Time is whistling past & winter is rapidly making her presence felt, but I did want to look back to the warmer first weekend of September when we went to Meatopia - a festival of meat cuisine held at Tobacco Dock !Working in the meat industry this was part work & part a fun day out.
It was a gathering of well know and up & coming chefs all show casing the best in modern meat cooking - lots of smoking of meats featuring too !
We headed out in to the slightly urban grunge, atmospheric old warehouse clutching our "Meat Bucks" - tokens you had to buy so the individual stall holders didn't have to handle hard cash - and sampling our way around the diverse selection of dishes.
Some of the dishes were delicious, some trying too hard & just ending up as pretentious, some zinging with flavour, some traditional and some ultra trendy.
But on all it did prove the age old truth that unless you start with decent quality cuts, no about of fancy concepts or ingredients will turn it into tender meat (short of very slow cooking !!)
Some meats we tried were just plain tough and fatty & no amount of fancy ingredients could disguise this fatal flaw !
Still we had some favourites, enjoyed the buzzy vibe and all in all had a great time !
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