Fawn from Faun's
On Saturday, needing to travel down beyond Taunton to talk vans with a man, Moonface & I went for a walk along the Quantocks. After so many weeks of fine weather, autumn seemed to have arrived with a keen wind and a numbing cold, so we cut the walk short and tried to keep off the ridges and into the wind-shadow to protect ourselves from the worst of it. We're just not used to being cold now.
En route, we stopped in Nether Stowey to grab something for lunch. The butcher there, Faun's, is fabulous. We buy their pies when we can, but there were none available this weekend. However, they did have some rolled shoulder of venison, and at a ridiculously cheap price. Fresh from the hills, I suppose. We bought the smaller piece (3lb 13oz, £8) as well as some duck, local cheese and locally smoked mackerel.
Yesterday I cooked the meat: slow pot-roasted and surrounded by Moonface's home-grown onions, with odd herbs, crushed (frozen) redcurrants and juniper berries. I was worried about half-way through the cooking, that there was too much liquid thrown out from the meat and vegetables, but after another hour or two this had reduced to an acceptably thick gravy.
And the venison was delicious: tender and deeply flavoured, warming for the first cold weekend of the season. With baked potatoes (again, home-grown) to soak up the juices, I was very pleased with myself. Since there were only three of us, we didn't eat more than a third of the meat so it looks as if we will have curry later this week. After an apple crumble for pudding, I was full and happy. Yum.
:o)
En route, we stopped in Nether Stowey to grab something for lunch. The butcher there, Faun's, is fabulous. We buy their pies when we can, but there were none available this weekend. However, they did have some rolled shoulder of venison, and at a ridiculously cheap price. Fresh from the hills, I suppose. We bought the smaller piece (3lb 13oz, £8) as well as some duck, local cheese and locally smoked mackerel.
Yesterday I cooked the meat: slow pot-roasted and surrounded by Moonface's home-grown onions, with odd herbs, crushed (frozen) redcurrants and juniper berries. I was worried about half-way through the cooking, that there was too much liquid thrown out from the meat and vegetables, but after another hour or two this had reduced to an acceptably thick gravy.
And the venison was delicious: tender and deeply flavoured, warming for the first cold weekend of the season. With baked potatoes (again, home-grown) to soak up the juices, I was very pleased with myself. Since there were only three of us, we didn't eat more than a third of the meat so it looks as if we will have curry later this week. After an apple crumble for pudding, I was full and happy. Yum.
:o)
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