I started cooking tonight’s dinner this morning at about half past eight, before anybody else was awake, and most importantly, before any of the neighbours had hung any washing out to dry. Shor...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2018/04/smoked-and-slow-roasted-beef-short-ribs/
People have dried meat to preserve it for thousands of years. The practice seems to have arisen independently in both South America and Africa, with the two traditions cross-pollinating with the ...
So, it’s January, and it’s very, very cold at the moment. That means that now is the perfect time to cure some meat and hang it out to dry in a shed, outside of a refrigerator, without too mu...
So, I’d made this Vietnamese-style noodle salad with a rib of beef, and Tweeted a picture, and Rich asked me to write a post about it for his blog. I agreed (I was quite chuffed actually but do...
So, cold isn’t it? All of a sudden, those rolled pieces of brisket and the big slabs of pork belly in the butcher’s window don’t seem like such a bad idea. Nor do the ox tails, hanging in b...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2015/10/slow-cooked-oxtail-pie-with-suet-crust-pastry/
Hype cycles are the invention of a big American technology consultancy firm who use them to show the way very new types of technology move from ‘stupid idea, it’ll never work’ right thro...
A few months ago, we spent a weekend in Berlin, an edgy, intoxicating, graffiti-covered city tortured by its own past, the streets forming the canvas on which the horrors of the last century wer...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2015/04/beef-bourguignon-pie-with-homemade-puff-pastry/
“In his way, the meat cutter is an artist”. Here’s a wonderful little American promotional film from the Fifties, that walks through the process of butchering a side of beef into cuts suita...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2014/07/the-dawn-of-the-supermarket-meat-counter/
One of the many curious things I remember about my childhood is corned beef hash, an odd dish of potato and corned beef served up on those nights when mum seemed to have run out of inspiration. ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2014/05/how-to-make-corned-beef/
I was at the market the other day. I’d gone for some sausages, but left with a handful of pig’s ears (more on which later), some pork belly, a ham hock, a kilo of mutton and a huge tray of be...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2013/10/slow-roasted-car-grilled-very-big-beef-ribs/