Chris told me to write my email about something that happened to him with our pork chops this past weekend. He thought you would appreciate the warning! It was a normal week-night of going through the list of possibilities for dinner and Chris said "how about some pork chops?" I responded with an enthusiastic, "YES PLEASE!!!!!" If you have ever had heritage breed, pastured pork chops you know why I was so excited. This past year, the butcher we used left a 1.5" rind of fat along the edge of each chop. I love my pork chops cut this way, because of the crispy buttery flavor it adds to the cut and the added value of rendered pork fat left...
Woah, Spring has started off with a bang here! How's it going for you? We all got quite sick two weeks ago, and then I was directly plunged into the Spring-grant-cycle-deadline madness, we started lambing, we got the biggest snowstorm of the year so far, and now we are getting highs in the 50s. Pete already can't wait to go out at see the "babies" every day! What a wild couple of weeks! I feel like our life is being held together by broth... Do you ever feel that way? It took my stomach quite a long time to get back to being ok with eating meals again, so having a constant batch of broth to sip on and make...
My email is really short this week because it has been a jam-packed few days. I wanted to let you know that my good friend Helen, of Sybille Creek Farms in Wheatland, came to visit me and she brought a bunch of her farm-fresh eggs with her! Woooohoooo!!!! That means we have eggs, milk, corned beef kits, and a few other exciting goodies for sale this week! Order your eggs and milk by responding to this email (minimum $20 for free delivery in Laramie). Eggs are $7/dozen and Milk is $6/half-gallon. Our new All-Natural Lamb Sticks are selling quick! I'm down to 2 cases and everyone who has tried them has loved them so far! Snag yours here before they are...
Snack sticks are probably our best selling item, but cured meat snacks are one of those things that a lot of folks try to avoid or at least minimize in their diet. Personally, I have noticed that consuming nitrates seems to sap my energy. Over the past few years I have heard that nitrates are bad from various sources, but I have been hesitant to give up some of my absolute favorite foods. Ugh! life without bacon just seems bleak to me. I guessed it must take more energy to metabolize nitrates or something... so I looked into some studies to figure out why this might be, and what I could do about it (with my fingers crossed that bacon...
There have been some funny posts going around about how all girls want for Valentines Day is a goat, or some chickens, a bouquet of gardening tools, or even some more skulls for their skull collection. Have you seen them? The funniest one of these I saw was a case for getting your wife a milk-cow. The narrator's argument was that, in the long run, getting your wife a milk cow translates into fresh butter, home-made ice-cream, cheese, and fresh home-baked bread, biscuits, and more! How can a guy go wrong!? Unfortunately, Chris has made the possibility of having a milk cow, one of his rules... ABSOLUTELY NO MILK COWS! This is probably because we had the lovely couples-farm-counseling...
