Meat! It's what's for dinner!

Let me introduce Wilbur!! Over the summer, we heard about an opportunity to buy half a Berkshire hog through Shannon and David's farmshare company, and after much deliberation, we took it! We got about 100 lbs of meat, including lots of pork chops, loin roasts, shoulder roasts, a gigantic ham cut in two, over 10 lbs of bacon, 13 lbs of ground pork, 10 lbs of fatback for sausage making, and a fresh ham hock and shank. Of course we had to name our piggy, so after much deliberation, we settled on Wilbur! Yes we're a little morbid, but c'mon, Charlotte was the true hero of that book, not the whiny pig.

So far, we've made pork chops a couple different ways, pulled pork, bacon in many ways (in fried rice, stir fry, and normal breakfast style), and used ground pork in bolognese sauce. We have been not eaten this much pork since we moved back to the States, and we've never had such good chops and bacon!! The meat taste is just so rich and has great texture.

So...in the horizon is some grass-fed beef! We obviously filled up our little chest freezer with Wilbur (above) but we recently received a free chest freezer from someone I know at lab at the same time as hearing about the beef, so we have plenty of space now! Since we didn't think we could eat another 100 lbs ourselves (1/4 of a cow), luckily I found a labmate who is willing to split the order with me, so we'll be welcoming 50 lbs of ground beef and steaks from our cow, Angus! Stay tuned!