04/06/2026
One of my go to university meals: lamb shoulder buried in cous cous, from one of the early Jamie Oliver books. We’d regularly have a student house outing to Sainsburys on a Sunday evening to buy whatever had been heavily discounted (lamb shoulders and £1 whole salmon featured heavily). We’d then stay up until the early hours cooking, listening to records and playing videogames. Not much has changed.
I hadn’t made this in decades, but Ute (who does the café flowers) wasn’t sure what to do with a lamb shoulder she’d had in the freezer for a couple of years, and I was more than happy to cook one without having to take out a new student loan. Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to thrash her and Peter at International Superstar Soccer 98.
No lamb shoulders in the café this weekend but we do have lamb & beef kebabs with homemade labneh and mango & lemon pickle. We also have chicken kabsa, roasted aubergines, Yemeni potatoes, tahini and yoghurt sauce (the best!), herb salad, black eyed bean falafels and lots more.
