Domestic goddess rating: 10% Five-a-day: 4/5 Food miles: not too sure really
On the menu: Muesli and juice (breakfast); nibbles at a press do (lunch); pasta and (tinned) tomato sauce (supper)
Not exactly a virtuously seasonal day today – but I was out in London all day at a press conference. There were some fancy nibbles laid on for lunch – eating out is a little tricky when you’re trying to be seasonal as you have to second-guess what’s in everything. But I’m not going to turn down a free lunch so I just picked what I thought fitted the bill.
As you’ll probably have noticed by now, we do eat meat, and meat also follows the seasons to some extent. Being a bit of a seasonal-eating virgin, I’m not too clear as to what’s in season when, but we’ve been doing our little bit to try to fit in to what’s available. So we’ve chatted up the local smallholder, a very friendly and easy-going bloke called Howard who has a small flock of sheep in a field just down the road from us.
He’s been getting his lambs ready for slaughter in the last few weeks or so, and the other day he came up trumps, so we’ve now got one of his year-old lambs in our freezer. It’s great meat, and at £75 for a whole lamb – that’s four good Sunday joints, a good two-dozen chops and a couple of kilos of lamb mince – it’s almost supermarket prices. And best of all, it’s got about half-a-food-mile on the clock. Perfect.
Filed under: Seasonal eating | Tagged: eating out, meat
