Some people swear by sous-vide, but I tried slow cooking and it tasted like ■■■■■ Too dry and when I tried it, not nearly as soft as raw. You can try it, but if you do, try it raw and compare before letting me know your preference. I honestly cannot imagine a cooked heart being better than mostly uncooked.
Angus August Carnivore
coopdawg
#283
If I do try some of the hearts in the slow cooker it it will be with/submerged in a lamb casserole sachet solution/gravy, so hopefully that would prevent the drying out and keep it tender.
But I’ll try both!
Shinita
#284
I never ate lamb hearts but I can tell what I do with pork ones.
I am a simple one, I just fry them but heart makes a nice stew too…
Of course some cleaning is needed for these bigger hearts (chicken and rabbit is perfect in whole), I cut off the not nice and smooth parts, ground it and mix it into my scrambled eggs, yum.
The cats ate those parts the first time but I realized they are quite good for me 
And IDK why people like this chewy organ tender, chewiness is its biggest charm 
I love different textures.
And fry and cook the hell out of most things. Maybe not organs, interestingly they often respond well to very short times like 30 minutes…
Beef liver is good (IMO, Alvaro dislikes it), I wish I could get some…
Okay, beef liver is the Special One that truly gets only a few mins from it. I use 60-90 mins on chicken livers only, never beef… But nowadays maybe 45 is enough, it depends on the amount and the power. It badly needs it, I can’t help that… Sometimes I wonder if I live in a different world than others. The reason for the huge differences is probably multilayered, my taste and the settings of my cooktop.
On the other hand, people talk about longer times for the simplest egg dishes. Except boiled eggs, 10 min is never enough if I want to peel it. 15 is so-so, 20 is probably okay. But it totally depends on power, I use 200W, my small pot specifically to boil eggs (and deep frying when I get that stupid idea with mess) and 5 eggs.
Sounds nice and now I got even less satiated… I am at the phase where I am waiting for some real reason to eat but perfect satiation is over so part of my personality wants to eat. But it’s only 1pm and I feel I am okay, no way. Maybe my coffees with cream are the reason for it, maybe my cycle ride…
We bought sour cream (the best size, 800-850g, IDK which) and milk (sooo great for summer. I won’t have regrets - unless I drink many coffees with it, nope, that’s a bad way to use it - but as usual, Alvaro will eat up the bigger part of the liter).
It was sooo hot and I realized 20C (? or a bit less, no idea) is way too warm for a shower when I am smouldering. But it’s our cold water in summer (still better than in the apartman of Alvaro’s Mom where hot and cold water pipes run next to each other). It’s about 5C in winter, no way I will use that, Alvaro can do it for a while. I probably will stop having cold showers when October comes but I plan to have lukewarm ones. We will see. I probably will be fine with cold until the end of September (but I will run right before showering in the end).
FrankoBear
#285
I had lamb hearts last winter from the farm next door. Best lamb I had ever tasted. I carved them into stir-fry strips and quickly fried them in a wok with butter and salt. Yummo!
Fangs
#286
keeping it simple
I wasn’t really hungry yesterday and food flipped around on me.
fried up 3 nice pork chops, instant they were done, NOPE, didn’t even want one bite. In fridge for later.
can of tuna and mayo
then some chick breast
then hubby cooked a small pork loin for himself…what I ate was a few slices this morning to nibble which is rare so early for me and sneezing fit to the ultimate hit me in full force! ugh…forgot he ‘peppers’ his roasts alot and I felt it big time point blank on eating a few leftover chunks. OK, remember Karen remember, don’t trust the other cooks in the home HA
today earmark is leftover pork chops I made and who knows…got 0 draw to food right now. be interesting to see how I go on eating for the next day or 2.
what I do miss in my life, seafood. Prices have hampered that life for me right now and I realize it is a HOLE I will have to handle at some point and re-think a tad on how I am gonna do that on a darn budget LOL
ZC Strong all!!!
Karen18
(Karen)
#288
Knackered this morning 🥱 no sleep is driving me insane. When I got home from work all I really wanted to do was drop off to sleep. Watch when I go upstairs shortly I will be wide eyed!
Usual chick n butter from brunch. Took my own home prepped chick in today so there wasn’t quite as much as in the bought packets if cooked sliced chick.
Returned home and had a small tub of brown and white crabmeat while sitting outside reading in the sunshine. Kept wanting to stop off so went indoors to get fuel as I thought that might keep me awake.
Before putting pork ribs in oven (The serves 2 which only serves 1 carnivore) I opened a can of smoked mussels, nice but I wouldn’t probably have them again. The pork was nice and meat fell off ribs but i felt a bit icky afterwards and had 2 Rollmop Herrings. Not quite as nice as I remember when Gran used to serve them up … they tasted too sweet and I can’t ever remember them being sweet! What is it that they want to sabotage everything with sugar? I will see what they have in my local fresh fish mongers tomorrow.
