Marinated Dove heart and Rebecca Creek

[meltingfeather]

don't forget the gizzards and livers!
the livers are very mild-- nothing like beef liver. dee-LICIOUS!!

[Jmh05]

The crop and gizzard are the same thing correct? Not a huge bird anatomist...It's full of all the seeds in the throat?

[meltingfeather]

The crop and gizzard are the same thing correct? Not a huge bird anatomist...It's full of all the seeds in the throat?

Negative-- the gizzard is the muscular grinding organ further down in the gut. It gets split open and the seed & gravel mixture inside it cleaned out.

[meltingfeather]

[Artos]

Use a sharp small knife & sorta just push the knife until you hit the gravel/feed sack. Imagine a half flattened football...I like to start one on of the ends (top/bottom) cutting along the line of most outer side tip to tip. Then just muscle it apart in half & pick/peel the sack-o-crap out.

They are good but chewy when cooked along side the hearts & still like them...my mom uses the pressure cooker & gets them tender I'm looking into.

[cfortner]

Fried dove hearts#popcorn

The wife wanted to know why there were dove hearts stuck in the popcorn maker... I pointed her toward this thread.

Just a heads up, she's pretty mad.

[Jmh05]

Negative-- the gizzard is the muscular grinding organ further down in the gut. It gets split open and the seed & gravel mixture inside it cleaned out.

My grandfather loved chicken gizzards. I'll dissect more next time and locate these.

[Jmh05]

The wife wanted to know why there were dove hearts stuck in the popcorn maker... I pointed her toward this thread.

Just a heads up, she's pretty mad.

Good luck with that!