How to choose between bone-in and boneless gammon, cook it ahead of the day, glaze it three ways and know how long it keeps once cooked.
Work out the right turkey size for your table, with servings by weight, crown versus whole bird, defrosting times and cooking times per kilo.
How to store, reheat and cook Boxing Day leftovers safely, with real recipes and quantities from our Leicestershire farm shop and butchery.
Bronze or white, crown or whole bird, free range or not. An honest butcher’s comparison to help you pick the right Christmas turkey, and the right weight.
A butcher’s countdown to Christmas: when to order, how much to buy per person, collection days, what to do on Christmas Eve and timings for the day itself.
A butcher’s honest comparison of goose, turkey and rib of beef for Christmas dinner: flavour, cost per head, cooking and what to do with the fat.
The two pictures above show one of our Pedigree Aberdeen Angus heifer calves in the same field … in one, she is stood on some tinder dry, dead, unpalatable grass, while in the other, she’s…
Pretty much every decision on this farm gets made in our Portakabin over a mug of tea. It arrived when Dad started Northfield in 1994 and it’s outlasted everything we’ve bought since.Sit in it on…
Every year, British Lamb week is celebrated the first week in September. Below highlights the different cuts lamb has to offer and those ones that we sometimes forget…
Tessa, Leo and Dom’s mum, who started the business with Jan, was a whizz at making this recipe. From her own words “this is an outstanding, delicious winter dish, absolutely worth any scraps of energy put in to making it”. The casserole itself, uses diced lamb and smoked streaky bacon to create a melt in […]










