Our Indian adventure is now nearly four months old. While we've adapted to many things, something I miss is the variety of meat I used to eat in the UK. Vegetarian food here is infinitely better than that available in the West (thankfully!), chicken is chicken, and tastes like chicken, but that's it. Lamb is available, but most of the time if it says lamb it means mutton. And when it says mutton it's not mutton as I know it (sheep, older than lamb) but a scrawny animal much more like a goat. And spin it anyway you like, I'd rather not eat goat. There are a few specialist butchers where I believe beef and pork are available, but you have to phone and order it in bulk. One, my freezer is really pretty small, and two, reverse engineering a phone conversation between me and someone selling large slabs of animal could lead to just about anything being delivered to my door four days later. Possibly still alive. What I miss is the ability to go into a regular shop and buy a regular amount of meat for a family meal. Especially sausages. You can buy chicken sausages, but they're what my Scottish mother-in-law would call peely-wally and my Australian brother would call p*ss weak*. And occasionally there's bacon sausages, which have the consistancy of mechanically recovered meat. So we don't go there... What I dream of is a good, old fashioned, meaty British pork sausage. This week I found a source! Jor Bagh Steakhouse - still haven't seen steaks there but they have big meaty sausages and they're even reasonably priced! We all enjoyed dinner (sausages, fried onions, cauliflower and broccoli au gratin) supremely!
* or you could use insipid, if you'd rather
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