Ox heart is not something you see every day in the average (super)market, but when you do, it is definitely worth snapping up. As a member of the offal family, it comes dirt cheap, but it can be prepared in…
Ox heart is not something you see every day in the average (super)market, but when you do, it is definitely worth snapping up. As a member of the offal family, it comes dirt cheap, but it can be prepared in…
Maybe I ought to call this one Planning for Turkey Leftovers, since I’m still in the middle of things. Yes, Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and our not-quite-on-the-day-because-it-isn’t-a-holiday-here celebrations have also come and gone. Although the repeated practice of years…
There is a strange phenomenon here in Wales: sheep appear to be everywhere in the countryside, and lamb meat is readily available in the shops, but it’s mostly imported New Zealand lamb. I’m not entirely sure where most of the Welsh…
Unlike my first post about fish leftovers, which included some serious advance planning to use a large, banquet sized fish which could give 15 or 20 people a main course, this one is about using a medium sized fish which could feed…
We’ve been busier than usual this season, between normal work, spring-time demands in the garden, allotment and apiary and a health crisis which put my very elderly mother-in-law in hospital a couple of weeks ago (she’s much improved, thank you, though…
Surely you knew this was coming? (See yesterday’s chat and recipe for Roasted Belly Pork if you need a reminder.) In addition to working on clearing out the freezer (still!) prior to a big defrosting job, I’m also working on…
I have been working on clearing out my chest freezer this winter in anticipation of a major defrosting session (and maybe replacement with an upright which I find much easier to use), and so have been avoiding purchasing ‘meat for…
Admit it. A month after the big holiday binge and subsequent self-denying resolutions, it’s easy to feel deflated. Even if you neither binged nor made harsh resolutions, we’re still in the middle of a dreary season here in the northern…
To my knowledge, I only ever ate oxtail once when I was growing up, when our Filipino exchange student’s grandmother was visiting and doing all the cooking around graduation time. Next to all the other exotic foods we sampled, it…
How many times have you acquired a bigger bird than you really need for a holiday celebration, just in case? I allowed myself to be talked into buying a much bigger turkey than I planned on for Thanksgiving because I…
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