Cooks' Corner

[Lesley Cox]

Well I'm sure they'd be wild about it John, but the sheep, deer etc from whence these "oysters" come are usually more or less untamed, out on the hill for most or all of the year. You certanly can't buy them in the supermarkets.

[annew]

You're going to have to enlighten me, Leslie - mountain oysters???

[Juan Fornes]

Trond: meat must be really good tasting, with that roasted look. However I dislike texture and taste of brain, and well, the eye I kindly give it to connoisseurs. One thing more or less related with this could be "smoked cow tongue": sliced, a few seconds in microwave, paprika sprinkled and covered with a good olive oil is delicious.

You're going to have to enlighten me, Leslie - mountain oysters???

Ann: I´m afraid I was enlighted by google because I had the same question...

[Hoy]

Trond: meat must be really good tasting, with that roasted look. However I dislike texture and taste of brain, and well, the eye I kindly give it to connoisseurs. One thing more or less related with this could be "smoked cow tongue": sliced, a few seconds in microwave, paprika sprinkled and covered with a good olive oil is delicious.

You're going to have to enlighten me, Leslie - mountain oysters???

Ann: I´m afraid I was enlighted by google because I had the same question...

Juan, I have to confess, the few times I have eaten "smalahove" (http://www.smalahove.no/) I have just eaten the meat and not the brain, eyes etc But I am a stranger, have only lived here for 25 years
My mother always served tongue for Xmas food when I was a kid

[Juan Fornes]

Ah, Trond! I´ve been now enlighted by you! Wich smalahove did you eat? Maybe those shown in picture 3 of your link??
And well, I guess you were not too found on your mother´s tongue, right? (I mean the cooked one...

[Hoy]

You know, Juan, have to be careful. My wife is always there
I still look at the better halves but I can't remember why

[Juan Fornes]

 

[Lesley Cox]

Anne, not to put too fine a point on it, the testicles from inside the sheep's scrotum. Normally the whole thing would be thrown away at tailing time (I think many farmers in the UK don't tail their sheep but ours do as it keeps the hind end free from parasites and flies and the like, in hot weather) but for events like the Wild Food Festival they are kept and then cooked, mostly on a barbecue I think and enjoyed by all (well, by most). Many farmers when tailing will eat some raw as they're removed from the lamb.

The Wild Food Festival is held each year on the West Coast (where the Pike River coal mine is) and everything can be bought and eaten from every kind of local game to the "oysters," huhu grubs (similar to the Australian witchity grub) and countless other pieces of disgusting protein, all washed down with barrels of beer, whisky etc. Local and imported music too, of the kind beloved by some Forumists.

[ranunculus]

 

[annew]

OOh, let me think... testicles, grubs, testicles, grubs... no, I can't quite make my mind up.

[Lori S.]

Ah, yes... we have "Rocky Mountain oysters" here, being in cattle ranching country.  Not that I have ever been tempted to partake of same...

[Hoy]

Ready for serving

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Hoy I really needed those. I was about to make a cup of tea but will have a stiff brandy instead.

[maggiepie]

Lesley, you crack me up.

Trond, how about a pic of you bogging in 
Bet you wouldn't get crushed in the stampede to get to the plate.

[John Kitt]

That's a very small plate or a very l-a-r-g-e set of "oysters".

My recollections are of calves oysters, BBQ'd on the blade of a shovel over the branding fire at the end of proceedings.

Sweet, tender and very more-ish although I am prepared to admit that probably anything would taste good at that time.