Last, we butchered up the rear legs and backstraps from my deer. I rather enjoy butchering… once the quartering is done, anyhow. Quartering, taking the deer from hanging as a whole to the primal cuts, is unpleasant to me for some reason. I can quite put my finger on it. It’s not really a gross [...]
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Butcher’s Introspection
Posted in Food Preservation, Hunting on November 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I love animals. And I hunt.
Posted in Dogs, Food Preservation, Hunting on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Someone recently said to me, “I love animals too much to hunt.” I hunt (I’m kind of a crappy hunter, but that’s beside the point for now), so I was a little flabbergasted by the implicit judgement in that statement. To me, hunting and loving animals is not antithetical.
I buy all my beef by the [...]
My day’s fun-work…
Posted in Cooking, Food Preservation, Gardening on August 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh, I wish I had more pictures of my creations today.
This morning, I headed to the Farmer’s Market with my big cloth bags. I left with at least 35 lbs of veggies and fruit! My arm was about to fall off on my walk back to the car. My big splurge for the trip was [...]
What I’ve been learning and doing lately…
Posted in Food Preservation, Gardening, Homesteading on August 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
EZ and I were up near Flathead Lake a few weeks ago. While there, we bought 26 lbs of Flathead Cherries and 5 lbs of Ranier Cherries. We ate a lot of them. Gave away some. Froze 10+ lbs. The rest became my first experience in canning. Honestly, it was scarier than it was difficult. [...]
