British food?

[Lullabelle]

There's a good fish monger in Wigston outside Wilkinsons if you're in that part of Leicester or passing through. They have good quality fish and game. They even gave me a good recipe for cooking rabit.

We make most of our food from scratch. It was trickier with young children of different ages but now they're all a bit older it's easier to get them involved rather than trying to keep them out of the way. I'm trying to get good at cooking beans, lentils etc to cut down on our outdoor reared, grass fed meat bills! Worth paying for but not cheap.

We bought some lovely scallops and crabs from there, trouble is we have to make a special journey and as we work most Saturdays we cannot take full advantage.

 

[Chris Norton]

Butcher's best ham of the type you describe is more expensive than the mechanically recovered "formed from" junk supermarkets sell. Same deal with the sausages you make yourselves and supermarket "pig lips and a-hole specials". People often don't realise the difference in quality.

The big advantage butchers have on price is through selling the sort of cuts that are difficult to buy in the supermarkets. I love a nice shin of beef stew...

You misread me. The ham is 9 quid a kilo CHEAPER than asda's honey roast ham. I'll say it again CHEAPER. In fact probably all our pork is cheaper, same with the cooked meats.

 

[User482]

You misread me. The ham is 9 quid a kilo CHEAPER than asda's honey roast ham. I'll say it again CHEAPER. In fact probably all our pork is cheaper, same with the cooked meats.

I was referring to the cheaper "formed from" ham, not the honey roast.

 

[Chris Norton]

I bet our std ham is pretty close on price to the formed stuff.

Shin of beef makes lovely stew though. Good dumplings and I reckon if someone eats that and reckons our food is crap then they don't have a palate.