offal

All right, this is half a head. It came with my last pork share – well, it was indeed optional, but I wasn’t going to reject a head out of hand. (Umm?) This head came brainless – if you do get the brain tissue, remove and cook separately for a lot less longer. (Or, discard.) But...

I get a meat share quarter or half a pig every few years of late, and very few people want to take ownership of the “weird bits” or offal. Rather than waste this, I’ve selflessly (??) volunteered to take on some of these “weird bits” and cook them up, so the animal gets all his or her parts...

In Japan, you'll find yakatori skewered with just about any edible chicken part, including the heart. Unfortunately, in the US it is usually just the breast meat. My source recipe: NY Times: Yakatori Chicken with Ginger, Garlic and Soy Sauce In which the intrepid Times correspondent...