Organ meats contain cholesterol and should not be eaten by someone with a heart condition (except on very rare occassions). Tongue! Gross! I think I'd rather go for the gizzard and I think that's gross.
Are there any chain restaurants that provide the likes of "granny's home cookin'?
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I remember that! We've been there. lol It was pretty tasty for a days worth of meals.
I'm not much for eating innards either. I pretty much stick to the muscle tissue off sides, backs, and limbs. That's a scary part of eating restaurants, especially when you order sausage or ground meat meals.
The cooks at our local pub will cook anything any way you like if you bring them what you want to eat. Nifty idea. Mostly what they cook is fish, though, as there's a lot of fishing going on over here. But we've taken wild game there to have pizza made of it (stuff like elk and moose meat pizza).
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I would never eat gizzards, heart or liver from a restaurant..
Home and properly cooked.. It has been many years since I have had some for that reason..,
Doesn't hold a candle to the original "Diamond's Steakhouse" proir to being called the Tulip. The Tulip is still far & away better any other steakhouse in Toronto at their pyice point.
The best Steak on a Kaiser "Big M" in Bay Ridges (Pickering)
The best French Fries The Delux In Sudbury
Notice a recurring theme no chains
I hear you Y.J. a lot of the best food is stuff you'd never think of. My wife is funny that way if something looks funny and smells funny, she won't even touch it. NO food savvy I guess.
Is that place still in operation? I ate there on a regular basis over 25 years ago- excellent cookin' but I doubt if it's still the same cook as she was pushing 70 then I would guess.
Surely you don't waste the neck and the jiblets- every piece of our turkey gets put to good use. I make turkey soup a lot and that is just a perfect place for nexk and giblets. There is not enough of that organ meat to be a concern as far as cholesterol is concerned and if you are concerned you can just walk for an hour to burn it off. WASTE NOT WANT NOT.
I'll pretty much try anything. It's the taste that guides me in what I eat.
Restaurants aren't usually a big draw for me because they make meals from inferior ingredients. Why would I eat a burger from a restaurant that uses bland tomatoes, lettuce, beef, Kraft slices, etc. and rely on a "special" sauce to give the sandwich some flavor when I can build a burger at home with home grown tomatoes, home grown onions, real cheddar, and my cousin's range beef? Even my homemade pizzas are better than restaurant fare. So, I doubt I'll ever find a restaurant, chain or otherwise, that serves as good a meal as I can get at home. And it's simply because of the ingredients.
"Home" restaurants are a chain. Not alot of them around but have not been dissappointed when we have eaten there.
Cardio guy says moose is one of the better ones ... but pretty much the same as you. It did prompt me to take a look ... and from the Timmins Times
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Getting back to the title about "granny's cooking".
When I was a child in war-torn Hungary, there was no such thing as a wasted part of an animal. (My granny cooked the best meals of my memory and she never wasted anything). That kind of luxury is clearly the legacy of a spoiled, rich country.
I never knew good beef until I came to Canada. Neither have I ever had a single bite of "disgusting" creepy crawler like shrimp. Or slimy oyster. Or crab. Turtle soup? Forget it!
Vanisle, you are disgusted by tongue, because of where it's been? Are you similarly disgusted by eggs, based on where they came from?
Methinks, if not, you should be!
When I was a child in war-torn Hungary, there was no such thing as a wasted part of an animal. (My granny cooked the best meals of my memory and she never wasted anything). That kind of luxury is clearly the legacy of a spoiled, rich country.
I never knew good beef until I came to Canada. Neither have I ever had a single bite of "disgusting" creepy crawler like shrimp. Or slimy oyster. Or crab. Turtle soup? Forget it!
Vanisle, you are disgusted by tongue, because of where it's been? Are you similarly disgusted by eggs, based on where they came from?
Methinks, if not, you should be!
YJ - Mom and Pop operations? You bet! Sorry, I was thinking of the big commercial chain restaurants when you mentioned truck stops. You are right - the U.S. has some really good small eateries that turn out some "might good vittles."
I had some fried chicken down in Kentucky one time at a little Ma & Pa place right on the highway and let me tell you, it was the best fried chicken I've ever had - before or since. The mashed 'taters were homemade, ditto on the gravy, and the cole slaw was real. And the biskits was right out of the oven! Hell, they even had these goofy little paper placemats that had words from a "southern dictionary" all over them..."tar" - a round black rubbery object that a car rides on. "tar-arn" - A wrench-like device used to change a "tar." Lots of that kind of thing...hilarious. And the food was cheap. Service was friendly and nice.
I wish we had more places like that 'on the road' up here...we seem to have gone the way of the big chain fast food joints - all the same and none too good, and I don't like it a bit.
On further deliberation, please allow me to revise the restaurants of the Cars are decent(Harveys, Swiss Chalet, Kelseys, Montanas, Milestones) & St Hubert. If there are any Shakeys left out west include them too.
And just what makes you think that 'Granny's' home cookin' was healthy? Just because it was made at home didn't make it good for you. i used to vacation at my gramdmama's, an the meal would extend form Sunday to final leftovers on Saturday. My Dad worked on a farm in the summers. Apparently all this 'farm cookin' is more wholesome and better than 'gentrified cookin' stuff is garbage.He ate horribly for th summer. Having great produce and meat at your disposal doesn't mean that you can use it to it's best. and just because you're a 'granny' doesn't mean you can cook.
Let's face it. Granny had just as much chance to be a crappy cook as any one else - you either like to do it or you don't. 'Country' does not necessarily equate with wholesome and healthful'. Bad cooks exist everywhere - and your granny just may have been one of them.
That's too bad. Just to add a balance, both my grannies were fabulous cooks. The Scottish/American one tended to overcook the veggies, but the rest of her stuff was pretty good. The Mennonite granny's cookin' was nothing short of legendary. Sumptuous everything, from baking to desserts to lovely main dishes, salads, everything...just bloody great!
Sorry for your experiences...my old "farm grannies" were the greatest, and all their daughters (my many aunties) were just as good, some even better. Oink, oink, I never realized what a lucky young eater I was until I moved away from home to the big city and discovered "how the other half lived." eek.
You are getting hung up on semantics, if you don't like "granny" substitute "Granny's era". Actually Anna makes perfect sense in post 49- no use me just repeating what she said.
I used to like the HOME restaurant in Hope until a couple of years ago when I ordered a mushroom burger. It came with an entire can of room temperature mushrooms all over it. The flavour was a big turn-off...briny, canned mushrooms not even rinsed off. Yuck. I asked the server if this was the normal way to serve it and she said "yes." Wasn't a great meal.