Liver and onions with gravy and mashed potatoes and maybe peas. Yummy!

mashed potatoes

Mashed potatoes with pan drippings and onions, peas or green beans. Occasionally I add red peppers to the onions in the pan.

Thumbs up for mashed potatoes and peas.

Mashed potatoes and either green beans or corn.

LOL brushworks..........yes liver is high in cholesterol but it's also high in iron.

Mashed potatoes for sure and a simple salad.

I don't think I've actually ever eaten liver and onions. I like onions, but they don't like me so much. I like potatoes. I think something green would be better. So how about green beans or a salad?

For me, maalox. For you, mashed potatoes.

Make gravy with the drippings and serve with rice and a green vegetable.

Tums

Definitely would have mashed potatoes. Peas sound good too. Liver and onions, fried with bacon. Back when my son was growing up I always made a box of mac and cheese for him when I made liver because I wouldn't make him eat things that made him gag. I don't cook it anymore since hubby isn't crazy about it. There is only one restaurant around here that has it and they are about a 30 minute drive from here.

Mashed potatoes and peas. Nix on cooking the liver and onions with bacon. Just plain liver and onions. Bacon makes it too greasy, IMO.

Mashed potatoes. No peas. Yes on cooking the liver and onions with bacon, preferably, cook bacon, remove from pan, cook onions, remove from pan, saute liver, top with onions.

I know some people like it, as a child Mom fixed it often, similarly to how Diane described. And always w/mashed potatoes.

The smell of liver cooking will send me running out the door.

I do not eat liver in any form but my mom used to make liver and onions and make a wonderful brown gravy with it that was wonderful over rice. So rice and gravy would be my meal and for veggies peas or field peas.

My mother used to make that for herself when I was a kid and if I remember correctly, she’d either have mashed potatoes or potatoe pancakes with it.

Liver 'n onions made with bacon over buttered noodles at home or mashed potatoes in a restaurant.

when I was cooking in a restaurant, I would make liver and onions, they always wanted spinach with it for a veggie and mashed potatoes and gravy. When I fried the liver I fried the onions first so that the grease had the onion taste. Then I put the liver in flour first, and then in eggs and then in flour again. That is supposed to help the flour stick to the meat better. My DS asked my mother once why her liver was so much better than the liver she made. My DM always put a little bit of sugar in the flour.

Nothing, wouldn't eat it for the life of me. When I was a kid, my mom use to make. My sister and I would cut it up in very tiny pieces and swallow it with a heaping spoon of mashed potatoes. Sometimes we would hide it behind the radiator. We always sat in front of it so it was easy to hide it there.

My favourite dinner! I have it with gravy, mashed potato, peas and cabbage!

I think Linda_6 & I had the same mother! LOL We certainly ate it the same way!

Ha! We did the same thing! Tiny tiny pieces swallowed with a gulp of milk.

Best liver and onions were prepared by the lunchroom staff where I taught. Kids didn't eat, but us teachers sure enjoyed.

Mother refused to cook it but Dad loved liver and onions. It was always the first thing he made for us when mother would go out of town to visit her parents without us. The second he returned from dropping her off at the bus station, the pots and pans would clatter in the kitchen.

I love the idea of making it with bacon. And of course mashed potatoes.

Pizza.

Never ate it, never will.

Nothing...I hate liver!

Mashed potatoes or rice and fried okra.

I think my mother used to make it with calf’s liver. More tender? I forget. I think she served it with crumbled bacon, fried onions and mashed potatoes. I don’t remember gravy and never made it with gravy myself. I used to order it at a German restaurant years ago before they closed. They sliced their onions very thing and then deep fried them so they were nice and crispy. A big mound of them on top of the liver. Thar’s was really good.

My mom always added a bit of red wine to the pan (cast iron) at the very end of cooking. Made the gravy really really good.

Baked sweet potato is an alternate choice. A garden salad is good, too.

Syrup of Ipecac ;-D

Mashed sweet potato, and peas. Spinach could be an option.

I don't make liver and onions often, but when I do, I pan fry in butter, and I use no flour. I season with ground pepper, Worchestor sauce, and ground garlic powder.

If you find liver from healthy pastured animals, this can be a very healthy meal.

Bacon. :-D

Oh a side? Mashed or buttered boiled potatoes and a green vegetable.

My Mom & a few of my siblings had a blood disease known as Spherocytosis(sp) that causes a sever iron issue.

The docs at Western told her back in the 60's that they were to eat liver at the very least once a week,the rest of their lives.

Mom dredged the liver with flour and seasonings and browned it.

Then she placed the liver,onions sliced thin,and bacon cut into 1" pieces in a roast pan and roasted it for an hour or so.

