Glass of fizz ahead of the chicken skewers meeting their destiny on the Big Green Egg.
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That steak looks prefect! Perfect even!
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Must be the start of Autumn. First blackberry and apple pie of the season, made from the first batch of early blackberries from the border hedgerows.
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Followed by tonight’s evening meal creation - Scottish fresh mussels steamed in white wine, garlic, coriander and peppers with a bed of linguini. Delish !
Brioche bread and butter pudding and vanilla custard for afters followed by a wafffer thin mint…
tl
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Simple things…
My daughter went blackberry picking with her friend a few days ago and got a good haul. Mrs AC made a cracking blackberry crumble the next day.
The best things in life are often free or at least fairly cheap.
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Lamb curry currently in prep. To be followed by apple & blackberry pie plus vanilla custard for afters.
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This year’s bramble and apple jelly and one I made last week. Nothing is wasted as the pulp is composted and comes back as next year’s tomatoes 
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Bought these lamb chops from Waitrose today and as usual, never look at the price when buying. Got a big surprise when unwrapping just now, these were £29 per kg! When did that happen? In my mind, they’ve always been £14-£16. I’ve missed out a few years somewhere. Thing is, I’ve bought loads of lamb chops in the past year, but never looked.
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We buy our Lamb bought at bookers……even their chops seem expensive.
I think lamb shoulder at the local Waitrose was around £9.50/kg a few years ago, £12 or so post-pandemic, now £14.50/kg.
Their chicken breasts for 1kg or so remain pretty good value.
Local store has replaced most manned tills by self-service checkouts and rearranged everything to confuse me. I have been Victor Meldrew personified shopping there recently, especially despite spending more in recent months I only have crap 50p vouchers again for items I never buy.
8 lamb chops were around £8-£9 in Lidl recently - I though that was expensive, maybe not, but much thinner than yours look.
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The problem I’ve found with lamb chops is that the usual Tescos, or wherever……. are tough as hell. I buy from Booths or Waitrose and they’re scrumptiously (love this word) soft. Just got a shock at the price.
Anyway, anyone eating them is horrible. Poor lambs. (Not a joke) I’m a hypocrite.
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I find the same with steak - thick M&S steaks used to be great then the store shut. Sainsbury’s thick ribeye are excellent but have gone up from £9 to £10.50 recently but still worth it.
Waitrose Côte de boeuf is fantastic - not cheap but less than at a good restaurant steak.
Most of the supermarket ’Tomahawk’ steaks I’ve tried are dire (including Waitrose).
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Waitrose Côte de boeuf is so ridiculously expensive, I’m amazed anyone buys it. Last time I bought it was a couple of years ago. Maybe should try it again.
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It is very good though, and at least locally I think a couple of £25-£30 ones would cost well over £100 without veg in local restaurants. We don’t eat out that often so I can justify it occasionally.
Crumbs, I’d not noticed it’s £40/kg these days
The chateaubriand is new locally and £50/kg. Why can they express that as £5/100g? Inconsistency of pricing metrics really annoys me.
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Yes they do the per 100g instead of per kg when it gets even more expensive. I love maths and especially in supermarkets.
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Lamb, like all stock, are becoming increasingly expensive to rear, which is reflected in wholesale prices. For anyone interested AHDB have the stats.
