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Years ago, when my mum had a Rayburn range, she had a large saucepan on the
hob. She used to buy whole lambs for the freezer and the joints, half legs
or half shoulders, would be pot roasted in the saucepan. She used to have
the breast chopped into strips. They were lobbed into the saucepan and
effectively deep fried in the 2" of fat in the bottom of the pan. They were
delicious hot or cold. I used to get bollocked for returning home from the
pub and scoffing the plateful she had left in the fridge, supposedly for my
dad's lunch the following day.

 

you aren't describing a gigot. A gigot is a leg of lamb or mutton, a word
used in English for centuries. It is either the entire leg or if the leg is
cut into half, it will be the lower, triangular shaped portion.

I know the cut you are talking about, a fairly recent introduction into the
UK I believe. SteveH might correct me on that. although it wasn't a cut I
remember seeing in Herefordshire when my grandfather was farming. I've
never seen it described as anything other than a leg steak.

 

I am as far as a frog is concerned. Go in to a boucherie and ask for a
gigot d'agneau and you'll get what I am describing - IME. You don't
usually have to specify a 'tranche'. Often found in their window cut
thus and described as such. Perhaps it's a Limousin thing.

Not in the UK, no.

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searching google images for "gigot d'agneau" gets both, although
predominantly whole joints.

 

Not a wealthy area, the Limousin, and possibly more cattle than lambs.

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I certainly wouldn't blame you!

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You're both right - the term Gigot refers to the leg, whether whole or
sliced into steaks.

 

Can't you just buy a bit of pork belly and cut it up?

Or do what I'm doing - stick the whole thing in a slow cooker and get
ready for heart attack heaven at teatime.

 

Certainly easy enough to buy in my local Sainsbury's

Ditto belly in large lumps which you cut up if you must. I like to roast
it whole with chinese spices a la Rick Stein

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Sounds divine.

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I've bought whole belly in Cosco where to my surprise the meat seems
to be pretty good.

 

My experience of Costco meat is that it is both good quality and good value.

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My local Tesco Metro has them and I can order them from Tesco, Sainsbury or
Asda home shopping. Even the Lidl next to the Uni buildings stock them.

Slow roast belly has been voted "best British dish" fairly recently and TV
chefs are always doing it, so I'm surprised it's not available in your neck
of the woods.

Got a piece of brisket for tomorrow. It'll be in the slow cooker later with
some veggies & beef stock. Should be nice & tender by tea time tomorrow.

 

Google the contents of the fridge for a recipe? Now there's an
interesting thought.
<looks in fridge>
Beer, wine, eggs, cheese, yoghurt, cream, smoked albacore, 10
different veggies, 38 different condiments/sauces.
urm, mebbe not.

 

Heathen. Prolly think the same of sex, too.

 

Well tehy certainly do a Waitrose belly joint.

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/me wonders if salad cream and mint sauce sandwiches would be returned

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It was.

Not sure eating the whole thing by myself was a great idea though.

 

Meh. Be good tomorrow

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