Abel & Cole - Do meat too!!

A few posts ago I wrote a review on some organic fruit and veg that I received from Abel & Cole to try. Well this is a review on some of their organic meat products.......

Again I awoke on Friday morning to discover this parcel on our back door step, it was neatly wrapped up in RE-USABLE ice packets inside a Styrofoam box. (These are to be returned to be re-used....how clever) Inside the box there were: A rolled joint of pork and some lamb cutlets.

Just look at the joint of pork, sorry if there are any vegetarians reading this :/ I have to be honest from the start I have never really been a lover of pork or lamb so this was a really good test for me, Chris LOVES lamb and pork and whines at every given moment that I never buy him any so were getting a review from both sides.

I loved the fact that they give a little info of where your meat has come from and how well the animals are treated (yes I still feel guilty that they were little lambs and piggies happily jumping/trotting around a field) anyway I am digressing....you know its going to be good if its been treated right, right?

OK so for this post I'm going to tell you all about the Lamb Cutlets (this is because we've eaten these, pretty essential for reviewing). I am noooooo Delia or Nigella, so I looked on the Internet for a simple recipe and then kinda winged it with the ingredients I had.

So:
4 lamb cutlets
Potatoes (organic)
Parsnips (not organic sorry A&C we've eaten all the last veg and ate what other stuff we had left)
Broccoli (again not organic, again sorry!)
French mustard
Garlic
Rosemary

Pealed and chops the potatoes (small enough for good little roasties), now I'm not going to lie to you, this is a review and has to be honest, the parsnips were a well know frozen variety :( sorry I did say I'm no Delia/Nigella, chopped the big trunk off the broccoli and broke into nice little trees.

I took the lamb cutlets and a knife and covered the front and back of the cutlets with the french mustard, left them to rest a little while. I crushed some garlic, picked some rosemary from my garden (no, really I did!) and put those into a roasting tin with plenty of Olive oil and put in the oven to heat up. Once hot put in the potatoes, then added the parsnips a quarter the way through. Next I cooked the lamb cutlets for approx 20 minutes, cooking the broccoli for 7 mins towards the end..........and this was the result.

For the meat lover in the house, Chris was in his element he loved them and me who cant remember the last time she had lamb loved them too. The meat was so soft and succulent, I definitely don't remember lamb being this good and Chris said it was one of the best lamb he'd had. They were so tasty, I really cant stress enough how tender the meat was it was almost melt in the mouth!

We both want to say a huge thank you to Victoria and Abel & Cole, for firstly Chris being ALLOWED to have lamb again and for me for being reintroduced to lamb and loving it. We will be having lamb again and I will be buying it from Abel & Cole, the quality of meat compared to my normal supermarket is superb and I would definitely recommend it. If you're going to eat meat, then it has to be good meat, well that's my motto.