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[11 Jan 2009 | 4 Comments | 1,540 views]
Cooking Pigs Cheeks

A couple of months ago the wife mentioned to me she’d seen Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall cook some pigs’ cheeks on his River Cottage show. I’m always up for a culinary challenge so I went down to my local butchers to see if I could source some. That proved to be a little trickier than I thought. It transpired that obscure meat cuts like this weren’t available as they are reserved for restaurants and aren’t generally for sale to the general public (due to low demand I guess). So I had to …