Here’s a quick and easy dinner (plus next day’s lunch) from my Dunwood Farm meat box. I used two Longhorn 28 day matured minute steaks to create a quick and easy steak sandwich. For clarity, I should mention that this sandwich will probably take you seven minutes to make, not just the one! You should also know that as the days get shorter, all my photos will be shot in unnatural light and have this garish yellow hue. Yuck! Continue reading
At dinner with some friends the other night, Anton (who is German) said that calling food ‘Bavarian’ is meant to be an insult… I imagine that it’s a reference to heavy, stodgy food: knödel, wurst and the like. I cooked my latest item from the Roaming Roosters meat box and the thought of ‘Bavarian’ did come to mind, amusingly. Not least because these were four very big and hearty sausages. Continue reading
I haven’t had proper bacon for at least four months, since I started Meat in a Box. Is that hard to believe? I’m not a bacon type of person; I never crave it. And yes, maybe I’ve had it wrapped around the occasional pheasant, but that’s about it. But I don’t underestimate the power of bacon. For some people bacon is a weekly – if not morning-ly – necessity. Bacon is what they say turns a vegetarian… Perhaps the reason I’m not a ‘bacon’ person is that most of the stuff you get in supermarkets are like sub-standard, watery tendrils of fat. And it’s rather salty for my personal taste. BUT there are times when bacon seems so perfect, and makes so much sense in the world – like when paired with egg and ketchup in a toasted sandwich. It’s one of the most satisfying meals you could ever eat. Continue reading
I was delighted that one of the items from the Well Hung Meat Company‘s meat box was a pack of charcuterie. In particular, some silverside beef pastrami. I love the way the fat streaks across the pastrami like white lightning. Continue reading
