Tag Archives: Pork

Pig’s trotters in milk

I’ve found an intriguing Spanish recipe for pig’s trotters in milk that I think I’ll have to try next time I pull a bag of troters from the freezer. The subtle sweet-savoury combination in this dish probably dates back to medieval times. The sauce can be used just as successfully with other white meats such [...]

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Roast pork with sage and onion stuffing

I’ve just come inside after mowing grass all afternoon to put the dinner on to cook. It’s in the oven now and rich smells are already pervading the house. So what are we having? Roast Berkshire pork with sage and onion stuffing.

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The joys of selling pork

I’ve been inside waiting for a phone call from the abattoir’s delivery driver to say the lorry was parked up on the other side of the valley and waiting for me to collect our boxes of butchered Berkshire pork. The phone did ring, but it wasn’t the driver. It was my sales contact at the [...]

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One of our boxes of butchered Berkshire pork.

Pedigree Pork available

We have three Berkshire pigs going for slaughter on Thursday, 12 May. We may have one or two boxes of butchered Berkshire Pedigree Pork available for £160 from 19 May if existing orders aren’t confirmed and backed by £20 deposits before the pigs go to the abattoir. Each box will contain a butchered half pig, with [...]

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Prices can’t stay lower than costs for long

Many potential customers continue to argue that weaner and pork prices should not be affected by rising input costs, saying that we should absorb any cost rises and only charge a price the “the market has set”. So I was very interested to come across a post on Farmers Weekly Interactive’s Arigbusiness blog that clearly [...]

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