Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2022

Everybody Gets a Share (Doggy Delight)

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Mercy  Haku  My husband’s insistence on keeping the gristly bits of the cow sure paid off for the dogs. They’ve been chewing on these shinb...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Meat Math, Bovine Edition (GRAPHIC)

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Not a very good picture, but that is a 40 quart stockpot, with  substantially less than half of a freshly butchered steer’s head submerged ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

DQ43 (???) Meat Math 2020

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One day blends into another. I can’t believe it’s been over 40 days of quarantine. Insanity. Anyhoo.  Tomorrow is Paloma’s birthday. She’s ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Porksicles (Deep Bedding)

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After a prolonged, unseasonable warm spell in January, we experienced a brief, seasonable cold snap last week. Five or six days of tempe...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Piggy Piggy (More Pork)

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 Paloma and the Pig  Two new pigs have arrived on the farm. We weren't looking for pigs; we still have plenty of pork left in the freeze...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Beef Abundance (Simple is Good)

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Summer is drawing to a close - not that you'd know it by the weather. Today, September first, it was 85 degrees and sunny. This is somet...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Meat Math 2017

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This year's horrible pigs (all pigs are horrible but this year's were worse than most) have been converted into meat, and the meat...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Meat Madness (Weighing Options)

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I have a neighbor who raises beef cattle, Mr. B., and we have bought beef from him several times in the past. It's wonderful stuff, he...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Slaughter Season (More Meat Math)

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This week we made a lot of room on the farm. Most notably, the pig (seen here a couple of months ago) met his fate, at the capable hands of ...