Our Traditional Lamb Order

It's that time of year: our local lamb producers the Bottamines of Les Effes have their boxes of meat available. Susan has a standing order for a side of lamb, and went to the farm yesterday to collect it. As ever it's vacuum packed and ready to use. What amazes me is that prices haven't increased - 7.3 kilograms cost €117 in 2021, this year 7.06 kilograms cost €111.99. It's excellent meat, and the box usually lasts us a year (with judicial meat consumption). In fact the weekend before we left for Australia we had the leg of lamb from last year's order - and very nice it was too!

When I was a boy in Australia my parents used to buy half a lamb (hoggett, actually) and it would last 6-8 weeks. But then they were feeding three growing children, and hoggett was the cheaper option.