Pork blood, beef blood, and beef bile

All found today in the Fresh Farms meat department frozen section. I am familiar with blood used in sausage making. A quick internet search for beef bile shows some slim results. They indicate it is apparently used (sparingly) in Filipino cooking, which makes sense, because it was near frozen Filipino sausages and lumpia.

Rene G. mentioned beef bile in his Hmong post.

How is bile different from rennet, anybody know?

Mhays wrote:Rene G. mentioned beef bile in his Hmong post.

How is bile different from rennet, anybody know?

Thanks for the additional information. I will also mention the bile was dark green. I am pretty sure the source for bile is the gall bladder and rennet the stomach.

My experience with beef bile comes from a wonderful Filipino girl I know. Her father made a soup that featured beef bile (in small amounts), potatoes, and tripe. It was, to say the least a challenging dish, definitely near the murky depths of offal-eating. I was the only person besides said girl's father in the entire family who actually finished the plate and asked for more. I don't recall the name of the dish, but I am fairly certain its a Filipino home-made standard. I remember specifically that he cautioned against using more than a few tablespoons of the stuff, as even that was enough to impart a nearly-acrid bitterness to the soup.

Habibi wrote:My experience with beef bile comes from a wonderful Filipino girl I know. Her father made a soup that featured beef bile (in small amounts), potatoes, and tripe. It was, to say the least a challenging dish, definitely near the murky depths of offal-eating.
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I don't recall the name of the dish, but I am fairly certain its a Filipino home-made standard. I remember specifically that he cautioned against using more than a few tablespoons of the stuff, as even that was enough to impart a nearly-acrid bitterness to the soup.

T'was probably papaitan, which means roughly "something that will make bitter" (kanin or foodie1, feel free to jump in and correct my Tagalog). My family isn't Ilocano, but my mom loves all things tripe, so I ate that stew fairly regularly as a kid.