So a bit of a mixed bag … all this fish and I will no doubt not buy anymore for months lol
Off to bed very shortly.
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Shinita
#290
Yeah that’s my problem since years 
I would so love eating some but the ones from my childhood, not these things filled with sugar AND sweeteners. I hate most sweeteners, they taste super awful to me and I hate when my meat (fish included, all animal and actually all savory dishes) has a noticeable amount of not natural sweetness (even natural bothers me if it’s too much). There are a few exceptions but I am usually like that.
Last time I checked the pickled herrings and all were bad in my eyes. So sad, it would be such a lovely change. But I looked up recipes and while I can’t get herring, I can do it using some other fish (I like the taste of herring though ), maybe?
FrankoBear
#291
Steak dinner tonight with a playing card size slice of sheep milk halloumi fried in the pan. Last night was two lamb shanks. Back to breakfast eggs and bacon, but with 3 slices of Jarlsberg cheese. Two coffees a few hours apart.
Have regained 5lbs of body weight in the past month. It’s not been a good month for staying on plan.
Feel good as I’m at home in the countryside. Doing chores around the homestead today. Weeding, moving firewood, domestic stuff like making beds etc. So much better than sitting at the computer.
The local creek is flowing into the sea at the local beach. The water is icy cold and looks like tea. Stained from the peppermint and eucalypt trees further upstream. If you taste it, it’s fresh water.
Fangs
#292
sorry on this.
you know, you should maybe just consider sleeping when it hits, if you can, not while at work behind the computer or something like that HA
I know I had to SLEEP thru weirdo times for good function in my life as it went down and maybe with med issues and life changes happening to you etc. you need to find a ‘new sleep you?’ and allow that. Not a darn thing ever wrong with just that!!! just suggestions to think about.
I went on a seafood binge of epic proportions and seems fish is your hit now LOL It will change up again, don’t worry on anything zc ya eat, just eat what ya love and what and whammo it changes and we are all good if we follow us and roll thru it!
@FrankoBear
cross roads and forget that gain…means nothing truly but shows ya how the body reacts to eating stuff it doesn’t want. Never means you are in some crisis on that level…crisis for you, I believe in some way, is forward movement of how you are gonna tackle living your life on terms you desire. That damn life balance and you will find it as we all have to walk that walk at a certain point in our lives. No small undertaking either!!! 
You are fine and you got this and SO SO happy you are home and enjoying your lovely location and how you wanna live your life and just walk thru that great nature, that great area you feel so cemented to and just think a bit…in small chunks…what DO YOU WANT and how can ya do it to suit you best.
Not sure if this applies to you at all…but for me I hit that point and massive change is super hard and took alot out of me in thoughts and guts and just wondering ya know…but for me personally it all changed to the best of the best for me cause I took time and thought out scenarios of what if this, what if I did that, what if we do it this way, what if we can’t do that? and in the end it hits that narrow point we all want…it shows us the way forward for best suiting us. What you want and how you wanna live your final way is very very very important and satisfying and true to you…OK again, might not be what ya wanna hear, or need at this point, or I am reading too much into it or ??? just throwing out thought chat on it
Fangs
#294
he thrives in his nature and life literally…that is what makes it so great to read! true life and fullfilment!
Karen18
(Karen)
#295
Well what do you know?? I got 10hrs42mins sleep last night !!!
I ws so flippin tired and went up at 6.30pm. Watched some YouTube clips/posts and then went to sleep , according to fitbit at 8.20pm. Woke a few times, music coming from next door and then the kids were banging about at 1030pm and needed the loo 2 or 3 times through the night but having said that I slept well and wasn’t up as often as normal and the sleep felt deeper and longer… maybe 2 to 3 hourly instead of every hour. I think the last 3 weeks of hot weather and no sleep finally caught up with me. Didnt take a sleeper either! What was that you were saying @Fangs !!! I was awake and on loo just after 6 and went back till 7.20 then I got up.oh what I would give for another good one tonight cos I feel very tired again!
Put a hood sized brisket in the slow cooker over night and that became brunch, still have about half left as I had some more early evening followed by a taster of pickled cockles and pickled mussels both nice and NOT sweetened yay @Shinita ! Then followed that by 2 chick thighs (fairly small) and had 2 more just now.
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robintemplin
(Robin)
#296
Karen, your post brought back a childhood song about Sweet Molly Malone. Thanks for the fun memory. And I remember wondering what cockles and Mussles were and why anyone would them alive-alive-o?
Karen18
(Karen)
#297
Used to sing that song as a kid , I had forgotten all about it! Thanks for bringing that back.
I can remember the fish man coming into the pub with a basket of cockles and mussels, walking round the tables selling them. They still do that in some areas of England. Also we used to go down the bay to find fresh cockles and bring them home and gran would boil them. Think I prefer pickled, no gritty sand in them lol.
