Sunday, June 8, 2008

Liver `a l'orange


Ecclesiastes 6:1-12
Psalms 24, 29
Acts 10:9-23
Luke 12:32-42


Acts 10:9-23

I love eating and liver `a l'orange is my favorite way to look liver.* You fry the liver with slices of orange and Italian seasoning and serve it with rice pilaf. Yummy. A great delicacy in Britain is pressed ox tongue. Boil the tongue, squeeze it into a bowl which is just large enough to hold it. Put a plate on top and then a great big pile of books and leave it to get cold. Slice and serve with salad. Now oxtail takes a very long time to cook, about eight hours but it is well worth the weight. I liked my mother's tripe and homemade brawn. I got David to like brawn but I was not successful with tripe.
If I am talking about food that does not appeal to you then I have used the orange recipe with pork chops and I think it work quite well with tofu.
Peter was having a similar problem. He was hungry and kept day dreaming about food whilst he was praying but all the food that came to him was obnoxious and unpalatable. He would rather go hungry than eat any of that, even the thought of it made him want to vomit.
God had other plans. As Peter came back to reality the reality was that he was being sent into an unclean house to talk and eat with unclean people. That is they were unclean if you followed the rules and the taboos of Peter's upbringing.
It is the clean who are in church.

*Liver `a l'orange (or pork chop or tofu)
about 6ozs of liver for each person - I prefer calf liver
2 oranges-
Italian seasoning
small onion- chopped
clove of garlic -crushed or chopped
boullion cube (Veggie Oxo)
1 cup rice
2 tbs flour


boil 2 cups of rice, add the oxo cube and stir until melted, add a shave of Italian seasoning and the rice. Cook covered until the rice is soft. (You could do this more elaborately with onion and garlic but I am a short cut cook).
Put the flour in a ziplock bag, add a teaspoon of Italian seasoning and gently toss the liver in it so that the liver is thinly coated with flour and seasoning.
Heat some oil in a frying pan and fry the onion and garlic, add the liver and the juice of one of the oranges, cover and cook for a few minutes, turn the liver and cook until the liver is done. Slice the other orange thinly and fry the orange slices with the liver.
Garnish the liver with the orange slices.

A variation is to cook the liver- or pork chops with the onion, garlic and orange in a baking dish at 375 F for about 30 mins. This takes even less effort.








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