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12 Nov 2018
Feeling Festive – our first Christmas brochure is here.
This year, we’ve gone all out and embarked on our very first Christmas brochure. We s...
MORE 07 Nov 2018
Meat Sheet no.18 Pheasant
Harvest is in, the clocks have changed and salads, picnics and outdoor dining are over for ...
MORE 22 Oct 2018
Stop picking on farmers
Does anyone else feel that since the release a few week’s ago of the UN Intergovernme...
MORE 22 Oct 2018
Meat Sheet no. 17 Ben’s Farm Shop breakfast sausages
If there’s a dish, For which I wish More frequent than the rest, If there’s a f...
MORE 28 Sep 2018
Meat Sheet no.16 Mutton (dressed as mutton) – growing old gracefully
With Prince Charles, Hugh FW and any number of of famous chefs among its members , the mutt...
MORE 12 Sep 2018
Meat Sheet no. 15 Organic Beef Mince
We’ve gone about as simple as we can this time – with our organic minced beef. ...
MORE 16 Aug 2018
Meat Sheet no.14 Leg of Lamb – fast or slow?
Seems, very much, to be the culinary meat question of our time. When peripatetic charcuteri...
MORE 30 Jul 2018
Meat Sheet no. 13 – beef topside for the Summer
It was only a couple of months ago that we did beef topside but although the sun had starte...
MORE 26 Jul 2018
Meat Sheet no.12 – Shoulder of Pork
If Coleman’s is the mustard the British Empire was built on, shoulder of pork has a s...
MORE 02 Jul 2018
Meat sheet No. 11 – Ben’s Farm Shop gammon
Over my years behind the butcher’s counter there have been many a time I’ve been asked what...
MORE 15 Jun 2018
Meat sheet No. 10 – Chicken Breast Fillet
Meat cut of the week – chicken breast fillet Chicken breast fillet might be the nation’s fa...
MORE 06 Jun 2018
Tapas To Go!
We’ve been having a bit of a refurb at the Wine & Tapas Bar to make the two upsta...
MORE 04 Jun 2018
Meat Sheet No. 9 – Leg of Lamb
We all know where leg of lamb comes from, what it looks like and, probably, how to cook it ...
MORE 30 May 2018
Treat yourself to pudding!
Still smarting from a ‘and don’t bother to ask for pudding’ review on the...
MORE 21 May 2018
Meat Sheet No. 8 – Beef Chuck for the BBQ
Chuck, normally sold as braising steak, is the group of muscles around the shoulder, to the...
MORE 15 May 2018
Free Range Pork
As the well informed and Radio 4 farming programme listeners (not necessarily the same thin...
MORE 15 May 2018
Raise a glass of English Fizz
There’s a bit of a do on this weekend – we’ll be open as usual for celebrators ...
MORE 08 May 2018
Meat Sheet No. 7 – Pork Tenderloin
When I started up back in the Jurassic age, pork tenderloin/fillet was all the rage. Chefs ...
MORE 21 Apr 2018
Meat Sheet No. 6 – Beef Topside
Coming up to St George’s Day (April 23rd) and British Beef Week (23rd-30th April) we though...
MORE 06 Apr 2018
Meat Sheet No. 5 – Porking out
Leg of pork is something of an anomaly. Somehow, it has become the nation’s favourite pork ...
MORE 03 Apr 2018
Aloe Vera is here
New in at our Staverton and Yealmpton shops are fresh aloe vera leaves! Put some natural sk...
MORE 29 Mar 2018
The art of smoking
Wild Smoked was born in Cornwall in 2016 and is the brainchild of Ross Waters, who began sm...
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