Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Venison, Beetroot and Cranberry from Asda

I already did a post about my Asda swag, part of it was the ingredients for this dish.
Given the choice, I always go for organic meat, not for any other reason than I hope that the animal has had a slightly better existence than the other variety.  I'm not a big meat eater and would rather have it less often and stick to more expensive, kinder reared options.  The irony is that I spend more on a couple of steaks than I do on almost any single clothing item that I buy.
Asda isn't great for a selection of organic meat, I did find this venison though, and I remembered a friend of mine who worked in food standards and was pretty horrified by a lot of what he saw, telling me years ago, to always go for game since its market was smaller and quality always much better.
This is a simple dish, but really healthy and fine as part of the Find eating plan.
Cabbage base, venison steak, beetroot and cranberry sauce, with a small glass of red for optimum vitamin intake and digestion.





Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Asda Swag

It's not that I am a snob about supermarkets, more that I have an irrational fear of them, somehow in a Harry Potter Death Eater-type way  they suck out your soul when you step inside. This fear subsides the higher up the supermarket scale you go, normally because the posher they are, the smaller and the less menacing they seem.
Asda was always my nemesis, but the petrol works out £15 cheaper a tank and one day after filling up, I decided to go for it and look inside.
I bought these roses for £10, a selection of easter and birthday presents for between £1 and £5, some £2 glittery wrapping paper (although they didn't have ribbons even though the store was GIANT), a £2 cat collar for Miss B (she likes all things pink and sparkling) and a selection of mini wines 4 for £5.
Perhaps not your average supermarket haul, but I had to make sure that I didn't buy anything that could be found at the local village shop, and I still hid the bags in a box when I unloaded the car just in case the shop keeper was watching.