While it was roasting she made her own bbq sauce and then poured it over the liver mixture,and baked another 20 minutes or so.

She always had mashed potatoes and veggies of some sort with it as well(peas would be my preference)

Now,I NEVER eat liver myself,altho,I too,am supposed to....I do make it for my husband who really loves it this way.

Try it,you might be surprised how good it is,Marilyn.

I didn't grow into liking the onion part until I was older but I absolutely loved liver as a child and still do. I used to request it when ever my opinion was asked. I was very picky as a child and I didn't like things in gravy which was served often in our household. So on those nights I would get liver.

Oh, we never have liver gravy. Actually, when I fix it, it's just green beans -- fresh ones and the liver and onions. If we do a starch, it's roasted potatoes. And lots of onions, please!

Yum! YES! I like to dip liver in flour that has pepper, garlic powder and Lawry's (yes, I only buy that brand) seasoned salt. Brown the butter in the frying pan and only fry each side for a few minutes. Too long and it turns to rubber. I fry my onions in the same pan while the liver cooks. Great: haven't had it for so long now I want some.

Many years ago, I went to weight watchers and we were supposed to eat liver at least once a week. I ate calves liver fried until it was almost burnt. With rice and canned peas. I hate liver and I hate canned peas. I don't know why I picked that to go with them, but that lasted two weeks and I quit the liver and I quit WW. I weighed 129 at the time and the rest of the people were about to kick me out anyway. ;)

During my childhood, liver and onions was served every other Thursday. My brother and I spent many long hours sitting, staring, crying at the liver on our plates. If it wasn't finished, it was then served the next day. We finally wised up and wrapped the pieces in paper napkins, stuffing our pockets, then tossing. When I got older I made sure to find a friends house to visit every other Thursday. I vowed early on that when I had kids, I would not force them to eat something they hated. I stuck to that :)

I fixed a baked potato to go with mine and I had some marinated vegetable salad. I ate the salad but was too full for the potato. I will have the potato another time. The liver was good and nice and tender.

Sue

Everyone in my family was forced to eat liver and onions. I loved them and still eat organ meat sometimes. No one else does though. That's okay we're all different. I usually eat my liver and onions with potato. Most of the time pan-fry but sometimes baked.

My Mom & a few of my siblings had a blood disease known as Spherocytosis(sp) that causes a sever iron issue.

Hmmm ... I'm not familiar with this, but many of my family members have Hemochromatosis -- a blood condition that is connected with excessive iron -- I'm wondering if these are connected conditions.

What Hemochromatosis is: a normal person eats something heavy in iron, and his body keeps what's needed /discards the rest through the urine. A person with Hemochromatosis "holds onto" the excess iron ... it makes no difference to a young person, but between ages 50 and 60, the excess iron builds up to the point to make itself known: the most common thing is Cirrhosis of the Liver, but kidney disease is also common. The thing is, that excess iron builds up in the internal organs, and it causes cancers, etc.

The treatment is simple: Give blood every six weeks -- other people can use the blood -- it isn't tainted in any way, and by discarding blood regularly, the iron cannot build up to problematic proportions (you may also be guessing that women are better protected from Hemochromatosis, even if they carry the condition). Yes, I am obsessive about giving blood.

Are you, by chance, Irish? Hemochromatosis is almost exclusively limited to those of us with Irish blood ... but if you have a single drop of Irish blood in your body, your chances of having this condition are excellent.

Anyone else of Irish descent, make a New Year's Resolution to be tested for Hemochromatosis in January!

Back to liver ... my family has never been a big fan of either beef or calf liver, but we will eat chicken livers 'til the cows come home -- seriously, my three brothers would fight someone for a chicken liver. We LOVE our chicken livers. The secret: Never deep-fry them, as restaurants tend to do. Drench them in seasoned flour, then fry them gently just until done -- if you over-cook them, they are nasty. We always eat them with rice, gravy and peas.

Almost 40 years since I've eaten a meal of this but I would frequently slice it thin, fry it in a Wok with onions and Bell Peppers and serve over rice.

My Mom and I sometimes go to a specific restaurant for liver and onions. They serve it with linguine.

Mrs.Pete..this is what I googled on the family illness...

Spherocytosis is an auto-hemolytic anemia (a disease of the blood) characterized by the production of spherocytes (red blood cells (RBCs)) or erythrocytes that are sphere-shaped rather than bi-concave disk shaped. Spherocytes are found in all hemolytic anemias to some degree.

What we were told in laymans terms,is that this disease is the opposite of Leukemia.

Mom was Aboriginal Native(Cree).....My Dads' Mom was English,straight from England.....a Spencer,actually...so,if there is Irish in there,no idea.