Dinner parties with contentious food

I have the same feelings about liver, urms.

I was served with a salad which looked nice until I had something pop in my mouth. It was salmon caviar disgusting stuff even more annoying it was served by a vegan. Why would someone who ate no meat or fish or dairy give guests caviar without even asking if they would like it? I eat meat and fish both in small quantities but would never consider eating fish eggs.

I've twice been invited to a friend who always cooks lamb. She carves huge chunks with the blood visible in the juice. I pass it onto my sons plate.

We still have people for dinner and we serve 3 or 4 courses but not as often as we did. My husband likes to do the whole works when we invite people. More often now though we go out for lunch with friends much more relaxing.
That menu was awful Yammy no thought for the guests at all which is surely the point of inviting people.

I don't mind liver but it has to be trimmed properly, same with kidneys. Kidneys need to be slow cooked too otherwise they are really tough

My dad did it the second way baggs.

I love liver with bacon and onions, served with mash (only lambs) and kidneys.

Not so keen on whale or horse.

Fish roe is good stuff, very nutritious. Don't think I've ever had caviar but I have eaten other fish roe.

Perhaps your vegan host didn't know what caviar was, redhead.

I have never eaten rabbit or hare in my life! And to think of it cooked in its own blood! Yuk!!!

In a jug.
With the lid on it's head like a hat.

Ditto kitty and Baggs.
I adore this old recipe. Plain, simple & delicious with mash. In fact I made it earlier this week.
Cheap too.
The lamb’s liver was £1.19 from Sainsbury’s.
Maybe I should organise a dinner party ...
?

grannyrebel7

I have never eaten rabbit or hare in my life! And to think of it cooked in its own blood! Yuk!!!

All meat bleeds. It's hard not to notice this if you ever buy raw meat. You don't cook meat only in it's own blood. Even fried steak needs some fat or oil as well. Things like hare and rabbit are cooked as stews on the whole with loads of other ingredients (see recipe above for jugged hare).

What's all this eeeuw about the blood of meat? Get real!

its own blood

Grrr

My mum used to make rabbit stew, and I wasn't allowed to say a word.
Nor when she served stuffed hearts.

Until we retired we did go to many dinner parties and mainly enjoyed them very much, with good hosts and food.
I do remember one though, where the starter was escargots....and I simply had to say that I couldn’t eat them.
Neither can I eat any shellfish and have had to say so on occasion.
Another starter was never offered, but that was ok I just drank some wine and chatted, but it isn’t hard to find out beforehand
If dinner guests have dislikes or allergies, is it?

My mum used to like cow’s stomach. It was creamy and curly?
?
Think she shook vinegar over it before she picked up her knife and fork....
Can’t think what it was known as.
I never ate any.

Tripe?

I used to make rabbit stew regularly at one time, years ago, it was delicious.

I never liked it.
It was pink looking and slightly sweet.

Yes MissA! I just Googled it.
Here you go.
It smelt like wet hay. With onions.

I can remember taking one mouthful and being warned "Don't start!!!!"

Hehe!

I used to eat haslet.

From Wiki:

“Dressed tripe was a popular, nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century.[4][5][6] While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined. Tripe has come to be regarded as a pet food, as the increased affluence of postwar Britain has reduced the appeal of this once staple food.”

I've never been to a dinner party, I've had meals at friends houses and they've eaten at mine but there wasn't anything refined or strange on offer

We love liver, kidneys, blood puddings, haggis. I wouldn't serve them to visitors though, I know too many people who don't eat them. I've been served rabbit and pheasant, which I'm not too keen on, but ate it.

But please don't offer me tripe, or shell fish - makes my blood run cold.