Chicken Livers

[chindora]

Being a good Southern girl, I adore chicken livers. Gotta have them with lots of sauteed onions, gravy and mash. Corn is nice, and biscuits a necessity. My daddy makes the best I have ever had, probably better than mine, which I have told him. I think that my dad would flip if he came here to the UK and made fried chicken livers, like I did the

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[gabychka]

Not that I would indulge in the meal (though I might try), I'm glad you had some food that brought you back to your roots. Hope you and the family are doing very well! ox

[my_stitching]

I'm a southern girl too. And I LURRRVE me some chicken livers! My favorite way to eat them is breaded and fried (similarly to traditional fried chicken) with cocktail sauce. *swoon* I do agree the ones here are different but I am happy to be in an area which eats those parts like we do back home.

Have you tried the chicken livers at Nando's? They are spicy but super yummy.

[idaho_smith]

Hmmm.... I'm afraid that one's go me stumped.

Back in the bad old days when diagnosis largely consisted of looking, listening and palpitating instead of a battery of biochemical tests. Finding hardening of the liver was a strong indicator of excessive alcohol consumption, but I doubt that British poultry farmers distribute tots of rum to their stock!

On the other hand, husbandry is different on each side of the pond. We grass-feed the beef-cattle and refrain from synthetic growth-hormones (I understand U.S. cattle are often corn-fed), but we dabbled in feeding the parts of sheep unsuitable for humans to the dairy-cattle back in the '70s & '80s and the less I tell you about Prions&BSE, the fewer sleepless nights you'll have.
I believe it is excess fat that causes softening & enlargement of liver. I'm now freely speculating, but perhaps U.S. poultry-men give their flocks an oilier feed to boost weight-gain?