Beef Tongue recipes

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My only experience with tongue was as lingua tacos as other have mentioned. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew what it was already, I probably would have thought it was some very tender brisket. Depends on how it is cooked and prepared.

The beef spread sounds good. I imagine it would be like potted meat except less gross :-)

For any kinda of tacos including lingua try out Taqueria Sanchez on NW10th between Meridian and Portland on the North side of the road (look for the Lucky's sign). It is a permanently parked taco wagon. Heaven on earth I tell you. Tacos are $1 they have excellent burritos and tortas (sandwhich).

My favourite in order of preference are: Steak (Asada), Chicken (Pollo), Pork (Pastor), Tongue (Lingua). They also have some other "head" meat that I haven't tried, cheeks? brain? not sure.

Also, I would take the Linqua taco over any Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Taco Mayo tacos anyday. It would be tough decision between lingua and Taco Cabana steak fajita tacos, though.
 

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I don't mind calf or lamb fries. Pretty tasty. Liver is pretty good if it is fresh and not cooked too done. But tongue isn't very good IMHO. Maybe it was the way my grandma fixed it but it was kinda like gizzards to me. No flavor. Didn't care for her brains and scrambled eggs either ... That woman never threw NUTHIN' out ... :uhh:

I was raised same way. My parents raised their own cattle,hunted,etc. My moms mom cooked for my grampas hired hands on their ranch and taught my mom how to cook. My mom is half indian and also learned a bunch of traditional indian cooking from her father who was full blood Osage-Kaw. We ate everything on an animal that was edible, and you ate whatever they cooked and put on your plate or in a bowl. Didnt like it you didnt eat. My kids today are wussies. If they dont like something theyre momma lets them take one bite then thats it. And if we eat something they dont like then theyre allowed to make a sandwhich instead of eating what we fixed. They would have starved in my house growing up with us,that wouldnt have flown with my family. No way my mom or gramma would have let you just go make a sandwich when they had cooked a meal. I didnt care so much for scrambled eggs and brains or liver,onions and bacon but I ate it. Some stuff I still dont like and hope I never have to eat again,some stuff I crave.

Seems like my gramma or mom would boil the tongue then grind it too,but they would put horseradish on it and a slice of onion on the sandwhich if I remember right.
 

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My grandpa used to boil the heads off the squirrel to get what little meat was on them and make squirrel head gravy...
My dad used to make that and he poured the 'gravy' on big homeade biskets that he called 'cat head' biskets. He had me get up on a stool once when I was little and stir the heads and other stuff in the pot while he was doin something else and it was the first time I got to see what it was we were eatin. Was awesome,but I kept thinking about those eyeballs and where they went when eatin it.
 

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