The Christmas double bill!

Hello everyone and sorry for the huge gap between posts. Hope you’ve all had lovely Christmases and Hanukkahs!

In the past two weeks I’ve been to the other side of the world and back, had a quadruple Christmas bonanza and topped it up with a jaunt to Paris. While I recover on a diet of salad and water, here’s the latest in my meat box adventures – the much awaited Christmas Eve venison, followed by a guest appearance from former meat box suppliers Well Hung Meat, in the form of a Christmas Day goose. Enjoy!

Christmas Eve | Blackface saddle of roe

The real statement piece of my Blackface meat box was this 1.65kg saddle of roe. At a not inexpensive £46, it was a wonderful alternative to the Christmas bird – so we decided to cook it for our Xmas eve dinner. I can only link you to this comment by my pal Mike T., who draws strangely appropriate comparisons between the saddle and sci-fi horror fest Event Horizon. With the bone in, the saddle really looks gruesome. And that colour IS the actual colour it was. A vivid magenta; the stuff of nightmares.

Blackface pheasant stuffed with haggis

You may have noticed that I have a festive background wallpaper. Meanwhile stockings have gone up, advent candles are being burned, and presents well and truly hidden from prying fingers and eyes. Let’s celebrate the Christmas countdown with a Fake Christmas meal: Blackface pheasant stuffed with haggis!

Venison and partridge game pie

I can’t believe it’s December already – and time to get really festive! Recently I unboxed my third meat box, a hand selected box of game from the Blackface Meat Company. I’d had this idea of working my way through a whole month of Christmas dinners, but even the Christmas enthusiast in me had to admit that was an over-ambitious idea. Not to mention it might dampen my appetite for real Christmas!

Unboxing the Blackface Meat Company

My next and third meat box is <drumroll>… from the Blackface Meat Company! Don’t be alarmed by their name – Blackface is merely taken from the traditional sheep breed of the same name, for which they are famed. Some things you should know about Blackface first:

It’s a Riverford wrap

It’s been a fun-packed month on Meat in a Box, and it’s with a little sadness that I have to wrap the Riverford feature. I must thank Rachel and Vitha from Riverford once again, for kindly sending me a box free of charge to taste and generally being lovely and helpful.