Category Archives: meat products
What I didn’t know about meat. And why Philip Warren butchers are so exceptional
I thought I knew a few things about meat. That is until I met Philip and Ian Warren. And I realised I actually knew nothing. Particularly about the fragile moorland ecosystem that without Warrens, may not exist at all. But … Continue reading
Horse-free and homemade: The Kernow Sausage Company, Cornwall
It’s time for some foodie confessions. 1) I am a food snob; 2) I have a prejudice against processed meat; 3) pork scratchings still rule. The first (and I say this with some smugness) makes it highly unlikely that meat … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, meat products
Tagged horse meat scandal, Kernow Sausage Company, Paul Ainsworth, sausages
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Bringing back the bacon to Cornwall for Farmhouse Breakfast Week
According to Jay Rayner, we may well be sick of hearing about ‘dirty fast food’ in 2012; sick even, of hearing people say they are sick of it. Bacon is different. Unlike sausages, hot dogs and burgers (whose recent ‘inclusive’ … Continue reading
Why vegetarians would eat veal
Turn on the telly and you’re likely to catch a bearded man foraging on Channel 4 or a BBC fledgling MasterChef shouting about seasonal and local; look at your bookshelf and you’ve probably got at least one over-priced TV-endorsed cookbook … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, meat products, Uncategorized
Tagged Bocaddon Farm Veal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Hix, Rose Prince
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A Masterclass in Stock Making from John Walton at Paul Ainsworth’s Number Six, Padstow
(Photos by John Such) With increasing emphasis on homemade, foraged and hand-squeezed by fair maidens from a farm near you, you’d assume that such a basic building block as how to make a good stock would be covered by the … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, fish, meat products, Uncategorized
Tagged Number Six Padstow, Paul Ainsworth, stock
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Knob Ends, Pokers and Cornish Chorizo
With signs to the award-winning Peckish fish ‘n’ chips in Camelford and Aunt Avice’s pasties lighting the way to Deli Farm Charcuterie, I knew I was on the right foodie road. Skinny lanes and high Cornish hedgerows later, I had … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, meat products
Tagged chorizo, Deli Farm Charcuterie, duck prosciutto, Niamh Shields, Nigel Slater, Rick Stein
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Rib-ticklingly good
Ribs. Kidneys. Skin. Trotter. Knuckle. We don’t see them often enough. So ask for them. Change the butcher’s mind. Where there is demand there is supply. These particular ribs were a gift with some sausages and hefty pork chops that … Continue reading
Food furore
This little bunny hops and jumps and stumbles on the latest food trends. I’d rather wait for Clint Eastwood to ride into the distance after nailing a few bad cowboys than for all the dust to settle this week from … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, food fashion, food waste, meat products
Tagged Cornish pasty, freeganism, offal, Rose Prince, Sicily, Tristram Stuart
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The ‘c’ word – Cornish pasties and the PGI
Saffronbunny ‘uncrimps’ the EC PGI for the Cornish pasty To blog about food, from Cornwall, and ignore the great pasty debate would be like trying to tell Hamlet to hurry up or convince Heathcliff that Cathy’s dead: it just ‘ain’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cornish pasties, Cornwall, meat products
Tagged beef, Cornish pasty, onion, pastry, PGI, potato, swede, Tribute
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Pudding for breakfast
In honour of last week’s Farmhouse Breakfast Week, a wee fry-up was in order. I say ‘wee’ meaning small, but heck, it wasn’t small, this was a carnivorous tableau, a paean to mornings, an offering to the breakfast gods. And … Continue reading
