SECRET STEAKS REVEALED!

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It’s National Butcher’s Week from 14th – 20th March and we are celebrating by reducing all of our Welsh Wagyu Beef “Secret Steaks” by 20% !!   These are cuts that are often only familiar to butchers and chefs, but which, with careful handling, will produce the most amazing results for your dining table.

Delmonico

The Delmonico is actually from the end of the rib – and this wonderful steak/chop will serve two easily, weighing about 700g in total.    There again, ONE hungry man can also dispatch his own Delmonico with little or no incentive necessary!

Roasted Lamb in Antonia’s Restaurant, Alaro, Majorca

Roasted Lamb in Antonia’s Restaurant, Alaro, Majorca

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If you haven’t been to Antonia’s Restaurant in Majorca….. you really have to make the effort to go,  I promise you ! As one of Rick Stein’s Super Heroes myself (oooh name dropper!) I often wish I could walk in the great chef’s footsteps and on this occasion I was really happy to do so.

We had the opportunity, whilst in Menorca on holiday recently, to pay a brief visit to my youngest son on the lovely Isle of Majorca, when he promised to take us up into the mountains to visit Antonia’s Restaurant in Alaro.    The drive is terrifyingly steep with many hairpin bends and lots of scary reversing because its only wide enough for one vehicle!

The quaint interior of Restaurant Es Verger

The quaint interior of Restaurant Es Verger

 

My son just kept saying, you’ll love it, its worth it, this will all be worthwhile!  He was absolutely right and, it goes without saying really, so was Rick.   I have since looked up the clip of him eating at the Restaurant and it is all just exactly as he described, down to the very dress Antonia is wearing!  The lamb was superb, easily the best I have ever eaten,  it is slow cooked with beer, or lager, and water … in wonderful woodfired ovens that you can smell as you walk in the restaurant, and served very simply with salad and roasted potatoes, but then it needs nothing more.  Yes, the scary drive was very worthwhile – everyone who was there seemed to be ordering the lamb – I can’t think why!   You can find a clip of Rick Stein’s visit too on You Tube, search for Antonia’s Roasted Mountain Lamb.  Have you ever been there?

 

High in the mountains of Majorca is The Lamb Restaurant

 

Shetland Sheep in Shropshire ?

Shetland Sheep in Shropshire ?

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Shetland Sheep in Field
When I received a phone call recently from Brian Hogan, I was surprised and delighted to hear that in fact there ARE Shetland Sheep in Shropshire!  On his small-holding, a few miles outside Shrewsbury, we were to find a lovely herd of these tiny sheep grazing and generally being sheepish …. and best of all, he was looking for somewhere to market his lambs this November.    Us Us ! we cried … and promptly made an appointment to trot down there and meet the sheep in question for ourselves.

The sheep are very, very small.  They are also very, very woolly! and having visited the Shetlands myself last year, I can completely understand the need for all that lovely warm fleece!  We inspected the herd, met the lambs and ewes and then also the rams – about half a dozen of up and coming youngsters complete with rounded horns and a very curious nature – but luckily for myself and Rachel, also possessing a very sweet temperament.

Meeting and Greeting taken care of, we then talked sheep with Mr and Mrs Hogan and have made arrangements to take delivery of about a dozen Shetland lambs in November ….. Keep a weather eye open for them appearing on our website!  In the meantime, if you don’t mind us dressing up some lamb as mutton, you can try our Herdwick Mutton

Thanks to Andrew Writer for the image used

Have you ever seen a Shetland Sheep or know of a rare breed near you?  Please leave your comment below, we’d love to hear!

 

Introducing Tastebuds

Introducing Tastebuds

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Welcome to the sister-website of www.alternativemeats.co.uk,  where you will find lots of great information,  recipe suggestions, cooking tips and menus,  as well as other food blogs from friends and colleagues.    We will also be featuring some of the fantastic hotels and restaurants that we supply across the country to give you fresh new ideas about where to visit and find fabulous food and a friendly welcome.

 

 

About Alternative Meats

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Bringing delicious, different and exciting meats to the plates of thousands, both in their homes and in restaurants is what Alternative Meats is all about. The company started from the passion of a dynamic duo, Rachel and Jeanette, who run and manage the company today. Their experience was in the British Ostrich Industry and this interest in an unusual meat has extended to a comprehensive range of Alternative Meats for you to enjoy.

Originally, the girls specialised in British Ostrich Meat, and British Wild Game, taking birds from local shoots in Shropshire and Cheshire.  Their range has greatly increased and continues to grow on demand from customers seeking out more and more unusual products. The exotic product list now has now been extended and molded into a Deliciously Different British Range, which includes Rose Veal from Cumbria, Welsh Wagyu Beef from Montgomeryshire, Kid Goat from Cheshire, Wild Boar from Scotland and Water Buffalo from Southern England.

Where possible, products are sourced from within the British Isles, but due to repeated requests for even more exotic products, Alternative Meats such as Crocodile, Buffalo, Kangaroo, Kudu, Springbok, Blesbok and Zebra have now been sourced from overseas.

The girls now have a team that works from purpose built premises on the Shropshire/Cheshire border and they ship their products nationwide on a daily basis.  They supply to many celebrity chefs including Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa Butchery and Restaurant, and three of Tom Aikens Restaurants in London, and have also made several appearances on television and radio themselves.

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