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Pete and I want to recommend our favourite meat supplier, British farmer Paganum, and have therefore added him to our recommended suppliers page and also decided to create and feature adverts for him on our recipe pages.

We don't get any payment or commission, we're just genuine fans and want to share the love.

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Thanks for that, do they deliver and if so how far ?

Steve

All over UK.

Shipping free for orders over ?40 and of course, you have the 10% discount code for MK readers, see the News page (or the Advice> Suppliers page)

The 10% discount looks good to me! I hate buying anything on the internet when I can see there is a discount/voucher/promotion box and I don't have a code to put in!

Do you think they would let a few lambs grow into sheep (or at least hogget) especially for Mamta's Kitchen readers!

winton

Winton, the best thing is that because you are buying the meat direct from the farmers (mainly Chris but also a handful of other neighbouring farmers too) you can discuss what you want and they can supply to suit.

Whether that means different cuts to normal or extra bones for stock or even seeing if they can provide hoggett. I'd definitely call and talk to Chris.

Tell him Kavey told you to phone, if you like, though you don't need to - he's very accommodating to everyone!

Sounds great....glad you are supporting your local farmer, and cutting out the masses of middle men that take all your money and give the farmer a pittence. Wonder how much he'll charge for a kilo of steak to Australia!

I just ordered my Christmas day rib of beef from Paganum, plus some extra goodies for the freezer.

Don't forget there's a discount code for our readers (we don't get any commission or anything, just want to support and promote really good quality British produce and a lovely farmer).

You can read more under the Advice > Suppliers menu.

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Well done, Kavey and Pete!

I'm not in the UK, so I won't be using this service, but it's a good thing.

You have beef for Christmas? Is that just a personal preference? Sadly, we won't be doing a roast goose this year (my wife has gone off it), but we'll have guineau fowl. There's also an Indian (Parsi) dish with apricots, which I find very festive, because of the colour.

Phil

Yep, just preference.

Neither of us like turkey.

We do enjoy chicken but we eat roast chicken fairly regularly and the rib of beef is more indulgent, though we have it through the year too, from time to time.

Kavey: we aren't keen on turkey either (too much dried, overcooked, flesh of turkey in my Scottish background). The French eat tons of the stuff!

Phil

Really? Actually, yes, I knew that but they don't really do it for Christmas do they? But yes, have often had dinde in restaurants there, often the volaille option in lower priced fixed price menus...

As a fellow turkey hater (it really is the only thing I "don't eat") all my romantic notions of French housewives wandering down to their local market to lovingly choose their goose are melting away!

Winton

Kavey: No, the French don't, I think, have roast turkey at Christmas time, but they buy lots of dinde in packets from the supermarket and, as you say, serve it in restaurants.

I don't think that many French people have roast goose on Christmas Eve: we used to do this with locally-raised, free-range, goose, so it's a shame that my wife has gone off it, since I can think of nothing more festive than a roast goose in front of a blazing vinestock fire.

Phil