ElgynsToy
#298
Well, that song is firmly stuck in my head now!
There’s not much food I dislike, but when I do dislike something, it’s the texture. Gritty bits in things are a massive nope for me (dried fruit that’s been cooked… shudder)
Mum was a full on cockles and mussels addict, but as much as I’m gaga for seafood, I can’t go there for fear of the gritty bits xD
Shinita
#299
Yay! And poor me who never ever saw pickled cockles or mussels! (I don’t even know what is their difference, actually…)
I googled a bit, there is a webshop with canned seafood… Everything is in sunflower oil, well okay sardines have an olive oil option (surely tuna too but tuna is easy to get in a supermarket anyway. sardines too I suppose but I forgot to check last time) but pickled ones come in sunflower oil… Sigh.
I keep looking, I want a TAD more options for fish and seafood.
Yay for sleep too! I don’t even know how people function without proper sleep, I often can’t even with it. Some kind of weather affect me too much. But sleep is super important, the few times I had it wrong (I did sleep just little or not well, waking up even once is a mild form of it, fortunately that’s super rare), I was completely useless and miserable.
The rest will be about me, nothing interesting or informative, I just find it helpful to write down my thoughts when thinking them.
I already wrote in another thread that I managed to went over my limits and had (a quite serious, for me, I was in PAIN for real) bellyache today. Yeah, I didn’t eat so well. Not sooo bad, looking at my individual days but my extras add up, my body works that way, it handles one day, two, several but at one point it says it had enough. My desires are at the still okay level but I still have some compulsions. And certain items have an extremely strong effect even in tiny amounts and I should use my experience but no, I am reckless and not a true hedonist. Oh well.
So I have exactly one option now, well too, I can stop eating for a while But that’s not sustainable. And anyway I still have some pork roast, it will be 6 days old tomorrow. Today it was still good but I knew roasts last long, I just have no idea how long.
So I am back to carnivore, as seriously as I am able to do it in summer. I suppose it will be quite strict for days, no extras just the usual somewhat relaxed (but strict to me) style so processed meat, spices and condiments are okay but the amount is tiny. I have wonderful smoked cooked pork belly and dry sausage is my medicine (I needed it today, probably won’t tomorrow though. still a lovely accent in some dishes).
I cut off coffee and try to remind myself I want to skip lunch. Today things happened (stupid coffee with cream…) and I had some bites in the morning, had lunch with Alvaro before noon… I don’t think I ate very much and that’s good but still… It’s so tiresome I have very close to zero control over my eating AND that it doesn’t work well enough. I am fine with no control if I just follow my whims and my whims are perfect… I am not anywhere close to there yet though it’s not THAT bad. But bad enough. I can slowly stray too far. If not too far, too long, it’s similar
Sorry I just thought through writing again and vented too I suppose. I am half-asleep, I shouldn’t write in this state.
We had rain today too. Wow. Maybe the nearby river is flowing again. It stopped lately and some parts got dry too, maybe? Or very close. I never saw that before, it’s not a tiny one…
But we had a little sun and took a walk to visit a fruit tree in the wildlife park. And we found wild mushrooms on the way back. And my garden have a new fruit season (FIRST fruit of the plant… we kept accidentally cutting poor plant when it was a baby… but it survived and grew, it’s a hero!). Circumstances, I have them. But I can behave for a while.
It will be sooo much easier later. Resisting things being THERE for a limited time, I am the worst at that and lack of desire and knowledge doesn’t matter, it’s one type of compulsion. I never believed I can fight compulsions, my approach always was to change enough not to have them (the same as with all kinds of temptations except when the target has a label I can read, that makes wonders, I easily lose interest in no time). I am an optimist as usual and plan to solve this soon.
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#300
I used to love pickled herring! The kind in sour cream. I thought it was so healthy. But sadly, full of sugar 
@Karen18 Hurray!! I know this entire forum is cheering for your 10 hour sleep lastnight! Poor baby, you deserve it bigtime! Here’s to another one tonight!
Your brisket looked fantastic by the way.
@Fangs With ya 100% on sleeping when and where ya drop. I have some sleepless nights followed by days with naps of an hour or two and it does balance things out. Now we’re working in town and going to bed later but the puppy still gets me up with the sun, so… naps!
And something you said yesterday I think, just hit me this afternoon all at once: “you shouldn’t have looked up the carbs in that beer.” Because suddenly I realized counting carbs is not what we’re about, so a trial of something, once fat-adapted, is only confirmed or denied by the resultant “gut” feeling, not by any numbers attached to it. The meaning was so much deeper than my initial take on it which was “You really don’t wanna know.” Ha!
coopdawg
#301
If you get a chance to try the Parsons pickled cockles amd mussels, I think you’ll find the quality far superior to Van Smirren versions.
I love them- have had them all. IMO, Parsons are the best.
