Brains and Eggs

Re:Brains and Eggs (brisketboy)

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:07:56 GMT

I think that after some of the stuff I've eaten overseas, brains and eggs just don't seem all that alien to me.

Re:Brains and Eggs (scrumptiouschef)

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:15:20 GMT

Like that old episode of All In The Family where Edith proffers Archie a plate of cow's tongue "I'm not eating anything that came out of a cow's mouth. Now get in there and make me some eggs!

ChrisOC

I offered my neighbor tongue and eggs. He wouldn't eat the tongue because it came out of a cow's mouth. He just had the eggs.

Re:Brains and Eggs (ChrisOC)

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:38:19 GMT

I offered my neighbor tongue and eggs. He wouldn't eat the tongue because it came out of a cow's mouth. He just had the eggs.

Re:Brains and Eggs (easydoesit)

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:32:04 GMT

Here's a local sausage company in La Crosse that has won a gold medal in Germany for their headcheese, also for their Jellied Beef Loaf, which does look that appealing either. But it too has been around forever.
http://bakalarssausage.com/index.htm

Re:Brains and Eggs (CCinNJ)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:06:33 GMT

I guess low & slow.

Re:Brains and Eggs (Michael Hoffman)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:06:17 GMT

Mountain oysters, calf fries -- whatever you call them -- are great, and while I prefer my 'coon roasted or fried I'd eat it braised.

Re:Brains and Eggs (scrumptiouschef)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:52:43 GMT

MellowRoast

This very well could be the grossest thread on the site.

I'll call my dad tonight and get his pan fried balls recipe. They're delicious. He also scored a big bull coon last winter and braised it with a mess of sweet potatoes.

Re:Brains and Eggs (baileysoriginal)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:45:36 GMT

I'm with you lleechef - I'm fairly adventurous when it comes to trying different foods but I can't cross the brains boundary.

Re:Brains and Eggs (chefbuba)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:07:24 GMT

Re:Brains and Eggs (mayor al)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:18:03 GMT

B & E used to be a weekend breakfast for us in SoCal back in my 'youth' Mother did them quite well. Since all the health issues and our relocation to Indiana, we have found them as 'Fair Food' at many of the county fairs and festivals in the Southeern part of the Hoosier State. I don't know (don't recall enough to compare) how Hog brains compare to beef brains...but I have tried the brain sandwiches a couple of times at local fairs and don't much care for them.

Re:Brains and Eggs (Sundancer7)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:49:14 GMT

Ralph Melton

Chris Ayers and I sampled brains and eggs on the 2011 Glee Club trip. I didn't much care for the flavor myself.

I believe that was in Raleigh and I was there and I almost gagged watching your order arrive. Some like it and some don't and I am among the latter. I do not know if it is the thought or potential texture. You were sitting across from me.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Re:Brains and Eggs (MellowRoast)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:47:23 GMT

This very well could be the grossest thread on the site.

Re:Brains and Eggs (lleechef)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:59:03 GMT

My Nona (mother's mother) would make brains and eggs for my father. I think she felt sorry for him because my mother would not allow them in the house! As much as I love sweetbreads and other offal, I'm thinking I would not like brains.

Re:Brains and Eggs (edwmax)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:37:43 GMT

mar52

In head cheese it's the goo that holds the bits together that is especially gross.

I never seen head cheese to be made with brains. The brains was saved for breakfast to served with eggs. On the farm it wasn't wasted that way. Just not that much brains from a 200-240 lb hog.

Re:Brains and Eggs (mar52)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:34:33 GMT

Still gross.

Re:Brains and Eggs (kevincad)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:31:53 GMT

mar52

In head cheese it's the goo that holds the bits together that is especially gross.

That's just gelatin, same goo that's in Jello!!

Re:Brains and Eggs (mar52)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:18:13 GMT

In head cheese it's the goo that holds the bits together that is especially gross.

Re:Brains and Eggs (easydoesit)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:54:01 GMT

MellowRoast

I can see Vincent Price or Boris Karloff preparing this.

Or Anthony Hopkins in one of those "Silence of the Lambs" follow-ups, where he cut off and removed the top of Ray Liotta's skull while Ray was sitting at the dinner table and smiling. Apparently freshness is paramount.

Around here we've had headcheese forever. Wikipedia says it doesn't usually include the brain, but does include other tasty parts. Not tasty enough for me, though.

Re:Brains and Eggs (seafarer john)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:53:44 GMT

I'll order brains and eggs for breakfast any time I see it on a menu, which is not very often. In fact, I've had the dish only twice in my life - once at a huge truck stop just off I-95 about where it joins 301 north of Richmond; and again two years ago at Skyline Jack's in St Petersburg, Fl. It was excellent both times.

But, then, I like sweetbreads, liver, heart, kidneys, etc...

Cheers, John

Re:Brains and Eggs (Ralph Melton)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:37:53 GMT

Chris Ayers and I sampled brains and eggs on the 2011 Glee Club trip. I didn't much care for the flavor myself.

Re:Brains and Eggs (Phishmonger)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:19:40 GMT

Back in the40's (Geez, I must be getting old), my uncle operated a slaughterhouse and did custom slaughtering for whomever was wanting. We visited the farm every summer for a few weeks, and Mom and Auntie worked to feed the horde of adults and 5 kids. On occasion, Uncle would bring home some of the "delicacies" the customer didn't want after the butchering. Mom and Auntie would open the package and squeal with delight at an assortment of brains, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef hearts, tongues, or whatever was there. They'd cook up a storm and try to get us kids to partake. I don't recall any of us taking them up on that. They, however, would enjoy the fare immensely. To this day, I have never tried any of these, and don't plan to either. Thanks for listening.

Re:Brains and Eggs (ann peeples)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:52:49 GMT

I might try it if the person cooking it didnt tell me there were brains in it.....knowingly, no way.

Re:Brains and Eggs (edwmax)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:16:06 GMT

CCinNJ

I grew up having fish eyes in my soup. If you enjoy brains & eggs...enjoy.

I'd eat brains before the "business" section...for sure.

Once at a nice restaurant, the gentleman with me or ordered fish. It was served fried 'whole' ... that is head, scales and all. You carefully pull back the skin back and pull the meat from the bones. You did not just cut into the fish or the inners would spill out. ...

Re:Brains and Eggs (jmckee)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:03:54 GMT

My Uncle Dale made this for my Grandfather's birthday breakfast every year.

Re:Brains and Eggs (CCinNJ)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:15:10 GMT

A little toast with jelly & it's not the end of the world.

Unless biscuits are a must.

Re:Brains and Eggs (edwmax)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:11:05 GMT

or be ingredient for hot dogs and baloney.

Re:Brains and Eggs (CCinNJ)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:09:54 GMT

I grew up having fish eyes in my soup. If you enjoy brains & eggs...enjoy.

I'd eat brains before the "business" section...for sure.

Re:Brains and Eggs (leethebard)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:45:20 GMT

Some things are just meant to NOT be eaten!!!

Re:Brains and Eggs (Michael Hoffman)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:52:46 GMT

rumaki

Michael, the recipe is for pig's brains, not cow's brains. I didn't think pigs were susceptible to bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

There's Porcine Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Re:Brains and Eggs (mar52)

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:45:49 GMT

That's because you're using yours.