I am a former dairy farmer from upstate New York who has now moved to southern Maryland.

Monday, December 15, 2008

La la la la

"White paper packages tied up with string,
These are a few of my favorite things,
When the pig bites,
When the sow squeals,
When the cold turns me bluuuuue,
I think of a few of my favorite things,
Annnnd Then I don't feel sooooo baddddd"

George, the trucker, arrived at 8:00 AM and Cindy and Oscar walked up the tailgate very nicely. They will return home in a few weeks after they get their haircuts and makeovers. I have been really getting anxious for them to make this trip as my mouth has been watering for a nice fresh pork roast for quite a while, to say nothing of a good bacon sandwich. They also were starting to really get mean and showing a desire to have a bite of human on a regular basis, luckily they never got more than rubber boot. I have my homemade applesauce down cellar just waiting. I am not sure just where they will fit in the freezers but I will make room somehow. If I actually went out and hung up some suet for the birds that would help out, we got alot from the last cow but the birds don't seem to eat it well in the freezer.

Adding them to the beef and poultry, and hopefully soon goat, in the freezers we should not need to have tasteless store bought meat for quite a while. There are still some chickens to be processed, along with Goose and ducks, but goose is being invited into the house for Christmas, we need to do ducks before Jess leaves, as she likes duck, and the chickens need to be squeezed in there too.

3 comments:

  1. I remember not having a hard time AT ALL saying, "Mean old roosters who would fly at me with intent to kill... meet stewpot."
    Glad to know you won't be starving :-). How do you cook duck? I have only liked it from Chinatown.

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  2. How do I cook duck? I personally do not like duck, the girls do, they wanted the ducks, they will cook the ducks. I have my trusty peanut butter and jelly to fall back on, I don't want to be greedy and eat up all of their special treat you know. Really, I am just being nice to them.

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  3. Our fav is raspberry rotisserie duck (stab duck repeatedly with fork and knife, rub raspberry preserves into the wounds, cook slowly and serve with more preserves, therapeutic AND tasty) however due to my family being pathetic slackasses the ducks are too old for this and shall be cubed and served in assorted stir fry

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