Whole Tenderloin with Cherry Port Sauce
Whole Tenderloin with Cherry Port Sauce This recipe works for whole tenderloin or medallions. It’s the meal I usually serve at special occassions; Christmas, New Years, but I also pull this recipe out when we’ve had a particularly tough week and we need a...Traditional Bone Broth
Traditional Bone Broth Broth is one of those foods that have been around for centuries and due to our overly busy schedules we have let fall by the wayside, imagining hours of straining and stirring. Nothing could be further from the truth. Stock making can be an easy...Yogurt
Yogurt 1 quart milk 2 TB yogurt culture (Starter, yogurt from a previous batch or store bought yogurt ) · Heat milk in a saucepan over a low flame until it reaches about 110° Fahrenheit / 43º Celsius to 180°F for thicker yogurt. · Bring temperature back down to 110°.·...Lamb Stew
Lamb Stew
Get Grilling!
This weekend is the time for grilling and we’ve had some requests to provide a few grilling tips for your River Cottage Farm Grass Fed steaks. Cooking over a live flame puts on a good show, and grilling steaks is a cakewalk once you’ve done it more than once. At...
Our Beef, Lamb and Chicken – Back in Stock
Good Meat Comes to Those Who Wait They say that when it rains, it pours and today we are about to get drenched. Yesterday we received calls from our beef, lamb and poultry abattoirs that all of our meat is ready for pick-up. We took in 5 lambs, 8 steers and 75...
Narnia, here at River Cottage Farm
It takes more than four straight days of rain to keep me from my pasture walks in the mornings. I pull on my Wellies, step out onto the patio and with the deepest breath I can muster I bask in the beauty of our farm. Balancing my piping hot cup of tea as I unhook...
A Lesson in Cow Watching
Here is a picture of a cow, beautiful, healthy, and perfect in every way. To the trained eye of a cow watcher, this is a cow with a secret. Her posture is saying, “There’s nothing here to see, just me in Narnia, minding my own business,” but I’ve seen that look too...