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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 25 8:50 am Post subject:
I am thinking of buying some haunch for roast this week. About the same price as topside of beef where I shop. The stewing venison done in the slow cooker with veg and a stock including a bit of home made bramble wine and a drop of port is amazing.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9929
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 25 4:30 pm Post subject:
I can get venison locally that is very ethically sourced, and the prices are good compared to beef. Also they don't hang it too long, which is great as I dislike the flavour of 'well hung' meat.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 25 4:31 pm Post subject:
btw dinner tonight - pizza. hm sourdough base, hm tomato sauce (from home grown tomatoes natch) I bought the cheese and mushrooms

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 25 9:02 am Post subject:

Sounds good Nicky. I have some left over roast lamb and will be cooking that up with a leek. Not decided quite how the rest will go, but will see. My garden was a disaster last year, so all I got were potatoes, and they are finished now, so having to buy all veg. On the whole I try to buy as local as I can.

The butcher I go to is pretty good. They also do wild rabbit and do have some frozen goat meat too, although I haven't tried that.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 25 10:36 am Post subject:
curry goat is ace(if you like spices) slow cooked like lamb is quite nice it can be a bit chewy for fast cooking unless it has had a thorough marinade in goat softener, some goat needs a few days marinading even for slow cooking

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 25 7:39 am Post subject:
No, not for me unless it is a very mild curry. I have rather sensitive taste buds. I did the lamb with leek and finely diced carrot with the stock I had and thickened it. Flavoured with salt, pepper and a bay leaf. Rather nice, and husband liked it. Usually I do it in a tomato and onion sauce, so thought I would have a change this time.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 25 5:41 pm Post subject:
I made pasta and picked wild garlic which was made into pesto with pine kernels and walnuts. Very nice.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 25 8:30 am Post subject:
Sounds good Jamanda. I am thinking cauliflower cheese for tonight as I have purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflower and calabrese.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9929
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 25 3:02 pm Post subject:

very nice Jamanda

I've not made pasta for a while - mostly since I stopped keeping hens and now no longer have an egg mountain.

but I have been thinking about it as we switched to wholemeal pasta and now prefer it - I can get penne and twists and spaghetti easily but wholewheat lasagne sheets are not easy to lay my hands on, so I shall have to make my own.

Tonight is a fridge leftovers meal sort of day so I am making calabrese leek mushroom and walnut in cream wine garlic sauce, with spaghetti.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9929
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 25 8:14 pm Post subject:
cooked flat-iron steak today - first time I have tried it. That was easy and it was plenty tender. Will definitely be buying that again. served with pak choi and mushrooms and murasaki sweet potato wediges The SP were underwhelming.. supposed to be chestnut in flavour, but I thought they were starchy and bland. Still, always interesting to try something new.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 25 6:40 am Post subject:
I have had sweet potato chips, and they aren't bad, but nothing special to my mind.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9929
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 25 9:00 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I have had sweet potato chips, and they aren't bad, but nothing special to my mind.

normally I like sweet potato wedges - i make from scratch, but these were a different variety and not really like sweet potato

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 25 6:45 am Post subject:

Not a connoisseur of sweet potatoes, but I suppose that there are different varieties, some of which are better for some things than another, the same as with ordinary potatoes. That was a shame.

We had our first barbecue of the season yesterday while we were firing the charcoal kiln. Chops, jacket potatoes, half a sweet pepper each and a piece of courgette. Apart from right at the end when I accidentally got some fat from a chop in the fire, it went quite well as we are out of practise. Tonight we will have omelette with smoked salmon. I usually get the trimmings of salmon, but there weren't any this week, so had to get a small slice, which wasn't much more expensive.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9042
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 25 7:02 am Post subject:

Nicky cigreen wrote:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I have had sweet potato chips, and they aren't bad, but nothing special to my mind.

normally I like sweet potato wedges - i make from scratch, but these were a different variety and not really like sweet potato

The dark red skinned variety with white flesh isn't the most tasty...I go for the ordinary deep orange fleshed ones..very nice when baked or roasted and no need to peel

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