Anne McAlpine: March 31, 2022

A reader requested some liver recipes, so I asked my sister-in-law Elaine Butikofer for her recipes. Her husband, Rene, prefers garlic maple liver. When Elaine makes it, she doesn’t use the bacon or onion and she adds the garlic when the liver is almost done because it burns easily. 

Elaine prefers the Tex-Mex recipe, but she doesn’t make it as often as she does the garlic maple one. The garlic maple liver recipe is from a 1993 issue of T.V. Guide and the recipe as shown serves two. The Tex-Mex recipe makes 4 servings and the description states that it is a delicious dish and an excellent source of iron. 

Both of the fried liver and veggies and the baked liver recipes are from an old handwritten cookbook of my grandmother’s. A note on the top of the page says “John (my grandpa) loves this, but Anne and Russell (my brother) don’t. I make their favourite dessert – banana cake – on the day I cook liver so they will eat it.” We didn’t get dessert unless our plates were clean.