mean you actually tried.rolling on the floor laughing

It is illegal in South Africa to sell body parts or blood. You have to donate it. doh

I read that in some coutries you can sell a pint of blood if you're broke.dunno
What can I say, Catfoot? I was a Republican/Conservative at that time and believed salvation comes from a pure/unregulated market economy. People who didn't have did not merit sympathy and victims were to blame for their own misery bringing us all down in the process! So naturally I didn't want to be a victim.

Tony Robbins (a peak performance guru) says that scarcity is a matter of mindset so, of course, I thought I had lots of everything to spare.

By the time I realised he was wrong I had to buy it all back at a rate that near cost me an arm and a leg.
hi aRrAe
Well, at $70k - $80k for a kidney, I wonder what an arm and a leg will fetch. grin
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Yes, I think it costs an arm and a leg for a decent kidney these days.
Pat
And I have been eating them. Why don't they transplant them on humans? I can understand that people might object to having a pig's kidney, but what's wrong with a sheep's kidney

I'm sure I can handle a few people milling around like sheep, though I may get fed up when they start bleating all day.doh
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I have to go out for a while. A guy down the road asked me to look at his wheelchair. Ge said he thinks the wheel is going to come off. We can't have that, can we?
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Sorry cat did not want to miss you out on a comment but I have allergy to all red meat, but when i could eat meat or offal as a child just hated taste of kidneys.moping moping
Anyway enjoy being cook for a week cheering cheering its either diet weekgrin or fattening up weekgrin take awaysrolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Hi Red
I'm back.

I only eat red meat. I consider pork, poultry and fish as vegetables.laugh
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cant eat pok either moping but have just bought a Spiralizer to have a mixture of raw veggies. Put a little vinergette with and smeckt gut. applause applause
Ted
I'll starve on a diet like that.laugh
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sorry Ted, go back to sleep. I meant RED.laugh
Well I can eat eggs salmon etc to go with it all.
Do love my fish and chips night and a beer or two toolaugh laugh
Red
Now that is something T don't eat. Potato chips! I don't mind fish, but it does not fill me.dunno
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Well with fish have good scauce cat and new pot or baked pot or even rice spiced up of course.
YOU're not one of the picky eaters are you.
Anyway what about the beercheers
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This might just happen, Cat.....stay away from the kidneys....rolling on the floor laughing
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