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[struth]

Lol... Was that a serious answer? Consider my Italian heritage and that I've been a 'foodie' since about 5!

Marco.

Antipasto and Cannoli

[Roy S]

Have you given up using your local butcher, Roy, or is that deemed currently by the powers that be as a 'non-essential journey'?

Just been easier getting stuff delivered being in the 'high risk' category (get my first jab later today). Only used that butchers as I was over that way at the dentist but will go back.

[Marco]

Cool beans, mate. Didn't realise you had health problems - what puts you in the 'high risk category, then?

Marco.

[guy]

Just back from fairly local butcher: venison and blueberry sausages, treacle cured bacon, dry cure bacon offcuts (for making a tomato sauce), oak smoked gammon (to be boiled in home brew cider before short roast with mustard and brown sugar glaze), going back on Tuesday as he is getting some ox tail in for me.

Something very satisfying about getting home from the butcher - primal hunter/gatherer needs?

[Marco]

Antipasto and Cannoli

Hahahaha... You're not far off, mate!

Cannoli are a southern Italian thing, but Antipasto, defo... My fav food though, even as a 5-year old, was my mum's homemade spinach and ricotta cannelloni with meat/ragu sauce - and yes washed down with a glass of Chianti [well, more water than Chianti, but there was a bit in!]

Marco.

[struth]

i like good cannelloni myself but hard to find ready made now, and im to clumsy

[Macca]

Just back from fairly local butcher: venison and blueberry sausages, treacle cured bacon, dry cure bacon offcuts (for making a tomato sauce), oak smoked gammon (to be boiled in home brew cider before short roast with mustard and brown sugar glaze), going back on Tuesday as he is getting some ox tail in for me.

Something very satisfying about getting home from the butcher - primal hunter/gatherer needs?

yes, successful hunting expedition. Bringing home the bacon. Literally.

[Marco]

i like good cannelloni myself but hard to find ready made now, and im to clumsy

My mum's were legendary, mate. Made her own pasta from scratch, to start, then the filling and sauce... Just to die for. You'd have loved them!

But yeah, I wasn't a stranger to that stuff at that age - just a big difference in food cultures - and other favourites were veal escalopes, pan-fried in breadcrumbs, or veal chops, marinated in fresh rosemary and thyme from our garden, lemon sole with capers and butter [fish sourced from the village fishmonger], porcini mushroom risotto, chicken in white wine and tomatoes - homemade tiramisu, all sorts, mate.

I was eating well, long before I met Del. Just fortunate that her Welsh/German/Croatian heritage had a similar food culture [she'd also been brought up on home-cooked food, and indeed learned how to do things in the kitchen from when she was 4], and so I moved from living with one great cook to another!

Marco.

[Marco]

Just back from fairly local butcher: venison and blueberry sausages, treacle cured bacon, dry cure bacon offcuts (for making a tomato sauce), oak smoked gammon (to be boiled in home brew cider before short roast with mustard and brown sugar glaze), going back on Tuesday as he is getting some ox tail in for me.

Something very satisfying about getting home from the butcher - primal hunter/gatherer needs?

Yeah, WAY better and more rewarding than sitting clicking a mouse, innit?

The feel good factor alone, from getting out and about and meeting people you know, as we've built up a great rapport with our local butcher [Del takes him in a big bag of fresh herbs from our garden, which he either uses to decorate the meat on display or gives to his best customers], is wonderful, and the whole experience just more 'human' and real.

I've vowed that unless I'm disabled or ill to the extent that I can't shop physically, I'll never have stuff delivered. My dad's nearly 88 and still does all his own shopping, and wouldn't have it any other way, until he has no choice otherwise. I respect those who through ill health or disability can't shop physically, but have little time for all the lazy bastards who are plenty fit enough to go round a supermarket, but can't be arsed shifting their corpulent bottoms from the sofa!!

Marco.

[Roy S]

Cool beans, mate. Didn't realise you had health problems - what puts you in the 'high risk category, then?

Marco.

The parkinson’s can cause respiratory problems


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