Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

tomterm8

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm assuming it's not the Scilly Isles!

Yeah, that would be silly.






4 of our sheep have gone to slaughter, and the meat is coming tomorrow. Although they are small sheep, there will be quite a lot of it, so has anyone got any good recipies for the cheaper cuts of mutton?

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Hmmm.....100 miles from there puts it in Somerset, East Devon, or maybe even Dorset.

I'm assuming it's not the Scilly Isles!

Wrong, right, wrong, wrong.

Davesnave

tomterm8 wrote: »

4 of our sheep have gone to slaughter, and the meat is coming tomorrow. Although they are small sheep, there will be quite a lot of it, so has anyone got any good recipies for the cheaper cuts of mutton?

Sorry, we normally only do pork & chicken here, and then we're not being quick enough.

Lamb shanks are nice though, and so is moussaka.

How about something a bit different from the guy we all love to hate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spicedmuttonstewwith_8855

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Yeah, that would be silly.






4 of our sheep have gone to slaughter, and the meat is coming tomorrow. Although they are small sheep, there will be quite a lot of it, so has anyone got any good recipies for the cheaper cuts of mutton?

I presume you already make mutton pies....so simple, so yummy!

edit: I have used mutton in stead of goat in West Indian/Carribean type stews....with sweet potato, carrots, coconut stuff like that...

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wrong, right, wrong, wrong.

Wouldn't mind it myself....if we could afford to buy there.

The house we should've bought, before prices went ballistic, is there.

Mind you, if we had, we'd be too close to MIL.

Always a silver lining.

tomterm8

Interesting ideas, thanks LIR and Dave... we don't normally get mutton, we normally take them as lamb or sell them on as lawnmowers to conservation groups, so this is a bit of a change for us. Unfortunatly, with the cuts the conservation groups are buying as many as normal.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Wouldn't mind it myself....if we could afford to buy there.

The house we should've bought, before prices went ballistic, is there.

Mind you, if we had, we'd be too close to MIL.

Always a silver lining.

Cheapest on the Isles at the moment is a 3-bed for £750k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Isles-Of-Scilly-714.html?sortByPriceDescending=false&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cheapest on the Isles at the moment is a 3-bed for £750k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Isles-Of-Scilly-714.html?sortByPriceDescending=false&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on

Wouldn't it be lovely to get away from it all to that extent. Don't suppose there's much work over there though.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Interesting ideas, thanks LIR and Dave... we don't normally get mutton, we normally take them as lamb or sell them on as lawnmowers to conservation groups, so this is a bit of a change for us. Unfortunatly, with the cuts the conservation groups are buying as many as normal.

I really like mutton, but its hard to find.

PasturesNew

treliac wrote: »

Wouldn't it be lovely to get away from it all to that extent. Don't suppose there's much work over there though.

No - and what there is will be NMW if you're not a skilled specialist (vet, Doctor, etc). They don't even need MoTs on cars there because there's not MoT testing station

There's also no post-16 education, so if you want to stay at school after the age of 16 you have to leave the island and go live in Penzance.