A few months ago Mike had discovered a butcher he liked the look of near my brothers house in Lenzie. A most wonderful T-bone steak had been purchased but it is hardly local to us. This last week, and who knows why, I had got to remembering stories a friend of mine had been telling about camping trips with a bunch of his mates, entitled "hairy man weekends". They fished, camped, drank a few beers and generally hung out, free of....... well, the rest of the world I guess. Sounded like a great idea, not least for the fact that that one of them was a butcher so the BBQ was of the highest quality. Well, middle age and caravans appear to have struck and there have been no more stories of the hairy men but off we set yesterday to find the aforementioned butchers in Limekilns.
Oh my goodness!! I suggested Mike just went in and had a look because two kids in a small butchers? I am not sure why but two minutes later we were all in that little shop. Mike was taken in the back to have a look at his T-bone steak, still in situ and ready in two weeks. The two men in the store, passionate about their trade, taught us and entertained us for twenty minutes, all of us. They listened to the kids, answered all our questions and more. They sell local sourced, fresh produce. Their steak pies are famous and their sausages are the real deal. You know that cos they are all different shapes and sizes. Venison, guniea fowl, lamb chops to name but a few things on display. We talked about folks we knew in common, where their different meats come from, why when your fry their bacon you do not end up boiling it in the frying pan as it is not shot full of water. We left the store feeling like we had made a couple of friends, our T-bone steak ordered for two weeks time and a handful of venison and sweet chilli sausages given to us as a gift.
And the sausages ............... they were so good!
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John is great and his burgers and sausages and steak pies are all pretty fab. Order steakpie early for new year!! Pity about the hairy man weekends being disbanded.......
Adam is just glad you have pics of sausages on your site. We are not sure we could be related anymore if you swore off meat. b
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