Christmas food

[Superhudd]

Can anyone recommend a farm shop that sells there own meats, either in the Essex area or North Kent.

I asked the question last year too.. anyone got any hidden jewels they would like to share.

There does seem to be a lot more web sites around than last time I checked.

Hopefully people will prefer to go straight to the farmers and not to the big shareholder profit driven supermarkets.


At the minute we have our eye on a farm from Isle of Wight, they do three birds which serves 20 cost £80 which is £4 a head which is IMO just below an average steak in the supermarket.

Also another looks good too.

 

[Mulletperm]

Whenever we visited the Isle of Wight we used to pop in there. Lovely quality produce.

 

[Superhudd]

The M&S bird in a bird 4.5kg is £120

Also look at the colour of the M&S, looks like its been bleached.

 

[Superhudd]

From that other Farm I linked.. look at the colour of the breast meat. It should not be white and sterile and have the look of having been pumped with GHod knows what.

 

[Eriktheviking]

Just ordered my rib of beef from Waitrose, was lovely last year.

 

[Superhudd]

Was the fat on the beef a yellow colour. Love beef joints when they have large amounts of fat on them. Supermarkets nowadays lay a layer of thin fat on top which doesn't cut it IMO. THe yellow fat is a sign that it has basically grazed on grass all it's life and not supplemented with crap. If you get the right amount of fat it goes like bacon and is really delicious. Cannot beat roast potatoes done with beef joints too. The natural sugars that come from the meat make the potatoes all goey and sticky.. dare I say almost marmite like.

 

[Eriktheviking]

Cant remember any fat, dont think a rib does as you describe it.

 

[Superhudd]

Rib joint does, having looked at waitrose they have yellow fat.

It's meat like this joint that people should avoid, bad topside.

Good beef.. Brisket

 

[NickTB]

Amazing free range organic meat here 2 minutes from the M25 in Brentwood

 

[africanspurs]

what happens when you eat too much vegetables in one sitting?

am talking like a BIG bowl of stir fry mix veg, chopped onion, tomatoes, boiled mix veg, sweetcorn, baby carrots.

if you at JUST that until you felt like bursting...what happens as far as the body's workings / digestion..****ting etc etc. does the excess stay in your stomach or does it turn to fat?

 

[NickTB]

Was the fat on the beef a yellow colour. Love beef joints when they have large amounts of fat on them. Supermarkets nowadays lay a layer of thin fat on top which doesn't cut it IMO. THe yellow fat is a sign that it has basically grazed on grass all it's life and not supplemented with crap. If you get the right amount of fat it goes like bacon and is really delicious. Cannot beat roast potatoes done with beef joints too. The natural sugars that come from the meat make the potatoes all goey and sticky.. dare I say almost marmite like.

I was a butcher many moons ago. The white fat is added after the joint is prepared. It's taken from the groin area of the cattle (cod fat) and laid over the meat and tied on to hold it in place. The yellow fat you mention is naturally (attached) fat that's part of the meat. This is where the real flavour is. IMO you cannot beat the taste of a rare forerib which is marbled with fat through it. In fact f u c k it, that's this weekend's Sunday dinner sorted

 

[scaramanga]

I will never, ever cook another Christmas meal.

Last Christmas the wife and I went out for Christmas dinner at a restaurant and it's the best thing we ever did. No prep, no cooking and most importantly, no tidying. A short wander home after a couple of bottles of wine = perfect Christmas.

 

[Superhudd]

Thats a good move when its just the two of you. Its not what the in laws expect though. Driving down to Rocksalt over the holidays. should be good. Staying overnight.

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