My partner is away for a few days. She loathes all sorts of offal. So I took the opportunity to cook some tripe and some ox tail stew.
Party anyone?
I don’t know if I could stomach that.
Not too many babes are running my way.
Even the cats ate the dried food just in case I was going to feed them tripe.
Philistines.
Oxtail is some tasty stuff. I’ve done a couple of SE Asian braises. Prince Charming was in heaven.
I once saw a cheap paperback cookbook in a Pakistani/Indian store called Cooking With Waste Products.
Now I’m afraid to look up what tripe is.
Hint, hint.
Only if you make Menudo out of the tripe(soup not boy band)
Never had tripe, but ox tail is wonderful and I’d hardly classify it as offal.
And I keep forgetting to try and make steak and kidney pie. Yum.
Aw, you poor thing. Bless your heart.
Sounds somewhere between bewitching and onomatopoeiaic.
Actually, I loves me some oxtail stew. Jamaican style, or Asian?
I believe I have some beef liver kicking around my freezer. Can I bring it to the party, in lieu of wine?
Surprisingly, offal is classified as offal. I would never have guessed. I would have put it in the same category as short ribs or even chuck: beefy, tough sections of beef that benefit from a long, slow braise.
So, did you survive your gastronomic dare-devilry?
Mah mother used to boil up tripe with an oniony white-sauce…thankfully she never forced her children to actually eat any. 
Yeah, my Dad’s a real fan. And despite having shacked up with an Italian, I appear to have found my Dad in short latin form - they bond over a shared liking of US football and tripe. Although he tends to go for the tripe at Giuseppe Arnaldo & Sons at Crown more than cooking it at home (thank goodness!)
I love tripe! I’ll be over tonight with a big plate of pig’s blood! 