The crispy Holy Grail
I paid a visit to the lovely Berkswell farm shop again this weekend. We decided to do a Jamie Oliver dish (from his most recent book Cook with Jamie) that we have done a couple of times now, which is slow-roast duck pasta. They didn’t have any fresh duck unfortunately, but we got a frozen one which was a little pricey at £10, but the skin actually crisped up a bit better without any wailing or sacrificing of virgins (I retract my obsenities hurled at chefs, all I needed to do was get a hold of a decent duck).
I also made an Irish stew (I’ve got to uphold the stereotype somehow) at the weekend so I asked for some cheap cut of lamb, neck or something like that. The butcher said he had some North Ronaldsay lamb chops (the world renowned seaweed eating ones from the Orkney Islands, which are off the North coast of Scotland) but that it was more like mutton so could do with a bit of stewing. The flavour was lovely and he gave it to us for the price of neck so it was all good. We also got some of their own dry cured bacon and old fashioned thick pork sausages, both of which went down very nicely for lunch (the diet starts tomorrow).
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