Recipes & Tips
Get the most out of your meat with our delicious recipes, smart cooking tips and exclusive interviews on the 91¾«Æ·. blog.
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Love Pork 'One-Pot' Campaign
Love Pork campaign from AHDB is launched in October 2020 to encourage a new range of pork recipes, with a focus on the ease and affordability of pulled pork made with pork shoulder.
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Eating Meat on the Sirtfood Diet
The Sirtfood diet is very much back in the news thanks to Adele and her recent weight loss. The big celebrity diet trend a few years ago the Sirtfood diet lets you eat three steaks a week, as much chicken as you want, chocolate, red wine and coffee - what’s not to like?
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Famous people who started their careers as butchers
The celebrity chef is now well established in popular culture, but we are still waiting for celebrity butchers to ‘cut’ through to the mainstream. While working with meat is not for everyone, we’ve discovered it was career defining for some well known people across the generations...
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What Makes a Great Christmas Meat Hamper?
The Christmas season is finally upon us! One of the best things to give this season are Christmas meat hampers.
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Nice to Meat - Lee Stainthorpe (Head Chef, Vermont Hotel)
Lee Stainthorpe is head chef of the Vermont Hotel in Newcastle upon Tyne. Having worked under a number of celebrated chefs across the North of England over a 20 year career Lee is well placed to lead the catering team at this flagship hotel.
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Chlorinated chicken - a butchers view
Chlorinated chicken has been all over the news recently, and is becoming a hot topic in the Brexit debate. It looks increasingly likely that consumers will soon have to make a choice of standards over price when buying bleached chicken, so we thought we’d give our butcher’s view on the debate.
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Nice to Meat - Rachel Taylor (Body Transformation Story)
From unhappy takeaway regular, to fitter, healthy and happy, 91¾«Æ·mpany customer Rachel Taylor has a body transformation programme we can all be proud of.
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Why hanging meat makes it better
Hanging meat is really important to the quality of meat, and is the first and most important stage of good butchery. Find out what hanging is and why is it important for meat?
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Beef Cattle Breeds - Limousin
Many chefs and steak connoisseurs will tell you that the best breed of cattle for the tastiest steak comes from a Limousin. Find out why...