Featured Finds Thread

Davey .. I remember most of those foods, my father LOVED jellied eels, Bread and dripping was a staple in our house too .. also rabbit. My father once brought a live rabbit home and I began to make a pet of it .. I named it fluffy .. one day he was gone from his cage and at dinnertime ( 12 noon on the dot) I asked where Fluffy was and my father said "we're eating him" !!! I can NEVER forget my horror and anguish, he could have said" I set him free" but that was the cruelty of my father. I actually hated his guts. ... Joy.

 

Now that's a nasty thing to do to a kid. It might have been enough to turn me into a vegetarian.

 

@daveydempsey . I think this is what some are learning again. I grew up knowing how not to waste food. Ma didn't force me to eat things I hated, but she and my other female relatives were brilliant at using stuff up. So am I.

I still love offal when I can get it, but of course, much is now wildly expensive. Calves liver, for example, which is to die for. And lamb kidneys, which I adore. They're also very good for you.

Eating only supposedly prime cuts leads to appalling farming practices and horrible offensive amounts of waste. Plus, non prime cuts, cooked properly, have way more taste. Flank and skirt of beef, belly pork and breast of lamb are delicious. So is neck of lamb.

 

Both my parents grew up in Europe (dad in Poland, mom in England) during WW2. They were used to eating some odd items and, it seems, even developed a taste for them. Now, most of us here are lucky enough to be living in a land/time of plenty.

 

My parents were both Depression babies and WWII kids. Mom never served the "off cuts", probably because Dad couldn't stand them. Now they're usually crazy expensive. Flank steak, brisket, etc are ridiculous now. You can't get the hearts for love or money. Brains either (animal or functioning human ... but that's another gray matter)

 

Davey .. Do they still have Savaloy sausage there !! .. I DID like those ... Joy.

 

Plus Hovis bread and treacle ...

 

Yorkshire Pudding, Bangers and Mash, Cornish Pasties ....

 

Crackling from the Ham ....

 

is this still the finds thread..?....................................................

 

I guess no one is finding anything good so we have to talk about something. However I am still trying to un-see the one post from last night.

 

I finally found some stuff on Thursday, but have to upload the photo. It's still in my camera.

 

Belly pork is the best roast for crackling. Breast of lamb, like flank, skirt and brisket has the best flavour. I eat lamb ribs when I go to our local Afghan restaurant. A great pile of them, charcoal grilled, sweet and joyous. I find fillet steak quite tasteless: no fat and too often dry. Give me a ribeye. Which used to be cheap, till people discovered it.

I'm with you Davey, real food please. Local pub, which is closed for all except delivery, brought my roast lamb dinner last night. I swear there was a pound of meat. Slow roasted leg, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, proper mash, roasties, a tub of gravy and a pot of mint sauce. Yum.

 

Yumm, pig trotters (they are boiled cooked first) breaded and roasted, crisp and tender... Want some now!

 

OK, finally got off my duff and took a few photos!

First a 900 silver garnet ring made in Cold War era Czechoslovakia:


2 garnet bar pins, the rectangle is Victorian, I think the other is a bit newer based on the hinge and clasp:


And a sweet garnet necklace

 

Phroar.