Since we seem to be on a placenta kick - I FOUND RECIPES!

[matcom]

Cooking Your Placenta!



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There are several sumptuous recipes around so that you can enjoy cooking and eating your placenta;
this one is for roasting it:-


Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes.


Roast Placenta
1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old)
1 onion
1 green or red pepper (green will add colour)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 tspn bay leaves
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)


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Method


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(Preheat oven to 350 degrees)
Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs.
Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce.
Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid.
Serve and enjoy!


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Dehydrating your placenta!


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Instead of cooking your placenta whole, you can dehydrate it and then add it to meals! The following method is extracted from an article entitled "Thinking About Eating Your Placenta?" by Susan James, which appeared in the winter 1996 issue of "The Compleat Mother". It was discovered posted on a newsgroup noticeboard, so we cannot absolutely guarantee its authenticity, or that it is an actual verbatim account of the magazine article.


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Method


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"Cut off the cord and membranes. Steam the placenta, adding lemon grass, pepper and ginger to the steaming water. The placenta is "done" when no blood comes out when you pierce it with a fork. Cut the placenta into thin slices (like making jerky) and bake in a low-heat oven (200-250 degrees F), until it is dry and crumbly (several hours). Crush the placenta into a powder - using a food processor, blender, mortar and pestle, or by putting it in a bag and grinding it with rocks. Put the powder into empty gel caps (available at drug and health food stores) or just add a spoonful to your cereal, blender drink, etc. The recommended doses vary, some suggest up to 4 capsules a day, others just one. Perhaps the best advice is to take what makes you feel good".

If you think this is bad, try looking at the following website which has a section called Umbilical Cord Care/Placenta Questions!

If anyone has tried eating their placenta - dried or otherwise, perhaps they could let us know what it was like?!

http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm

[GOPisEvil]

1. Oh. My. Goodness.

Wow.

[matcom]

2. Google returns 126,000 listings

for placenta recipe :D

[GOPisEvil]

4. OK - that's shocking.

That's a lot of recipes. :D

[matcom]

5. 55 when you search for EVOO+placenta+recipe

:bounce:

[kick-ass-bob]

6. check out my placenta pizza.

[GOPisEvil]

13. How about a placenta sammie?

:bounce:

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Holy. Shit.

:o

Placenta Spaghetti:
Cut meat of 3/4 placenta into bite size pieces, then brown quickly in 1 tbl. butter plus 1 tbl. oil. Then add 1 large can tomato puree, 2 cans crushed pear tomatoes, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 tbl. molasses, 1 bay leaf, 1 tbl. rosemary, 1 tsp. ea. of salt, honey, oregano, basil, and fennel. Simmer 1 1/2 hours.

Placenta Stew:
Meat of 3/4 placenta in bite size chunks, 1 potato (cubed), 1/4 cup fresh parsley, 2 carrots, 3 ribs celery, 1 zucchini, 1 large tomato, 1 small onion. Dredge meat in 1 tbl. flour mixed with 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. paprika, pinch of cloves, pinch of pepper, 6-8 crushed coriander seeds. Saute meat in 2 tbl. oil, then add vegetables (cut up) and 4-5 cups of water. Bring to full boil, then simmer for 1 hour.

Placenta Pizza:
Grind placenta. Saute in 2 tbl. olive oil with 4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp. fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme, and 1/4 cup of wine. Allow to stand for 30 minutes, then use with your favorite home made pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping.

[cssmall]

7. Oh, so if you post it, everyone pays attention to it, but

since I beat you to it, I don't get anything. :cry:

:rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

9. you only posted links.

you gotta appease the masses - give em a teaser.

:P

[matcom]

10. lol. sorry.

just saw yours :D

[cssmall]

15. Don't give a shit.

It's funny either way. :D

I mean, really fun. But, if any of my peers found me writing this, I'm sure I would be crucified for it. So, I'm goin' incognito. :yoiks:

[fleabert]

8. the people I know that did something with the placenta

(besides letting a hospital throw it in the trash as medical waste) was primarily to plant it under a tree for the kiddo. I do know one family that eats a small piece after the birth to aid in the birth process, it supposed to help the uterus return to it's former shape, stop bleeding, and aid the production of breastmilk. They eat the piece raw.

it's very normal for mammals to eat the placenta.

[DS1]

11. Dehydrated Placenta... So that's like what.. Kid Jerky?

:9

[matcom]

12. hey. i'd take THAT kid to a restaurant!

:bounce:

[DS1]

14. I want the unborn in my lobster tanks, awaiting selection for stirfry

[Dangerously Amused]

16. Okay, I'm grossed out by this, but I'M a vegetarian.

Why are the rest of you saying "yuck"?


Y'all eat flesh and innards and organs and skin and blood and veins and such all the time.


Why is this any different? Is it because the rest of the times you don't think about where the stuff you put in your mouth actually comes from?



I dunno, seems just as ghoulish to me.

[anarch]

17. so, is it considered rude to hang around maternity wards,

and ask the brand-new parents, "say, you all gonna eat that placenta?" 'Cause, you know, there are hungry people who can use it, if they're not....

On a marginally related note, I once knew some people who killed a snake in their garden, and their neighbors did in fact ask, "are you all gonna eat that?"

[Strong Atheist]

18. This has to be one of the more

disgusting things that you have posted ...:-(