getting to know your butcher….

[kerrie and stan]

after reading this article last week i went to my butchers and asked if i could have a load of the stuff that they normally throw out.last week i got a couple of rib bones and some scraps of meat, this week however i got a black binbag full of stuff that he would have thrown away.i got

3 x Pork (i think) rib cages
4 x shoulder blades (i think they are shoulder blades)
4 x pig legs (marrow bone type)
loads of scrap meat and skin and other bits
4 x pigs ears
2 x pig heads…..eeeewwwww

i was pocking around in the bag and as i tried to pull a bit of meat out this head came with it  😮 it scarred the life out of me, anyway i have two pigs heads and i have no idea what to do with them because i dont have a pan big enough to fit them in….gonna have to buy a bigger pan :D. my six foot freezer is now totaly filled up with bits for the dogs  😀

[kizkiznobite]

there are posts on here re pigs heads – i feen the all the time – if you cannot find nudge back and i will repeat the info or find for you  🙂

[*Nat*]

Oooh pigs heads – my favourite  😀  ::)  😉 Cooked mine in the oven  ;D Errm can’t remember how long for, but once cooked you cut all the skin and ears off and dry it out in a low oven for treats then you strip all the meat, eye balls  😛 brain  😛 etc…… makes lots of meals, fab!!! Keep trying to get one from my butcher but had no luck yet  :-\

[kerrie and stan]

[quote author=Balmy Bali link=topic=10734.msg205572#msg205572 date=1205428011]
Keep trying to get one from my butcher but had no luck yet  :-\
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well ive got two so if your ver on the island you can have one if you want or i can send it to you  ;D

[kerrie and stan]

[quote author=kizkiznobite link=topic=10734.msg205540#msg205540 date=1205423621]
there are posts on here re pigs heads – i feen the all the time – if you cannot find nudge back and i will repeat the info or find for you  🙂
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i found a couple of posts on pigs head,thanks. i will probly chop them up so they fit in my suacepan,  unless anyone can tell me how to cook it otherwise 🙂 then once cooked i will skin them for treats and tthen put the meat and everything else in with bevs porridge recipie.
i just couldnt beleive how much i got from the butchers and it was all free!!! and he said i could have as much as i wanted wen i wanted it, within reason

[*Nat*]

What Island  ???  ;D

[kizkiznobite]

[quote author=Balmy Bali link=topic=10734.msg205572#msg205572 date=1205428011]
Oooh pigs heads – my favourite  😀  ::)  😉 Cooked mine in the oven  ;D Errm can’t remember how long for, but once cooked you cut all the skin and ears off and dry it out in a low oven for treats then you strip all the meat, eye balls  😛 brain  😛 etc…… makes lots of meals, fab!!! Keep trying to get one from my butcher but had no luck yet  :-\
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still laugh to myself when i remember the look on your face  ;D

[*Nat*]

Lol whenever someone mentions pigs heads I think of you  ;D  😀  :-*

[kerrie and stan]

[quote author=Balmy Bali link=topic=10734.msg205625#msg205625 date=1205439801]
What Island  ???  ;D

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sorry keep forgetting there are several island round england, im on the Isle of Wight

[*Nat*]

;D Just checking you didn’t mean the Isle of Sheppey cos that’s not far from me  ;D

[Foxisle_crazy]

Here some bones i got for £1.20!
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I put the kettle in so you could see the size!  😀

[xtine]

cor that middle one is a whopper  😮

nice one Laura  ;D

[SuzAndTheDiva]

lol thats how big the marrow bones I got Honey were – she made short work of them  😀 Got to go to the butchers soon, need some more bones.

[kerrie and stan]

wow they are huge, bet she had fun munching them  ;D

[SuzAndTheDiva]

Got these for 30p today – for all of them  ;D

Bev what sort of bones are they?

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