Into the world of good meat

I’m sitting here expectantly. I’m really quite excited. We’re expecting our first meat delivery from the farm where we used to buy most of our meat at the farmers’ market.

We’ve sadly missed this market. Even in the days when we lived at Arnside we used to buy meat from this stall, only then there was a market on Carnforth station.

The farm does have a farm shop, but the farm is the other side of Lancaster. And you know how much we hate trying to get through Lancaster. We rarely venture into town, & even more rarely at an appropriate time for the shop to be open – it opens from 4-6pm, just at the main rush hour time out of Lancaster as shoppers, school children in their parent’s cars & office workers, all head home.

So we’re really pleased to receive an offer of free delivery, providing we don’t mind the delivery being done when he is delivering to some nearby nurseries – we envy those young children, school meals must have gone up since our day!

Anyhow, the result is that we’re on our way back into the world of good quality meat, meat with flavour.

Since Morecambe Farmers’ Market gave up about a year ago, we’ve tried various butchers. We did think we’d found the solution, only to find when we came back from our holidays, the butcher shop had closed – there’s a wool shop there instead now. We’ve tried meat from the Caton Farmers’ Market & the Lancaster street market but it just isn’t as good. The meat from the supermarket is OK rather than exceptional.

So now I await a phone call from Jim, the farmer, to tell me when he’s coming & to get instructions as to how to find us.

I’m already slavouring at the idea of Friday’s dinner – cheesy baked mushrooms with the usual accompaniments of breakfast i.e. Jim’s sausages, bacon & black pudding, along with some scrambled eggs & chips. The idea of good sausages, bacon & black pudding once more…mmmm….sheer heaven!