Heart is basically just very dark meat muscle.

Organs from healthy organs should generally be fine, though livers and kidneys from animals that have had to filter out lots of poisons in their lifetimes may not be as good for you.

You shouldn't need any supplements, except possibly vitamin D, on a paleo diet.

Maybe thats why I can't eat liver. Every time I've tried it, it has been from the supermarket and just tasted wrong. My dog wouldn't eat it either, which can't be good.

Maybe thats why I can't eat liver. Every time I've tried it, it has been from the supermarket and just tasted wrong. My dog wouldn't eat it either, which can't be good.

A lot of dogs don't like liver at first, but if he usually eats everything and still won't touch it, that's probably a sign.

I've been wanting to try some organs from "clean" sources...I got some liver for my dog from a place that buys from local farms, and it actually smelled ok when I was making liver treats.  Normally the smell of it cooking makes me gag.

I've been eating grass fed horse heart and liver recently - both excellent

Quote from: samjohn on December 13, 2010, 09:15:41 PM

Maybe thats why I can't eat liver. Every time I've tried it, it has been from the supermarket and just tasted wrong. My dog wouldn't eat it either, which can't be good.

A lot of dogs don't like liver at first, but if he usually eats everything and still won't touch it, that's probably a sign.

I've been wanting to try some organs from "clean" sources...I got some liver for my dog from a place that buys from local farms, and it actually smelled ok when I was making liver treats.  Normally the smell of it cooking makes me gag.

I'll get some from a grassfed organic steer when I'm on the farm and see how that goes down. It really does taste so wrong to me though, and it has been my experience that once you've been Paleo for awhile, you can start to trust things like that again.

liver actually taste very good to me although of course the source have to be known.
Don't you think organs from market store are safer anyway because they have strict rules for testing it?

p.s.
anybody tried to eat balls?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keSswFlzS0c

I have eaten raw goats testicles.  They're okay.

I like offal, but it has to be absolutely fresh and it has to be prepared right. One of the big downsides with most types of offal is that the prep time is longer, cutting off the membranes, greebly bits etc, but the nutrient levels are higher so it's worth it.

If you don't like liver, it may be because of how it was prepared. Cut into huge slabs and then cooked until grey it is disgusting! My recipe: make sure it is organic and absolutely fresh, and then cook it that day. Remove the membranes from the outside. (Once you can gently wriggle your fingers underneath they lift reasonably easily.) Then cut thin slices from the outside, and stop when you get to the tubey greebly bit in the middle. (The rest can be fed to the cat or dog or boiled and chopped and fed to the chooks or whatever.) Season with sea salt and fresh sage, and fry the slices in dripping for only a minute or two so they're still pink in the middle. Yum! For extra yum, deglaze the pan with a splash of sherry and pour the juices over.

Kidneys are great in a mustardy sauce. Hearts take time to prepare, cutting off the tubey bits and connective tissue, but they're good in any kind of hearty casserole.     Sweetbreads are delicious. Lungs are fine ground up in homemade sausage meat.

I haven't been game to try brains, tripe or testicles either.