Foreign meat cuts posters. Are you as interested in them as me?

A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to the city of Leiden in Holland to visit my friends Emma and Ronald. I wrote several blog posts about the experience and one of the most popular was about Emma and myself going into a Dutch butchers' shop and ordering some sirloin steaks. Having been a former butcher for a goodly portion of my working life I am always fascinated by how the shops in Holland, France and Germany look and display their products. Normally, if I am staying in an hotel I wouldn't buy fresh meat but, as it was, I was staying at their apartment and had promised to cook them steaks. If you want to read about my meat buying experience you can at https://mugofstrongtea.blogspot.com/2017/05/buying-sirloin-steaks-from-dutch-butcher.html

The different names of the cuts of meat on the foreign animals always fascinates me and here are some from France, followed by more modern Dutch versions.

And now the Dutch ones.

Recently I was conversing online with my young German friend Thorsten and we were both barbecuing or grilling a steak for our evening meal. It was an enjoyable conversation with me on the outskirts of Nottingham and he on the outskirts of the German city of Stuttgart.

Thorsten's hufte beef steak with sweetcorn, roast potatoes, bread and aioli.

My rib eye steak with new potatoes, peppercorn sauce and dandelion leaves.

 

He posted me some German meat cuts posters and the white lamb one at the bottom is from Austria showing some slightly different names for the cuts.

New Rachel Khoo DVD. Terribly over excited

Yes!!!  (or should I say "ja") a DVD by Rachel Khoo has just been released on 24th April  and hot off the press I have just ordered my copy through Amazon. I am totally over excited!

OK so the title Rachel Khoo - Europa in meiner Küche is in German but it is possible to play an English language version too. In the DVD you can join Rachel in her travels across Europe where she discovers new flavours and comes up with ever more new cooking ideas. On her Twitter account Rachel jokes that you can even hear her voice dubbed in German if you want. Ich freue mich sehr darauf! I'm really looking forward to that!

I've been loving Rachel's recent book Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook so much so that I have nearly worn out the book spine and ribbon and I am bursting with excitement for this DVD to come through my letterbox soon. Like many Rachel Khoo fans worldwide I think that it would be fantastic to have The Little Paris Kitchen: Classic French recipes with a fresh and fun approach in a DVD format too. This is a BBC DVD so hopefully there will be more titles on the way if this proves popular. I see no reason why not personally.

                                                                          

PS ignore the funny little white squares that appear after the books and DVD title. I am not so clever with html to get rid of them. The links still work.  Phil x