We stopped in today at Heggies, a recommended butcher, on our way to Sainsbury's (one of our local grocery choices.) Very clean, very well presented meats. You see a lot of what you see in the States, but a few things that you wouldn't typically see:
- Lots of Blood Pudding (aka Black Pudding)
- Pre-Marinated Chicken Tikka Masala (the most popular food in England, even more so than fish and chips!)
- Lamb shanks
- Lamb kidneys
- "Raw" Bacon (uncured, unsmoked)
- Gammon -- appears to be a generic term, in this case its ham or pork steaks.
- Pork Belly
- Duck parts besides the breast
- Herefordshire Beef
- Gloucester Old Spot Pork
We bought some pork belly and the closest thing to American bacon we could find (cured and smoked but a wierd cut). We roasted the pork belly, served it with Sainsbury's Organic Watercress, Spinach, and Rocket (wherever an American might expect iceburg lettuce, the Brits have replaced it with rocket -- which is just a different name for arugula) mix, a loaf of crusty bread with roast garlic, some leftover chips (fries), and topped it all with a poached duck egg -- that was Saturday night dinner. I can't complain!The picture of dinner is courtesy of Rachel, but it cost me.
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I think you need some liver and fava beans to go with that nice bottle of Chianti. Sipp, sipp, sipp, sipp, sipp.
i bit my wrists... blah!
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