Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'liver'
Calf's Liver
Working through a favorite restaurant's menu will sometimes bring you to a dish you never expected to order. Case in point: Al Di La, in Park Slope, is one of our favorite restaurants. We were there this past Thursday night to celebrate the arrival of Craig's parents and his impending film school graduation. Having been to Al Di La several times and having loved everything on the menu (the braised rabbit, the hangar steak, the pork rib special) the time had come for me to order the dish I feared the most: calf's liver....
Liver and Let Die (Chicken Livers with Leeks, Balsamic Vinegar, and Dried Apricots)
It's summer. It's hot. Most people, hot in summer, do not crave liver. I didn't mean to crave liver. In actuality, I haven't eaten much liver in my life. I've eaten chopped liver--but that seems like a different thing: masked by egg and onions, eating chopped liver at a deli and eating a whole chicken liver is like the difference between eating canned tuna and eating tuna tartar. I'd had the can, I was ready for the real thing....
