Braised honeycomb Beef tripe

This is another of my favorite child hood dishes i love it when my mom makes it.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs honeycomb Beef tripe
• 6 med onions
• 8 cloves garlic
• salt pepper to taste
• 2 bay leaves
• fat/oil to cook

Directions:

Boil tripe for 15 minutes. discard water, rinse tripe under cold water to cool. Ring tripe out (like a towel) to remove excess water. Cut tripe into bite size pieces. I cut 2-3 inch strips and cut those into triangles. while tripe is boiling rough cut onions and saute in fat/oil (I used duck fat that I rendered and have sitting in the fridge). Saute onions on med heat until browned. When onions are almost done add chopped garlic. I use 2 med non-stick pans and saute simultaneously. add salt/pepper to taste to onions as they are sauteing. Take a heavy iron pot like a dutch oven and placed browned onions in it. using the onion pans saute tripe until browned. if a lot of water is rendered out, just drain and continue, otherwise it will take a long time to brown the tripe. Place tripe in the heavy pot along with 3-4 bay leaves. Mix to distribute the onions. deglaze pans with water or stock or white wine if you have it around, add liquid to pot. there should be about 1/3 liquid in the pot. place on med heat and reduce to low heat in 5-10 min. cook on low heat for 3 hours or until the onions have dissolved forming a sauce and the tripe is tender. if there is a lot of liquid open the lid a bit an allow the liquid to reduce to a thick sweet onoiny sauce.