Beef Liver and Onions Recipe

This recipe tastes just like my mom’s old-fashioned liver and onions. And, since I’m tying to get my iron up so I can give blood, liver and onions is on the menu I’m the only one in my family who likes liver, so I don’t make it often.

If you like gravy with your liver, it’s simple to do with the pan drippings and some flour and milk, if you are an adventurous sort.

I always hope to have a little leftover to make a liver and onions sandwich, with melted mozzarella on homemade sourdough bread, the following day.

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Beef Liver and Onions

Yield: 6

Author: Prairie Woman Arts

Prep time: 1 HourCook time: 25 MinInactive time: 1 HourTotal time: 2 H & 25 M

This old fashioned recipe is just like my mom made and takes me back to my childhood. I actually loved liver and onions as a child, but then, my mom is an excellent cook.

Ingredients

• 2 pounds beef liver, sliced 3/8"
• 1 cup milk or buttermilk, enough to cover beef liver
• 1/4 cup butter or bacon grease, divided
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2  teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 large yellow or sweet onions, peeled and sliced into rings
• 1 cup all purpose flour

Instructions

1. Place sliced beef liver in a shallow bowl or ziplock bag, and cover with milk. Refrigerate 1-2 hours, preferably. 
2. Mix flour and seasonings in a shallow pie plate, and set aside.
3. 30 minutes before dinner, melt 2 tablespoons butter in a cast iron skillet and add onion slices. Turn the skillet to medium-low, and cook the onions slowly, so they soften and caramelize, about 10-15 minutes. Put the caramelized onions in a bowl and set to the side. 
4. While the onions are cooking, remove the liver from the refrigerator and dredge each piece of liver in the flour and seasonings, until well coated. Set on a plate, single layer. 
5. In the same skillet that you cooked the onions, melt the rest of the butter and add the liver. Fry slowly, on medium-low, turning once. If you have more liver than your pan can hold, remove fried liver and cover on a plate, until all liver is done. 
6. Return all cooked liver to the cast iron pan, set heat to low, and pile the cooked onions on top. Cover with a lid and heat through. 
7. Arrange on a platter and enjoy. 
8. Serve with a fresh salad and a baked sweet or russet potato. 

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How to make a lavender eye pillow

Everyone in my family loves a soothing lavender eye pillow, used cool for headache relief or tension, or warm for muscle stiffness. I’ve tried to make this easy enough for a beginning seamstress! Let me know if anything is not clear!

Personally, I love using an eye pillow when I take a nap or after a yoga session.

Details: Lavender eye pillows can be used cool or warm. You can simply throw rice in a cotton sock, and tie the end shut. But, if you want to give them as gifts, (they make a great gift,) or love the hygge way, you might want to choose a cotton print or even a lovely linen. And guess what? You can use upcycled fabric, or new!
For the following instructions, I have a fat quarter of orange batik fabric, and scraps of cotton flannel. Let’s get started.

You will need 2 rectangles of fabric 5x11”, 1 1/2 cupswhite rice or flaxseed, and 1/2 cup dried lavender buds.

1. Cut 2 pieces of fabric, 5” x 11” . My boys use these so I cut them a little bigger than I used to! It’s not critical.

2. Take one rectangle and lay it on top of the other, right sides together.

3. Sew around 3 sides, with a short stitch so your seeds don’t sneak through, and a 3/8” seam allowance. Secure the beginning and end with backstitching. Trim the 2 corners, being careful not to clip through stitching.

4. Turn the pillow inside out, and turn the unstitched end 1/2” and press.

Now, it’s ready for your lavender and flaxseed filling. You can also use white rice.

You can fill your lavender pillow with flaxseeds or white rice.

6. You might have a funnel, or you might do like I do and make an impromptu funnel out of a pattern on your cutting table! Pour the flaxseeds and lavender into your pillow rectangle.

7. Stitch across the open end, backstitching at the beginning and the end.

That’s it! Your lavender flaxseed (or rice) eye pillow is ready to use!

Store in a sealed ziploc bag to keep it clean. I keep one in the freezer for a soothing aromatherapy pillow over my eyes. You can also set the lavender flaxseed pillow on a clean plate and microwave it 15-30 seconds. Every microwave is different, so try 15 seconds at a time. This is one of my favorite things for a stiff neck.

Try this and let me know if I can improve the instructions!
If you make one use the Instagram hashtag #prairiewomanartsfriends so I see it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Your friend,

Anne Dovel