Things cooked in cast iron seem to taste better. At least to me.

Years ago,when camping,I always prepared the meals in a nice cast iron Dutch Oven.

Wayne

The ultimate touch!

Pap,

That is one good looking dinner. Love the Special Red Solo Cup!

Tom Flynn

I came in for lunch and Pap's steak & vegs made me hungry.

I pickled an elk tongue for the first time. Boiled it in pickling spices, vinegar, water, sugar, salt, dill seeds, etc. Boiled at a simmer for 2 hours. Refrigerated it with the liquid overnight, then trimmed off the outside of the tongue. Re heated to a simmer for 2 more hours. Refrigerated again, then sliced thin. Wow, absolutely delicious. Firm but tender and quite tasty. Worth the effort for sure.

Pap

Sounds good Pap!

When I was a little bitty toot, my Grandfather introduced me to cow tongue.

I ate it because he did and ended up developing a taste for it.

He & I were the only two that would eat it.

My grandmother would cook it in a pressure cooker with some good seasoning. We'd peel the skin off and make sandwiches out of the meat.

When you're hungry, you can get over what the meat came from and give it a try. It wasn't bad at all.

Most don't realize that salted buffalo tongue was the first and most popular part of the buffalo. Boiled in salt water, cooled, peeled and sliced, was a tender and tasty meat. Obviously an elk tongue isn't anywhere close to the size of a beef or buffalo, but big enough to make it worth while. My wife, Lucille, is from New Mexico and she would have me cook a beef tongue every Christmas to prepare, grind and mix with minced meat and pinion nuts to make empanadanitas. I would always slice a couple for a sandwich with onion and mayo. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

Pap

My Grandparents raised some long red peppers that they used to make pepper sauce with.

It was almost as thick as ketchup and hot as FIRE !!! As a kid, it was all I could do to handle a drop or two, and that was with plenty of sweet milk on ice next to my plate.

My Grandfather would get a good sized bite of beef tongue on his fork and dip it in that pepper sauce and eat it like that.

Made a small batch of tiny pinto beans in my #6 Griswold Dutch oven last night. Pretty tasty.

Pap